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Kishor Makwana, Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), has been conferred the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Jan Seva Award 2026.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports named four winners of the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2024. Baljeet Kaur (Himachal Pradesh) won the Land Adventure award as the first Indian to climb five 8,000-metre...
Veteran Kannada actor Anant Nag will be conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2024. The honour, India's highest recognition in cinema, will be presented at the National Film Awards ceremony to be held in Kevadia, Guja...
Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer was appointed World Bank Group Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics on September 16, 2026. Kremer shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Scienc...
The Tata Sons Board has reappointed N. Chandrasekaran as Executive Chairman for a further five-year term, running from February 2027 to February 2032.
Chennai-born scientist Sethuraman Panchanathan has been named the 2026 recipient of the IEEE Robert Bosch Bueche Award, becoming the first Indian-American to receive it. The Bueche Award honours outstanding contributions...
Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjukta Parashar, popularly called the "Iron Lady of Assam", has become the first woman officer to lead the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)'s elite CoBRA commando unit. She takes...
National Engineers' Day is celebrated on September 15, the birth anniversary of M. Visvesvaraya, who was born in 1861 at Muddenahalli in Karnataka. He was the Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918 and worked on major infrast...
The Jury Committee has chosen 10 Lok Sabha MPs, 2 Rajya Sabha MPs and 4 Parliamentary Standing Committees for the Sansad Ratna Awards 2026. The awards honour parliamentary performance measured through questions, debates,...
UNESCO conferred its International Literacy Prizes 2026 on six literacy initiatives from six countries. The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize went to initiatives from Colombia, the Netherlands and Nigeria for multilingua...
Sudhakar Dalela, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, serves as India's BRICS Sherpa as India holds the BRICS Chair in 2026. Currently Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, he coordinate...
Veteran Tamil scholar and orator Solomon Pappaiah passed away aged 90. He taught at The American College, Madurai, from 1961 to 1994 and headed its Department of Tamil; under his leadership the undergraduate Tamil progra...
