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World Metrology Day - 20 May

World Metrology Day is observed every year on 20 May. Metrology Plays a Central role in Scientific discovery and innovation, industrial manufacturing and international Trade, in improving the quality ...

PM Modi Releases Book Series Written By M.S Swaminathan

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has released a two part book series Written by eminent agricultural scientist Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. The series titled M.S. Swaminathan....

IIT Delhi Scientists Develop Cheapest Respiratory Filter

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi developed cheapest respiratory filter, named “Naso filters”. The filter, which is ready for commercialisation, restricts entry of Up t...

Hassan Rouhani As President Of Iran

Hassan Rouhani re-elected as the President of Iran. He was elected as President for his first term in 2013. His resounding Victory came after a hard fought election campaign in which he promised to in...

Air Marshal PN Pradhan Appointed As Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff

Air Marshal PN Pradhan appointed as the Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Operations). He was closely associated with the induction and operationalisation of Embraer - 135 and C-130 fleets in ...

14 May 2017 Current Affairs Quiz

Vaishnavi Shone Won 2 Gold Medals In The First Asia Level Yoga Competition

Vaishnavi Shone a Coimbatore girl won 2 gold medals in the first Asia level Yoga Competition in Thailand. She was won the Junior Category (13 to 15 years). Overall 150 participants from singapore and ...

14 May 2017 Current Affairs

Current Affairs 14 May 2017 happenings of every day are covered here date wise. All types of current affairs like National, International, Economic, Science & Technology are covered in detail in this ...

Indian Men’s Team Wins Compound Gold In World Cup Archery

The Indian Men’s Compound archery team Abhishek Verma, Chinna Raju Sridhar and Amanjeet Singh won compound gold at World Cup Stage -1 championships held in Shanghai, China. ...

ICT4D Conference Held In Hyderabad

The ninth annual ICT4D Conference was held in Hyderabad. It was held May 15 to 18, 2017. Around 800 delegates from 74 countries were participated in the conference. ...

India Ranks At 154, Below Sri Lanka And Bangladesh, On Health Care Index

India has Ranked 154th among 195 countries on health care Index in Lancet Medical Journal’s report titled “Global Burden of Disease”. Performance of countries was assessed for a period of 25 yea...

Japan’s Softbank Invests Rs. 9,000 crore In Paytm

Japan’s Softbank invested 1.4 billion (over Rs.9,079 crore) in digital payments platform paytm. This is the largest fund investment by a single investor in an Indian start-up and also Softbank’s l...

Pune Doctors Successfully Perform Country’s First Uterus Transplant

A team of Pune doctors successfully performed country’s first uterus transplant on a 21 year old Solapur woman on 18th of May. Since birth the woman has been suffering from congenital absence of ute...

Scientists Discover First Natural Human Antibodies Against Ebola Virus

A team of scientists from United States of America discovered a possible cure of Ebola Viruses. They have discovered the first natural human antibodies that are capable of neutralizing and protecting...

Pranay Varada Wins National Geographic Bee Contest

A 14-year old Indian - American Student, Pranay Varada has won the Prestigious National Geographic Bee competition. He gets $ 50,000 in scholarship and other prizes. ...

Start UP India Summit To Be Held In Dubai

Dubai will host a two-day “Startup India Summit in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Consulate General of India (CGT) Dubai and Embassy of India in Abu Dhabi in partnership with Indian Software pr...

World AIDS Vaccine Awareness Day May 18

World AIDS Vaccine Day takes place on May 18, 2017. The day, also known as HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, is observed annually. HIV Vaccine advocates mark the day by promoting the continued urgent need f...

Indian Scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni Wins Dan David Prize 2017

Indian Scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni on 18 May 2017 won the Israel’s prestigious Dan David Prize 2017 for his contribution in the field of astronomy. He was awarded in the “Future’ Category whic...

Sanjay Gubbi And Purnima Barman Win Whitley Awards 2017

Two Indian Nature Activists Sanjay Gubbi and Purnima Barman on 18 May 2017 won the annual Whitley Awards, popularly known as “Green Oscars”, for their Works in the field of animal and bird conserv...

Mohammad Anas Breaks 400m National Record

Mohammad Anas from Kerala has breaked the national record in men’s 400 m race and won a gold medal at the third leg of the Indian Grand Prix Athletics Meet in New Delhi. ...