Category: General Knowledge
As of 2021, the top 10 richest people in the world are: 1. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, with a net worth of approximately $177 billion. 2. …
Get ready for smart rings! In 2013, 23-year-old Rohildev N established RHL Vision Technologies at the Startup Village in Kochi, Kerala, to work on touchless technologies. This was a …
First woman Anglican bishop of India Rev. E Pushpalalitha assumed charge as bishop of the Nandyal diocese at a consecration ceremony, on September 29, 2013. Rev. Pushpalalitha is the …
Cleaning up the lakes of India In 2012, 28-year-old Arun Krishnamurthy became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Rolex Young Laureate Award for Enterprise, for an ongoing project to …
Building a secular India Isaac Poobalan grew up in Kerala’s Vellore district, watching people of different faiths pray together in the Chapel of the Christian Medical College Hospital, where …
“Suicidal” birds In the months of September and October, hundreds of migratory birds that have never left Jatinga, Assam, drop dead suddenly. This mysterious happening takes place on a …
Red rain in Kerala Idukki and Kottayam in Kerala have received red-coloured rain intermittently for close to 30 years now (from 1986 to 2012), in the period between July …
First woman chief in an oil company In March 2014, Nishi Vasudeva became the first woman in India to head an oil company, when she took over the reins …
Only Asian in ITWA In June 2013, the then newly constituted board of the International Tennis Writers’ Association (ITWA), which has representatives from Europe, the North, and South Americas, …
Great women scientists Sunetra Gupta, a chemist, and physicist is a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology. Professor Gupta’s main area of interest …