Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2015, also known as CHOGM 2015 was the 24th meeting of the heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in Malta from 27 to 29 November 2015. The Commonwealth meeting was held immediately prior to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. The Commonwealth conference accordingly held a special session on climate change and global sustainability in an...

Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Malala’s advocacy has since grown into an international movement. Malala was born on July 12, 1997...

International Yoga Day International Yoga Day, is celebrated annually on June 21 and was declared to be internationally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on December 11, 2014. Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice or discipline that originated in India. Prior to the UN declaration of June 21 as International Day of Yoga, formal and informal groups of yoga teachers and enthusiasts celebrated World Yoga Day on...

Paris Climate Pact The 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN 1- Framework Convention on Climate Change was held in Paris in November-December, 2015. Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact called Paris Agreement to fight climate change. The “Paris Agreement” aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels...

Astrosat : Indian Space Observatory Astrosat is India’s first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory. It was launched on a PSLV-XL on 28 September 2015. After the success of the satellite-borne Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE), which was launched in 1996, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) approved further development for a full-fledged astronomy satellite, Astrosat, in 2004. A number of astronomy research institutions in India, and abroad have jointly built instruments for...