Published on: May 29, 2024
Snippets : 29 MAY 2024
Snippets : 29 MAY 2024
- ‘Made of Chennai’, a brand campaign by The Hindu, won in the ‘Best in Audience Engagement’ category at the WAN-IFRA 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide in Denmark. The campaign is an amazing project connecting people and the city via comprehensive touch points across various media. A testament of how powerful a media platform could be when it’s used in a very creative way
- The strongest earthquake to hit Italy’s Campi Flegrei supervolcano region in decades struck recently
- The Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) is a new gold-backed currency launched by Zimbabwe. The ZiG, now the sixth currency used by Zimbabwe, has been in circulation since April 5, 2024
- Indian-American astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni won the 2024 Shaw Prize for Astronomy, highlighting his contributions to understanding astronomical transients’ physics. The Shaw Prize Foundation, established in 2002, recognizes achievements in Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences, with a substantial monetary award. The prize emphasizes inclusivity and honors recent significant advances or outstanding contributions, promoting research excellence across diverse domains. Astronomical transients are celestial objects displaying rapid brightness changes due to violent phenomena, studied to unveil their origins and insights into broader astronomical phenomena.
- Professor Urbasi Sinha from Raman Research Institute (RRI) is part of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Distinguished International Associates (DIA) programme, focusing on ‘Technologies for the Future.’ The programme, running from May 2024 to May 2025, includes global collaboration with Professor Adrian Kent from the University of Cambridge and funding of up to £10,000 for collaborative research between RRI and Cambridge.
