- Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has retained his World Class Championship Title after defeating America’s Fabiano Caruana 3-0 in a tie-break contest.
- Marin Cilic beat France’s Lucas Pouille in straight sets to give Croatia an unassailable lead in the Davis Cup final.
- After a grueling contest, it was Haryana who came through as the champions of the 2018-19 BC Roy Junior National Championships, beating Manipur by a slender 1-0 margin.
- Indian Navy pilots Commander Vijay Verma and Captain P.Rajkumar have been awarded “Asian of the Year” award, jointly given to four entities, including the two Indians, by Singapore newspaper the Strait Times for their “death-defying rescue flying” during the Kerala floods and courageous conduct in the face of natural calamity.
- Sanjay Kumar, Founder and CEO of Geospatial Media and Communications were conferred “Global Geospatial Industry Ambassador” award by UN-GGIM (United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management) recently at the United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress held at Deqing city in China.
- India has 96 universities ranked in the QS World University Rankings: Asia 2020. Out of these 20 are new entries. The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, leads nationally at 34th rank, followed by IIT, Delhi at 43rd position and IIT, Madras at 50th. India has 31 institutes in the top 250 on the list.
- Secretary Department of Defence R&D and Chairman DRDO, G Satheesh Reddy has been awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Society for the year 2019 by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) London. He is the first Indian to receive this fellowship.
- Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on the occasion of 70th Constitution Day launched the kartavya.ugc.ac.in portal as a part of ‘Nagrik Kartavya Paalan Abhiyan’. Monthly essay competitions for students as well as other activities like quizzes, debates, poster making, etc pertaining to Abhiyan will be held on the portal.
- Uttar Pradesh’s government with an aim to preserve the endangered vulture population has decided to set up the state’s first vulture conservation and breeding centre in the fared area of Maharajganj district.
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