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Deepa Malik recipient of New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019

Rio Paralympics silver medallist Deepa Malik has been named the recipient of the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019 in recognition of her inspiring...

April 12, 2019

Japanese unveils name of its New Imperial Era ‘Reiwa’

Japanese printers have issued the name for its new imperial era which will be set in motion on 1st May 2019 as the public tried to make sense...

April 3, 2019

South Korea wins 2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey tournament

South Korea has won the 2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey tournament. In the final, they defeated five time champion India in a penalty shootout 4-2 at Ipoh in...

April 1, 2019

Kazakhstan officially renames its capital as ‘Nursultan’

Kazakhstan has officially renamed its capital Astana to Nursultan to honour outgoing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev who stepped down as President after three decades in office. The change was...

March 22, 2019

Kazakhstan renamed its capital Astana to Nursultan

Kazakhstan has renamed its capital Astana to “Nursultan” in the honour of outgoing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, who unexpectedly resigned on 19th March, 2019. The capital’s name was changed...

March 21, 2019

Nursultan Nazarbayev, longest-serving post-Soviet leader, passes away

Nursultan Nazarbayev, the longest-serving post-Soviet leader, has unexpectedly resigned as president of Kazakhstan after 29 years in power in a surprise public address on national television. But, he...

March 20, 2019

UK MPs to vote on PM May’s Brexit deal

Only two weeks are left for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in a formal manner. British Parliament is all set for MPs to cast a...

March 12, 2019

Former PM of Nepal Tulsi Giri passes away

Tulsi Giri (93), Nepal’s two-time prime minister and senior politician, has passed away in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 18, 2018. Born in 1926 in Siraha district, Giri started...

December 18, 2018

Renowned hindi commentator Jasdev Singh passes away

Renowned hindi commentator Jasdev Singh (87), who was the voice of Indian sports on Doordarshan, has passed away in New Delhi on September 25, 2018. He was a...

October 1, 2018

Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace declared by United Nations

The United Nations (UN) has recently declared the period from 2019 to 2028 as the Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace at the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in New...

September 26, 2018

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