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Fit India Champion Arjun Vajpai SummitsMt.Annapurna

Fit India Champion, Arjun Vajpai becomes the first Indian man to reach the su mmit of Mt Annapurna1.

This mountain, located in Nepal, is thetenthhighestpeakintheworld, standing at an elevaon of 8,091 metres(26,545)abovesealevel. Arjun accomplished this climb on April 17 and has now become the firstIndianmountaineertoscaleall 7 peaks that are over 8,000 metres high. It is worth nong that Mt. Annapurna 1 is considered the mostperilousmountainamongthe ones that stand over 8,000 metres inheight

Neera Tandon, appointed as DomescPolicyAdvisorinUS

At97

Former Lok Sabha MP Pandit Ramkishan was recently awarded thetleof“ShatabdiPurush”(Man of the Century) in New Delhi in recognion of his contribuons as asocialistleader.

Renowned scienst Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan passes away at68

N. Gopalakrishnan, the creator of the Indian Instute of Scienfic Heritage (IISH) and a former scienst at the Council of Scienfic and Industrial Research (CSIR), has passedawayattheageof68.

Mohammed Shahabuddin new PresidentofBangladesh

On 25th April 2023, veteran p o l i c i a n M o h a m m e d Shahabuddin was sworn in as the 22nd president of Bangladesh. 73year-old Shahabuddin's elecon to the presidency was unopposed in February2023asacandidateofthe rulingAwamiLeague.

Second term for Miguel DiazCanel as the President of Cuba

to serve as the most powerful man in Havana's corridors of power was confirmed by an overwhelming majority

Sanago Pena: Paraguay's NewPresident-Elect

OnApril23,2023,Paraguayheldits presidenal elecon and Sanago Pena,thehand-pickedcandidateof the conservave Colorado Party, that has governed Paraguay for mostofthepast70years,emerged asthevictor

The Picasso Celebraon 1973-2023:

Neera Tandon, an IndianAmerican, was appointed as the Domesc Policy Advisor in the Biden administraon This move was made with the presidenal elecon in mind, which is set to takeplacein2024.

Tandon's appointment is historic, as she became the first AsianAmerican to lead the White House AdvisoryCouncil

Socialist Pandit Ramkishan BecomesManOfTheCentury

Cuba's polical landscape recently witnessed a significant developmentasMiguelDiaz-Canelsecured a second five-year term as the President of the country With a parliamentary vote that had him as thesolecandidate,Diaz-Canel'sbid

ThePicassoCelebraon1973-2023 is an iniave by the French and Spanish governments to honor the life and work of the Spanish arst Pablo Picasso The art world c o m m e m o ra t e s t h e 5 0 t h anniversary of the passing of a l e g e n d w h o h a s g l o b a l l y disseminated symbols that are universally recognized, such as Guernica Several symposiums andexhibionsareplannedtotake place worldwide The major internaonal symposium “Picasso in the 21st century: Historical and cultural issues,” will be held on December 2023, at UNESCO in

Paris.

Virginia Norwood - 100th

Birthanniversary

VirginiaNorwoodwasanAmerican inventor and scienst whose contribuon to the development of the scanner has revoluonized the field of remote sensing. Her invenon enabled sciensts to record images of the earth from space and paved the way for the Landsatprogram.

VirginiaNorwoodwasbornin1923 and grew up in Los Angeles, California.

Chrisna

Koch - Artemis II Mission

In a significant moment for space exploraon, astronaut Chrisna whenfourhumansboardtheOrion spacecra for a trip around the Moon.Thisannouncementmarksa breakthroughasitisthefirstmea woman astronaut will be in the realm of the Moon, breaking a barrier that was previously only crossedbymaleastronauts.

Koch was first launched into space in 2019 on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecra and has spent a total of 328 days in space, conducng six spacewalks, including the first threeall-womenspacewalks.

H a m m o c k Ko c h h a s b e e n announced as the first woman to circle the Moon The US space agency, NASA, has declared that Koch will be the mission specialist

TheArtemisIIflightisa10-day,2.3million-km journey around the moon and back. Chrisna Koch will be joined by astronauts Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, and Reid WisemanontheArtemisIImission.