UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (India)

13 of the 18 Biosphere Reserves of India are a part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, based on the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme list.

• Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka (2000)

• Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve in Tamil Nadu (2001)

• Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve in West Bengal (2001)

• Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in Uttarakhand (2004)

• Nokrek Biosphere Reserve in Meghalaya (2009)

• Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve in Madhya Pradesh (2009)

• Simlipal Biosphere Reserve in Odisha (2009)

• Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve in Andaman & Nicobar Islands (2013)

• Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve in Chhattisgarh & Madhya Pradesh (2012)

•  Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve in Kerala and Tamil Nadu (2016)

• Khangchendzonga National Park in Sikkim (2018)

• Panna Biosphere Reserve in Madhya Pradesh (2020)

• Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve in Himachal Pradesh (2025)

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CHESS GrandMaster

• 80th GM - Vignesh NR (T.Nadu)
• 81st GM - Sayantan Das (W.Bengal)
• 82nd GM - Vuppala Prraneeth (Telangana)
• 83rd GM - Aditya Samant (Maharashtra)
• 84th GM - Vaishali Rameshbabu (T.Nadu)
• 85th GM - P Shyaamnikhil (T.Nadu)
• 86th GM - L.R. Srihari (T.Nadu)
• 87th GM - A Ra Harikrishnan (T.Nadu)
• 88th GM - Divya Deshmukh (Maharashtra)
• 89th GM - S. Rohith Krishna (T.Nadu)

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Important Days & Theme (August)

7 Aug - National Handloom Day

9 Aug - World Sanskrit Day

10 Aug - World Biofuel Day
Theme 2025 - The BioE3 Way

12 Aug - International Youth Day
Theme 2025 - Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond

13 Aug - World Organ Donation Day
Theme 2025 - Answering The Call

19 Aug - World Humanitarian Day
Theme 2025 - Strengthening Global Solidarity and Empowering Local Communities

19 Aug - World Photography Day
Theme 2025 - My Favourite Photo

20 Aug - World Mosquito Day

23 Aug - National Space Day 
Theme 2025 - Leveraging Space Technology and Applications for Viksit Bharat 2047

23 Aug - World Entrepreneur’s Day

29 Aug - National Sports Day

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RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARD 2025

• Educate Girls (India) for Empowering Girls through Education.

• Shaahina Ali (Maldives) for Environmental work.

• Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva (Philippines) for his service to the Poor. 

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NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY 2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2025

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

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NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2025

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2025

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2025

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”

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