A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China named the 'Yilan' Crater holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years.
World Meteorological Day is being celebrated every year on 23 March to commemorate the coming into force of the Convention for the establishment of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 23 March 1950.
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the appointment of Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh as a member of the UN's newly established Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism.