US-based Stanford University's Professor Eric A. Hanushek and Mumbai-based Dr Rukmini Banerji have been felicitated with the 2021 Yidan Prize, the world's highest education accolade.
The Centre has approved the setting up of seven new mega textile parks, or PM MITRA parks across the country to help to further the growth of the textile sector in the economy and position India strongly on the Global textiles map.
Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.