Current Affair Category: Awards

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be conferred with the highest civilian award of the Commonwealth of Dominica, the Dominica Award of Honour. The award will be in recognition of PM Modi’s contributions to Dominica during the Covid-19 pandemic. “The Commonwealth of Dominica will bestow its highest national award, the Dominica Award of Honour, upon His […]

Booker Prize 2024 : Samantha Harvey has won the prestigious Booker Prize for her novel “Orbital”. The award ceremony took place on November 12, 2024. Harvey’s book is a unique exploration of life aboard the International Space Station. It reflects on human connections and the beauty of Earth. The novel was inspired by the isolation […]

The Nobel laureates in the economic sciences have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and exploitative institutions do not generate growth or change for the better. Where does India fit into this understanding? The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday awarded the Sveriges […]

Why in New?The Norwegian Nobel Committee has selected the Japanese anti-nuclear weapons organization Nihon Hidankyo for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian committee chose the Nihon Hidankyo organization for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and to demonstrate through the victims of nuclear weapons that nuclear weapons should never be […]

Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Known as hibakusha, the group is made up of survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It has been recognised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Nobel Committee Chair Joergen […]

The Swedish Academy has selected South Korean novelist Han Kang for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. Han Kang is the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the second South Korean to win the Nobel Prize after former President Kim Dae-jung. President Kim Dae-jung was awarded the Nobel Peace […]

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can […]

Why in News ?  Victor Ambros, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and Gary Ruvkun, a molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Hospital and a professor at Harvard University Medical School, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine after discovering microRNA . The microRNA heavily involves  in cell function. MicroRNA […]

Why in News ? The government will set up a ‘golden city club’ to give more states a change to rank top among those with the cleanest cities. Indore won the title of India’s cleanest city for the seventh consecutive year in 2023. The government also aims to clean 200,000 difficult and dirty spots during […]

Philanthropist and art collector Kiran Nadar was recently conferred “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by French Ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain. She was awarded for her contributions in the field of art, her commitment to providing greater access to culture both nationally and internationally.