1.) Eminent Agronomist, agriculture scientist and plant geneticist M.S. Swaminathan dies at 98 yrs. He is known as global leader of green revolution and is considered as main architect of green revolution in India for his leadership and role in introducing and developing high-yielding varieties of wheat & rice.
2.) Waheeda Rehman will be honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India’s highest award in the field of cinema.
3.) In 2023, the raking of India passport has improved to 80th position from 87th in 2022. Now on Indian passport, one can travel to 57 countries without VISA (visa free or visa on arrival facility).
4.) META company (the owner of Facebook) has launched new AI (Artificial Intelligence) model LLAMA2 to counter CHAT GPT and Google.
INDIAN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INCLUSIVE ALLIANCE (I.N.D.I.A)
5.) I.N.D.I.A was formed by the opposition parties to give tough fight to Modi government in upcoming state legislative assemblies elections and in general elections of 2024. This alliance till date has not finalized its prime ministerial candidate. Serious differences among the coalition parties have emerged in various state politics. It seems that this alliance will break in near future without giving serious threat to NDA alliance
