The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), and the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), Indonesia, are jointly hosting an 'ASEAN-India High-Level Conference on Renewable Energy (RE)'.
Veteran Nobel-winning virologist Luc Montagnier died in Paris recently. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS, along with his colleague Francoise Barr-Sinoussi.
Indian men's hockey team goalkeeper, PR Sreejesh was named World Games Athlete of the Year 2021. He became the first Indian male athlete and second Indian sportsperson overall to win the honour.