by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 22, 2021 | Persons in the News
A Maharashtra government school teacher, Ranjitsinh Disale, won the Global Teacher Prize 2020 on December 3, 2020. He is best known for embedding Quick Response (QR) codes in textbooks which was adopted by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)....
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 22, 2021 | Persons in the News
Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, popularly known as Kris Gopalakrishnan, was appointed as the first chairperson of the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) on November 17, 2020. Prior to this, Gopalakrishnan was serving as the chief mentor of ‘StartUp Village’, an...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 22, 2021 | Persons in the News
Renowned Urdu writer, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, passed away on December 25, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19. He was 85. He was one of the tallest figures in the world of Urdu letters and was considered a brilliant Urdu critic, poet, writer, and theorist. Faruqi...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 22, 2021 | Persons in the News
New York-based Scottish writer Douglas Stuart’s debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize for fiction. He received a £50,000 prize and trophy, a designer-bound edition of his book and an additional £2,500 for being shortlisted. Douglas Stuart is the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 28, 2021 | Persons in the News
Indian acting legend, Soumitra Chatterjee, 85, died on November 15, 2020, after testing positive for the coronavirus. He was an accomplished playwright, theatre actor, and poet, and was perhaps best-known for his work Apu Trilogy, consisting of three Indian Bengali...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 28, 2021 | Persons in the News
Football legend Diego Maradona died from a heart attack on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60. Diego Armando Maradona was born in October 30, 1960, in Lanus, Argentina. He made his playing debut with the Argentinos Juniors youth team, and formed a team consisting of...
