by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 8, 2023 | Miscellany
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Katalin Kariko from Hungary and Drew Weissman from the US “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modification that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 8, 2023 | Miscellany
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, announced the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2023 on October 3, 2023. This prestigious award has been bestowed on three scientists—Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, and Ferenc Krausz—for...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 24, 2023 | Miscellany
The 77th year of the Independence of India is marked by the inauguration of the new Parliament building, Central Vista, by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, on May 28, 2023. The prime minister performed ‘Ganapati Homam’ to invoke gods to bless the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Apr 9, 2023 | Miscellany
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) developed in September 2016 the National Indicator Framework (NIF) of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for monitoring the progress of SDGs at the national level. The framework is a consolidated list...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 25, 2023 | Miscellany
The 95th Academy Awards were held at the Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, USA in which India won two Oscars—First in the category of Best Original Song ‘Naatu Naatu’ from film RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt), and the second in the category of Best Documentary Short Film The...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 30, 2023 | Miscellany
Britishers left India in 1947. However, even today the world is of the opinion that colonialism brought prosperity and development to India. The fact that Britishers brought industrial and infrastructural development cannot be belied outright; there is another aspect...
