The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has been awarded the prestigious Leif Erikson Lunar Prize by the Husavik Museum in recognition of the space agency's unwavering commitment and significant contributions to lunar exploration.

The award celebrates Isro's successful Chandrayaan-3 mission, which has played a pivotal role in enhancing our understanding of celestial mysteries.

Chandrayaan-3, India's latest lunar mission, marked a historic achievement as it successfully landed near the Moon's South Pole on August 23, 2023, making India the first country to accomplish this feat.

The state government will host a pre-Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit seminar on chemicals and petrochemicals in Bharuch on Saturday, Additional Chief Secretary to the chief minister, Pankaj Joshi, told mediapersons on Thursday in Gandhinagar.

This comes ahead of the three-day Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, scheduled to begin on January 10 in Gandhinagar.

The seminar, centered around the theme ‘FutureChem Gujarat: Shaping Tomorrow’s Chemicals and Petrochemicals Industry’, aims to bring together policymakers, practitioners, academics and industry experts from around the world to formulate a roadmap for the future of sustainable chemicals and petrochemicals industry.

AP Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy formally launched the distribution of tabs to Class VIII students at Chintapalli on Thursday.

The distribution of tabs, worth ₹620 crore to 4,34,285 students, will take place for the next ten days across the State and MLAs, school teachers and Education Department officials will oversee the distribution in every mandal.

Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister said each tab is worth ₹33,000 including Byju’s content worth ₹15,500 and reiterated that investment on education is productive investment on future human resources.

The Sabarmati Multi-Modal Transit Hub building in Gujarat's Ahmedabad has installed a 700 kWp (kilowatt peak) solar power plant under the Renewable Energy Service Company (RESCO) mode.

The Sabarmati hub is a multi-modal transit building that will provide seamless connectivity to other modes of transport like railway station, metro, BRT and road transport with HSR system, a press release said on Thursday.

The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), the company that is executing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor, has become the first entity in the state of Gujarat to secure approval for Net-Metering in RESCO mode and received registration from the Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA).

India’s Hardik Singh and Savita won the 2023 FIH Players of the Year and FIH Goalkeeper of the year award, announced the International Hockey Federation on Tuesday.

Following a vote by an Expert Panel, National Associations - represented by their respective national teams’ captains and coaches - fans and media, Xan de Waard (Netherlands) also won the FIH Players of the Year.

While Dutch goalkeeper Pirmin Blaak also won the FIH Goalkeepers of the Year award, the awards for FIH Rising Stars went to Teresa Lima (ESP) and Gaspard Xavier (FRA).

Parliament passed a Bill on Thursday to make the process of allotment of title and registration of periodicals simple and simultaneous through an online system without the requirement of any physical interface.

The Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023, was passed by a voice vote in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. It was passed in the Rajya Sabha on August 3.

The bill replaces the Press and Registration of Books (PRB) Act, 1867.

Introducing the Bill in the Lok Sabha, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said the legislation will make the registration of periodicals a one-step process. The British era law involved eight-steps.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma inaugurated the G, H and I academic blocks of Royal Global University at Betkuchi at a programme held at the university premises at Betkuchi in Guwahati on Thursday.

It may be noted that the building has been constructed for a short period of eight months with state-of-the-art facilities and a beautiful facade.

The Chief Minister, during his visit to the university, also paid a visit to the 4th floor, where an unwinding place for the students has been created with a special emphasis on academics.

Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani today inaugurated National Programme on Anganwadi-cum-Crèches in New Delhi. In her address, she said, Government has planned to open 17 thousand creches all around the country and urged states and districts officials to identify groups of women construction workers and women farm labourers who can take advantage of the initiative. Ms Irani said, childcare is a big economic opportunity for women who work in self-help groups and form cooperatives. She said, her Ministry will provide a framework for such engagement where the safety of the child, nutrition and health needs of the child are ascertained whoever seeks to serve in the segment in a private capacity. The Minister said, women who right now run self-help groups and cooperatives can also look at running creches as an economic activity. She said, Government has closed the unregulated, unaccounted, unregistered institutes which were running in the country where children were violated. She also stressed police verification of institutes and individuals involved in it. 

To provide important information about MSP and agronomy to jute farmers, the Ministry of Textiles launched “Paat-Mitro” - a mobile application, developed by The Jute Corporation of India Limited (JCI) during ‘Jute Symposium’ here today. Smt. Rachna Shah, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles launched the application which is available in 6 languages.

The application can be freely downloaded from Google Play Store and all the functionalities are made available to the users free of cost. In addition to, the latest agronomic practices and Minimum Support Prices (MSP); Jute Gradation Parameters, Farmer-centric schemes like ‘Jute-ICARE’, weather forecasts, JCI’s Purchase Centers’ locations, Procurement Policies are also made available in the app. Farmers will also be able to track status of their payments for the raw jute sold to JCI under MSP Operation. Latest technology feature like Chatbot is included for their queries through this mobile application “Paat-Mitro”.

The ‘Jute Symposium’ was organised to create awareness and popularize Jute based technical textiles with special emphasize on Jute Geotextiles. The event was attended by representatives from different ministries, research institutes.

For more details, you are requested to visit www.jutecorp.in.

Sanjay Singh on Thursday became the new president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) with his panel comfortably winning most of the posts in the delayed polls as outgoing chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh gained indirect control over the sports body.

The much-delayed elections to the Wrestling Federation of India were finally held on Thursday with little surprise and the results and responses on expected lines as the supporters of former president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh swept into power with a thumping majority.

Sanjay Kumar Singh from Uttar Pradesh was elected president with 40 votes against seven for former Commonwealth Games gold medalist Anita Sheoran as 13 of the 15 posts to which elections were held were won by the loyalists of former president Brij Bhushan. The results meant Brij Bhushan continues to hold sway over the sport – the newly-elected president barely spoke and made Brij Bhushan’s residence his first port of call after his victory, where the former president held fort.