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Noted choreographer Saroj Khan passed away
Legendary Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan passed away.
Saroj Khan worked as an independent choreographer for the first time in "Geeta Mera Naam".
He gained popularity with films like Mr. India Hawa Hawaii, Chandni and Nagina.
He made his first move in the film industry as a child artist by playing the role of Chhoti Shyama in Nazrana.
The film "Kalank" of 2019 was his last film.
Prime Minister of France "Edouard Philippe" Resigns
France's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe resigned from his post due to a government reshuffle by President "Emmanuel Macran".
The President of France has appointed Prime Minister Edouard Philippe to take charge of government affairs, along with the formation of a new cabinet, to strengthen his green credibility.
Which will make their significant contribution to bring the French economy out of the Covid-19 crisis.
France Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will have a tenure of 2 years in the Department of Governmental Affairs.
Author V Pattabhi Ram launches his new book
Author V Pattabhi Ram launched a new book titled "Future of Higher Education - Nine Mega Trends".
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu released the book online.
This virtual event was hosted by ICT Academy.
The book is based on a survey of about 5000 teachers from India, which is an important part of the "SkyCampus" digital knowledge series.
New Zealand announces cancellation of APEC Summit 2021
The country of New Zealand announced the cancellation of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee (APEC) due in 2021 due to the Covid-19 epidemic.
The APEC summit in 2021 was to be held in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Virtual APEC Meeting of the year 2020 is being organized by Malaysia.
New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has formally announced the cancellation of the APEC Summit to be held in the year 2021, citing security reasons and keeping a close eye on Covid-19.
Professor Raj Chetty and Siddharth Mukherjee honored with '2020 Great Emigrants'
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddharth Mukherjee and economics professor Raj Chetty at Howard University were awarded the "2020 Great Emigrants" award by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for their efforts in the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic.
A total of 38 US citizens have been honored with the 2020 Great Immigrants Award this year.
Siddharth Mukherjee was given the Pulitzer Prize for "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" and has also been awarded the Padma Shri in the year 2014.
Raj Chetty has been awarded the Padma Shri in the year 2015, the John Bates Clarke Medal of the American Economic Association in 2013 and the Young Labor Economist Award in 2010.
IIT Kanpur Develops 'Mobile Masterjee' Platform for Teaching Setup
Developed a "Mobile Masterjee" platform to set up classroom teaching setup at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Through this platform, it has been launched with the objective of making education accessible to rural students and needy urban students by recording the lecture of teachers using smartphones.
College-universities of Uttarakhand state will connect with e-library
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand State, Trivendra Singh Rawat started e-Granthalaya in the libraries of State University and Mahavidyalaya.
So far 5 universities and 104 Maha Universities have been added and 35 lakh books are available online through this.
The main objective of launching this e-Granthalaya will be to provide books to the students through e-Granthalaya in case there is no book available in the school and university.
With this, Uttarakhand became the first state to connect colleges with e-Granthalayo.
Indore became the first state to use yellow dustbin for corona residual
To prevent corona infection in Madhya Pradesh, Indore Municipal Corporation has announced the use of yellow colored dustbin for corona residuals in the state.
Indore is also included in India's top-10 Covid-19 infected cities.
Indore has become the first state in the country to have separate dustbins for corona residual material.
In the state of Madhya Pradesh, the state government has installed yellow colored dustbin to decompose Covid-19 infected items such as PPI kits, gloves and masks.
Imraan Khwaja becomes the new President of International Cricket Council (ICC)
Imran Khawaja was appointed as the President of the International Cricket Council.
Actually, Shashank Manohar has resigned before his 3-year tenure of International Cricket Council, due to which Imran Khawaja was made the chairman of ICC.
Imran Khawaja became the ICC President in place of Shashank Manohar.
Manohar took over as ICC chairman in the year 2015.
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