Indian documentary wins award at Toronto film festival

• filmmaker Vinay Shukla’s feature length documentary, While We Watched, has won the Amplify Voices Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF-2022)
• Titled Namaskar! Main Ravish Kumarin Hindi, the “turbulent newsroom drama”

Vanessa Nakate appointed as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

• Vanessa Nakate, a 25­-year­-old climate activist is from Uganda

About UNICEF

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is a special program of the United Nations (UN) devoted to aiding national efforts to improve the health, nutrition, education, and general welfare of children.

• UNICEF engages in fighting for the rights of children all over the world.
• It also works to provide safe shelter, healthcare, nutrition, education, equality and protection from disaster and conflicts.
• Other areas the UNICEF works are providing vaccines, safe water and sanitation, HIV prevention in mothers and babies, protecting children from violence and abuse, early childhood development, adolescent health, etc.
• It also works in regions embroiled in humanitarian crises, to give relief and rehabilitation.
• Today, UNICEF works in more than 190 nations, in collaboration with other UN partners, and as a part of the larger UN system. It is not a specialized agency of the UN.
• UNICEF also comes up with research reports on various aspects related to children all around the globe.
• It received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1965

Rajnath singh on 2 days Egypt visit

About Egypt

• Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa.
• Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and literate societies.
• Egypt share border with occupied Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, Israel, Libya, and Sudan. Egypt shares maritime borders with Cyprus, Greece, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

Joao Lourenco being re-elected as the President of Angola.

• Angola is located on the western Atlantic Coast of Southern Africa between Namibia and the Republic of the Congo.
• It also is bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to the east.

Bengaluru FC Beat Mumbai City FC by 2-1 to Win Maiden Durand Cup Title

About Durand cup

• The Durand Football Tournament, commonly known as Durand Cup, is an annual domestic football competition in India which was first held in 1888 in Shimla.
• Hosted by the Durand Football Tournament Society (DFTS) and All India Football Federation (AIFF),
• the tournament is the oldest existing club football tournament in Asia and third oldest in the world.
• The most successful teams are currently East Bengal Club and Mohun Bagan AC, accounting for 32 cup victories over the years, with 16 wins each

First World Health Summit  on ‘The Pride of Homoeopathy’ was organized in Dubai under the supervision of Dr Nitish Chandra Dubey

About Homeopathy

• Homeopathy is a “treatment” based on the use of highly diluted substances, which practitioners claim can cause the body to heal itself
• The basic principle of homeopathy is that a substance that triggers a certain disease can also be used to treat that disease. This is referred to as the “Law of Similars”.

At India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan and Gujarat, BSF’s 1st female camel riding be deployed

About BSF

• The Border Security Force (BSF) is India’s border guarding organization on its border with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
• It is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) of India, and was raised in the wake of the 1965 war on 1 December 1965, And with Artillery Regiment and Armoured Regiment “for ensuring the security of the borders of India and for matters connected there with
  Indian Scientist Dr. Swati Piramal has been conferred with ‘Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur

Swati Piramal, Vice Chairperson, Piramal Group has been conferred the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour).

• The highest French civilian award comes in recognition of Piramal’s outstanding achievements and contribution in the fields of business and industry, science, medicine, art and culture, both nationally and internationally.
• The award was presented to her by H.E. Catherine Colonna, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France on behalf of President Emmanuel Macron.

Earthquake in Taiwan

• 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan
• The U.S. Geological Survey measured Sunday’s quake at a magnitude 7.2 and at a depth of 10 km (six miles).