The President presented the Padma Awards to those selected in 2020
- The Padma Awards are presented annually to those who have excelled in various fields such as art, social work, public welfare, science, industry, medicine, literature and education, sports.
- The awards will be announced each year during the Republic Day celebrations. Later, the awards will be presented at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Delhi. In that category, 141 Padma Awards were announced in 2020 and 119 in 2021. No awards for 2020 due to corona spread.
- In this context, the Padma Awards, announced in 2020 and 2021, began in two phases at the Presidential Palace. President Ramnath Govind presented the Padma Awards for the year 2020 at a function held yesterday.
- The Presidential Palace has announced that awards have been presented to 73 people at the event. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were also present on the occasion.
- The Government of Tamil Nadu has issued an order to set up an artist memorial at a cost of Rs. 39 crore on an area of 2.21 acres at the Anna Memorial Complex, Kamaraj Road, Chennai.
- China is building a space station called 'Tiangang'. 340 km from Earth. The first 450 km. This space station is being set up at a height. China has transported parts for this in several stages by spacecraft. Its core unit 'Tianhe' is already fitted to the space station.
- In this case, the three astronauts, including Wang Yaping, were launched last Oct by the spacecraft Sensho-13. Sent to space station on the 16th. The 'space walk' is the exit of warriors from a spacecraft or space station beyond the Earth's atmosphere for its maintenance and construction work.
- Wang Yaping, a 41-year-old female pilot from the Chinese Air Force, set a record by walking into space to build a space station. She thus made history as the first Chinese woman to walk in space.
- Prior to this, from 1984 to October 2019, a total of 15 women participated in space travel 42 times. Svetlana Savitskaya, a native of Russia, was the first woman to walk in space.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone for various national highway projects and road projects through video conferencing. The event was attended by the Minister of Central Road Transport, the Governor and Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
- Chand Dianeshwar Maharaj Balki Marg, about 221 km from Devikad to Mohal and 130km Sant Dukaram Maharaj Balki Marg from Badas to Tandel - Bondale with four separate lanes on both sides at a cost of Rs. 6,690 crore and Rs. 4,400 crore.
- During the event, the Prime Minister dedicated to the country the road projects and upgraded road projects completed at a cost of over Rs 1,180 crore for a distance of over 223 km on several national highways.
- These include the Maswat-Believe-Bandarpur (NH548C), Kurdwadi-Bandarpur (NH965C), Bandarpur-Sangola (NH965C), Tempurni-Bandarpur (NH561A) and Bandarpur-Mangalveda-Umadi (NH561A) road projects.
- The Indian Army in association with FICCI organized an online seminar on Military Logistics Production Projects on November 8, 2021. This is the 6th seminar to be held in 2016 since the start of the production process.
- Lieutenant General Santhanu Dayal, Deputy Commander of the Army, Mr. SB Shukla, Chairman, FICCI Defense and Space Committee, and Mr. Sanjay Jaju, Additional Secretary, Defense Logistics Division, were also present. During this e-seminar, the Indian Army released 6 new Phase II projects.
- Goa Maritime Meeting - The third edition of 2021 was held by the Indian Navy from 7 to 9 November 2021 under the Naval War College in Goa. This year's meeting was entitled "Maritime Security and Emerging New Threats: A Study on the Vibrant Contribution of the Indian Ocean Navies".
- The meeting was attended by naval leaders from 12 Indian Ocean countries including Bangladesh, Comoros, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
- Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated the first orientation program for young inventors on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Indian independence.
- A total of 278 undergraduate colleges across the country are currently receiving support under the Star College scheme, Dr Jitendra Singh said. By categorizing the scheme into urban and rural in 2018-19, an equal domain for rural and urban applicants in the country has been ensured.