India-based scientist, Mrityunjay Mahapatra has been appointed Director General of India Meteorological Department (IMD) on 4th June. Maha Patra will succeeds  the on role   Director General Dr. KJ Ramesh. He will be the Chief of the Indian Meteorological Department from August 1, 2019, his tenure will be 5 years. Mrityunjay Mahapatra – He is known for  the cyclone warning specialist  and people call him as Cyclone man for his cyclone forecasts.  The recent warnings and revelations given during the recent Fani cyclone came true, after which he was praised. Due to information in time many people are rescued. He prior

Global Gender Equality index was released on 4th June.In this index India is ranked 95th out of the 129 countries . Denmark is ranked first in this list while Chad is at the bottom. Global Gender Equality index are analyse on the basis of different aspects like , health, nutrition, hunger energy , infrastructure innovation  climate . India score highest in heath sector which is around (79.9), , hunger and nutriton (76.2)and in energy sector i.e. (71.8). On the contrary to this India also scores lowest in the field of participation (18.3), industry, infrastructure and innovation (38.1) and climate (43.4).