WTC Final:
Virat Kohli, who was handed the reins for the final Test match against Australia on the 2014-15 tour, is leading India for the 61st time in Test cricket.
Month: June 2021
** Rajnath Singh inaugurates 12 new roads in Northern, Eastern border areas
Speaking at the event, Singh paid tribute to the 20 soldiers who died in the clashes with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley on June 15 last year and said that “India is a peace-loving nation but its response to aggression has been resolute”.
** It’s a gharial! 45 yrs later, Odisha welcomes its first hatchlings
With the introduction of gharials in 1975, Odisha had become the only state to have all the three species of the reptile —freshwater gharials, muggers and saltwater crocodiles
** PCS results: Moga girl is the topper
Upinderjit Kaur Brar, a 24-year old woman from Smalsar of Moga, topped Punjab Civil Services (PCS) securing 898.15 marks.
PCS 2020 results were declared Friday. Abhishek Sharma from Khanna secured second rank and Sachin Pathak for Ludhiana was placed third
** BPSC CCE topper aims for UPSC Civil Services, wants to improve digital infrastructure
BPSC topper Om Prakash stresses the importance of multiple readings of the standard books rather than following multiple books for one subject.
Bihar
** The journey of the Thoothukudi Macaron: From Italian nunneries to the Coromandel coast
The final Kucini Tale tells the story of the creolised macaron uniting the Coromandel and Canara coasts, Portuguese and Muslim traders, Arabs and Jesuits, Italy and France, and, finally, our elusive lovers.
When the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama disembarked near Calicut in 1498, he inaugurated a new phase in history. The sea routes were opened up, and the Dutch, French, Danes, and British soon followed. The coastal enclaves they founded became hubs of cultural exchange. Their economic potential attracted many kinds of people, including merchant communities, from outside and within India. ‘Creolisation’ resulted. New, unexpected cultural products sprang up from this interaction between different languages, different gods, different ways of living, and different ways of cooking and preparing food.
** India’s Milkha, Milkha’s India
Milkha Singh emerged — like India did — from the ashes of a tumultuous partition to become India’s greatest running legends
** Indian-origin Justice becomes first person of colour to be nominated to Supreme Court of Canada
Justin Trudeau announced Justice Mahmud Jamal’s nomination on Thursday to replace the retiring Rosalie Silberman Abella, the first refugee and first Jewish woman to sit on the top court.