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52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Awards Overview
52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Awards Overview
- The 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was held from November 20 to 28, 2021 in Goa.
- The BRICS nations namely Brazil, Russia, South Africa, China and India were the ‘country of focus’.
- Opening Film – The King of All the World (Spain, Mexico) by Carlos Saura
- Closing Film – A Hero (Iran, France) by Asghar Farhadi
- Martin Scorsese (American filmmaker)
- István Szabo (Hungarian filmmaker)
- Hema Malini
- Prasoon Joshi
- Best Director – Vaclav Kadrnka for Saving One Who Was Dead (Czech Republic)
- IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) – Jitendra Joshi for Godavari (India)
- IFFI Best Actor Award (Female) – Ángela Molina for Charlotte (Paraguay)
- Renata Carvalho for The First Fallen (Brazil)
- Nikhil Mahajan for Godavari (India)
Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare: 30 November
Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare: 30 November
- The United Nation recognised Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare is held every year on November 30.
- The first Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare was held in 2005.
- The day marks tribute to the victims of chemical warfare, as well as to reaffirm the commitment of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to the elimination of the threat of chemical weapons, thereby promoting the goals of peace, security, and multilateralism.
Women outnumber men in 5th National Family Health Survey
Women outnumber men in 5th National Family Health Survey
- The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) shows the signs of a demographic shift in India.
- The NFHS-5 showed that the proportion of women exceeded men. There were 1,020 women for 1,000 men as per NFHS-5 report.
- This has happened for the first time since the inaugural NFHS was launched in 1992.
- In the NFHS-4 launched in 2015-16, there were 991 women for every 1,000 men.
- However, the sex ratio at birth for children born in the last five years showed marginal improved from 919 per 1,000 males in 2015-16 to 929 per 1,000 in 2019-20.
- The NFHS-5 report is based on survey work conducted in around 6.1 lakh sample households from 707 districts (as on March, 2017).
- NFHS-5 provides information on population, health, and nutrition for India and each state and union territory.
Saurav Ghosal becomes first Indian to win Malaysian Open Squash Championship
Saurav Ghosal becomes first Indian to win Malaysian Open Squash Championship
- Indian Squash star Saurav Ghosal has scripted history as he has become the first Indian squash player to win the Malaysian Open Championships.
- The second-seeded Ghosal beat Miguel Rodriguez of Colombia 11-7, 11-8 and 13-11 in the men’s singles final on November 27, 2021 in Kuala Lumpur to win the 2021 Malaysian Open Squash Championships title.
- On the other hand, the women’s single title of the 2021 Malaysian Open squash championships has been won by Malaysia’s Aifa Azman.
7th India International Science Festival (IISF) to be held in Panaji, Goa in December 2021
7th India International Science Festival (IISF) to be held in Panaji, Goa in December 2021
- The 7th edition of the four-day India International Science Festival (IISF) is scheduled to be held in Panaji, Goa, from December 10 to 13, 2021.
- The festival theme in 2021 is `Celebrating Creativity in Science, Technology and Innovation for Prosperous India’.
- The first IISF was held in New Delhi in 2015.
- The Goa-based National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), under the Ministry of Earth Sciences is the nodal agency to organise IISF 2021
- The festival will be organised jointly with the Departments of Atomic Energy (DAE), Science and Technology (DST), Biotechnology (DBT), and Space (DoS) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
