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National Mathematics Day 2020: Observed on December 22
- National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year on December 22 across the nation to recognise and celebrate the works of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
- The former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on February 26, 2012, declared December 22 as the National Mathematics Day to mark the mathematician’s birth anniversary.
- 2020 ensures 133rd birth anniversary of Ramanujan.
Achievements :
- In 1916 he was awarded the Bachelor of Science degree.
- In 1917 he was elected to the London Mathematical Society.
- In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his research on Elliptic Functions and theory of numbers.
- The same year in October he became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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New electricity rules give consumers across India the right to 24×7 supply
- Government Notifies New Electricity Rights of Consumers Rules, 2020 to give consumers the right to 24×7 supply.
