The initiative titled Let's Move and Celebrate is announced by International Olympic Committee (IOC) to encourage the players participating in the Paris Olympic Games 2024.
German writer Jenny Erpenbeck has been awarded the International Booker Prize 2024 for her book named 'Kairos'.
Jenny Erpenbeck won Booker Prize for her novel Kairos follows the destructive love affair between a 19-year-old student and a married man in his 50s who meet on a bus in East Berlin around 1986.
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International Booker Prize is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom.
Venezuela is the first country in the world to lose all its glaciers
As per May 2024, Venezuela lost its last glacier, making it the first nation in modern history to hold this unenviable record.
At least five other glaciers have disappeared in the South American country within the last century as climate change drives up temperatures in the Andes. ***
India signed a 10-year contract with Iran to operate the port of Chabahar.
Chabahar is a port located in Iran.
The deal was signed on 13 May 2024
India has been developing the port in Chabahar on Iran’s south-eastern coast along the Gulf of Oman as a way to transport goods to Iran, Afghanistan and central Asian countries, bypassing the ports of Karachi and Gwadar.
In May 2024, archaeologists of Serbia discovered a 7000-year-old prehistoric settlement.
This pre-historic is believed to be dating back approximately 7,000 years to the late Neolithic period, where this settlement is situated near the Tamis River in the Banat region of northeastern Serbia.
