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Indira Gandhi peace prize awarded to Sir David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough, who is a naturalist and broadcaster, will be awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2019. An international jury chaired by former President Pranab Mukherjee selected him for the 2019 prize. He was selected for the prize because he spent a lifetime of doing research to ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: David Attenborough • Indira Gandhi • Indira Peace Prize • Manmohan Singh
Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for 2019: David Attenborough
Renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough will be conferred the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2019. He was selected for the 2019 prize by an international jury chaired by former President Pranab Mukherjee. He is being awarded the prize for a lifetime of doing more to reveal wonders ..
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: BBC • David Attenborough • Indira Gandhi • Indira Gandhi Peace Prize • Indira Gandhi Prize 2019 • Pranab Mukherje
New Spider species named after David Attenborough
A new species of spider was named after the British naturalist and famous TV Broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. The species prethopalpus attenboroughi is found only on Horn island in the Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia. The other name of Prethopalpus is goblin spider. Earlier a fossil of a fish Materpiscis attenboroughi that existed 380 million ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2012
Topics: Arachnids • Blakea attenboroughi • David Attenborough • Goblin • Materpiscis • Oonopidae • Prethopalpus • Prethopalpus attenboroughi • Spiders • Spiders of Australia • Trigonopterus attenboroughi