Pulitzer Prize Context: A team of four Indian photographers from Reuters news agency — slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave — have won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for their coverage of the Covid 19 crisis in […]
Sivagiri Pilgrimage Context: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi participated in the inaugural ceremony of year-long joint celebrations of the 90th anniversary of Sivagiri Pilgrimage and Golden Jubilee of Brahma Vidhyalaya About Sivagiri: Sivagiri is a village in the Varkala municipality of […]
Civil Services Day Context: On the occasion of Civil Services Day, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi conferred the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. About: Every year on April 21, India commemorates Civil Services Day. […]
Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (AMASR) Act Context: The 100-metre radius around Centrally protected monuments where construction is prohibited could be replaced with site-specific limits to be decided by an expert committee, as the Union Culture Ministry was working on amendments to […]