PM Modi Announces $1 Million Grant to UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
- PM Modi inaugurated the 46th Session of the World Heritage Committee at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.
- India is hosting the World Heritage Committee Meeting for the 1st time which will continue till the 31st of July.
- The northeast’s historic Moidam is proposed to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage.
- It will be India’s 43rd World Heritage site and the first heritage of northeast India.
Assam’s Charaideo Maidam Nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Charaideo Maidam, featuring over 90 royal burial mounds, has been nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
- Located 30 km from Sibsagar, it was the first capital of the Ahom dynasty, founded in 1253.
- If selected, it will join Kaziranga and Manas National Parks as Assam's third UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Charaideo symbolizes the Ahom power, the place of origin of the royal Ahoms.
Supreetha becomes 2nd woman officer to be deployed at Siachen Glacier.
- Captain Supreetha C.T. becomes the 2nd Indian Army woman officer and the first from the Corps of Army Air Defence to be operationally deployed at Siachen.
- Shiva Chouhan was the 1st female officer to be deployed in Siachen.
- The Siachen Glacier is located in the Eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas.
- Operation Meghdoot - 1984
- Nubra River originates from the Siachen Glacier.
Abhinav Bindra Will Receive The Olympic Order by IOC.
- The International Olympic Committee announced the conferment of the Olympic Order on Olympic gold medalist Abhinav Bindra.
- Bindra will be given this honour at the award ceremony to be held in Paris on August 10.
- Bindra is the second Indian to receive this honour.
- Earlier, former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had received this award in 1983.
- India's Sports Minister: Mansukh Mandaviya.
PGIMER Chandigarh to Launch India's First Medical Institutional Museum.
- The ambitious project honours the vision of the late Sardar Partap Singh Kairon, the then chief minister of Punjab supported by the first Prime Minister of India, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru.
- Prof Vivek Lal - Director of PGIMER.
- Established in 1962 and granted autonomy under an Act of Parliament in 1967, PGIMER operates under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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