India’s fastest indigenous train, Train 18 has been named as Vande Bharat Express and it will ply between Delhi and Varanasi. Train 18 is an indigenously developed world-class train by ICF Chennai under Make in India.
Nepal’s Rohit Paudel became the youngest man to score a half-century at the age of 16 years and 146 days by surpassing Sachin’s record (16 years & 213 days).
Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh has been reappointed as the Regional Director for World Health Organization South-East Asia, for a second five-year term.
she is the first woman to become the Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia Region.
According to IRCTC’s Trains Cleanliness Survey, The Southern Railway bagged number one position for cleanliness in the country.
Duronto trains are the least clean among premium trains, while Tejas and Shatabdi trains are the cleanest.
Tamil translation of Andrei Makine’s “La vie d’un homme inconnu” (The Life of an Unknown Man) has won the Romain Rolland Book Prize for literary translation.