Narinder Batra will step down as the president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) at the end of his term to focus more on his job as the head of the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
A senior research scientist and head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, Cynthia Rosenzweig has received the 2022 World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation.
Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and author of the fundamental laws of nature, has received this year's prestigious Templeton Prize.
West Bengal State Education Minister Bratya Basu said that the state cabinet has unanimously decided to appoint Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the Chancellor of all state-run universities.