Sudha Prasad, a postgraduate zoology teacher at St Joseph of Cluny Matriculation HSS in Neyveli, has been selected for the prestigious Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program.
She is one of the three Indians selected for the program to be held in the United States and the only teacher to be selected from Tamilnadu.
The Human Resource Development Ministry has awarded the status of Institute of Eminence to the IIT-Madras, the IIT-Kharagpur, Delhi University, Benares Hindu University and the University of Hyderabad,
Odisha State Disaster Management Authority has won the IT Excellence Award, 2019 for its innovative conception by using information technology in the field of disaster management.
The “SATARK” (System for Assessing, Tracking and Alerting Disaster Risk Information based on Dynamic Risk Knowledge) application has been chosen for the award.
Prime Minister Modi will launch the International Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, USA on 23rd September 2019.
The international Secretariat office will be set up at New Delhi.
The Prime Minister announced that India would be giving a 1 billion dollar worth 'Line of Credit' for the development of the Far East Russia.
This is the first time India is giving a line of credit to “a particular region” of a country.
For the first time, a Hindu woman has been inducted into Pakistan’s Sindh Police Service after passing the provincial competitive examinations. That Hindu Girl Pushpa Kolhi has been posted as the Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI).
In January 2019, Suman Pawan Bodani, a Pakistani belonging to the Hindu community was appointed as Civil and judicial magistrate.