Best Destination for Romance' award given to - Kerala’s
Munnar
Munnar, a popular hill station in Kerala has won the award
for 'Best Destination for Romance' at the Lonely Planet Magazine Indian Travel
Awards 2017.
The award was conferred by Bollywood actress Diana Penty to
P Bala Kiran, Director of Kerala Tourism at the sixth edition of the event
conducted in Mumbai recently.
Water conservation campaign launched by - Uttarakhand CM
The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Trivendra Singh Rawat
launched a campaign on water harvesting and conservation on the occasion of
Water Day on 25th May 2017 in the state’s capital, Dehradun.
PM Narendra Modi inaugurates India's longest bridge
Dhola-Sadiya in Assam
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's longest
river bridge- the Dhola- Sadiya Bridge in Assam on 26th May 2017.
This is three
lane 9.15 kilometre bridge which has
been built over river Lohit, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, that links Dhola
to Sadiya in Assam.
Anurag Tripathy has been appointed as Secretary of CBSE
Senior bureaucrat Anurag Tripathy was appointed as the
Secretary of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on 25th May 2017.
Tripathy will serve the post for a period of five years. He is a 1998 batch
officer of Indian Railway personnel Service (IRPS).
JE vaccination drive in 38 districts of UP launched by - UP
CM Yogi Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a
massive immunisation drive in 38 districts of the state to eradicate Japanese
Encephalitis (JE) on 25th May 2017 from Kushinagar district.
Manchester United beat Ajax to claim - 2016–17 UEFA Europa
League title
Manchester United won their first ever UEFA Europa League
title on 24th May 2017.
For the Manchester United, it is the second major
trophy of the season and their first win for the season was the 2016-17 EFL
Cup.
Former Punjab DGP Kanwar Pal Singh Gill passed away on -
26th May 2017
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, former Director General of Police
(DGP) for the Punjab state, passed away on 26th May 2017 in New Delhi.
He was
popularly known as the ‘Lion of Punjab’ and ‘Super Cop’.
Fifth among top 10 global landmarks is India's - Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal has become the only Indian monument which is
ranked 5th in Global landmarks. First rank was grabbed by the world's largest
religious monument- Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
NASA's Juno Mission reveals - Jupiter's deep secrets
The first science results from Nasa's Juno Mission were
revealed on 25th May 2017 by National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA).
Juno captured the images which portray the largest planet in
the Solar System, Jupiter as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world with
Earth-sized polar cyclones travelling deep into the heart of the gas giant.
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