IIT Kanpur - Professor Mukesh Sharma of IIT Kanpur has recently been appointed as an honorary member of the World Health Organization's Global Air Pollution and Health-Technical Advisory Group
For the 2022-23 term, Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates were elected unopposed to the powerful UN Security Council as non-permanent members.
Noted Kannada poet, playwright and Dalit activist, Siddalingaiah has passed away. He was one of Karnataka's first prominent Dalit poets and was popularly known as "Dalita Kavi".