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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was awarded the Speaker of the Knesset Medal in Jerusalem. The medal is the highest parliamentary honour of Israel; the Knesset is Israel's national legislature. The award was presented durin...
Jatinder Mehra, a veteran of India's steel industry, passed away. He had served as Vice Chairman of the Metals and Mining Division of the Essar Group, one of the country's large industrial conglomerates. His long career...
B.V.R. Subrahmanyam finished his three-year term as Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog on 24 February 2026, and Nidhi Chhibber has taken additional charge of the post. NITI Aayog serves as the government's top policy...
The 475-year-old Our Lady of Grace Cathedral at Vasai in Maharashtra received the Award of Merit at the 2025 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The award recognises well-executed conservation...
Mumbai will host the Earthshot Prize 2026, founded by Prince William, during Mumbai Climate Week, the first time the event comes to the city. Every year the prize gives £1 million each to five innovators with solutions i...
David J. Farber, the American computer scientist often referred to as the 'Grandfather of the Internet', has passed away in Tokyo at the age of 91. Farber made contributions to the early development of computer networkin...
Ophthalmologist Mohan Rajan is this year's recipient of the Outstanding Service for Prevention of Blindness Award 2026, a recognition that honours a career spanning more than three decades, during which he has worked in...
Celebrated on 13 February, National Women's Day pays tribute to Sarojini Naidu, who was born in Hyderabad on that date in 1879. Remembered as the 'Nightingale of India', she was a poet, a freedom fighter and a political...
Ritu Tawde is set to become Mumbai's first Mayor from the Bharatiya Janata Party in 44 years. She will head the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India's largest and wealthiest civic body. The BMC's record budget...
Senior eye surgeons Dr. Haripriya Aravind and Dr. R. Venkatesh of Puducherry have been chosen for the Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award 2026 in recognition of their work in reducing blindness caused by cataract. The awar...
At just seventeen, Aditya Pandya has become the youngest male analogue astronaut from India. He earned the title by finishing a mission that simulated a lunar habitat at Dholavira, located in Gujarat's Rann of Kutch. Spo...
Indian-origin climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan has been awarded the Crafoord Prize 2026 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his climate science research. The prize, often called the 'Nobel of geoscience...
