by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 2, 2024 | Miscellany
The 2023 International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s Cricket World Cup, recently played in India, was the 13th edition of the Cricket World Cup. The tournament was held in 10 different cricket stadiums, all over India, between October 5, 2023 and November 19, 2023. Ten...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 2, 2024 | Miscellany
Rat-hole mining is the process of digging out coal by making small narrow holes, about 3–4 ft deep. Workers (mostly children) go into these holes to extract coal. This technique is used in a few hilly areas, especially Meghalaya. The National Green Tribunal (NGT)...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 15, 2023 | Miscellany
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 9, 2023, the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, popularly referred to as the Nobel Prize of Economics. This year, the prize is being given to Claudia Goldin, the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 11, 2023 | Miscellany
The Royal Swedish Academy announced the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on October 6, 2023 for Iranian women’s rights advocate, Narges Mohammadi. According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee citation, she has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 11, 2023 | Miscellany
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Norwegian author, Jon Olav Fosse, by the Swedish Academy on October 5, 2023. The prize was awarded to him for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”. Fosse is the second Norwegian...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 8, 2023 | Miscellany
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced by the Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences on October 4, 2023. It was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Louis E. Brus (Columbia University, USA), and Aleksey Yekimov (Nanocrystals...
