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The famous Dabbawalas of Mumbai have sent gifts like Puneri Pagadi and the Uparne stole ahead of King Charles’ coronation. The ‘Puneri Pagadi’ is a headgear from Pune, while the ‘Uparne’ is a traditional stole worn by men during ceremonial occasions.

KnowALLedge Plus: In 2003, the then Prince Charles met the dabbawalas during his visit to India and was in awe of their accuracy, punctuality, and work culture. Two members of the Dabbawala association were even invited to the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005.

The Amazigh language of the Afroasiatic family has between 18 and 30 million speakers. Their activists have long campaigned for state recognition of their own calendar, with the people making up around 40% of Morocco’s population. Morocco has approved the new year of the Amazigh as an official national holiday.

KnowALLedge Plus: Berbers, also called Amazigh or Imazighen, are an ethnic group indigenous to the Maghreb region of North Africa. The calendar is said to have begun 2972 years ago when an Amazigh king defeated an Egyptian pharaoh.

India’s post-pandemic travel boom has entered record books, with 456,082 passengers flying on a single day, as 2,978 flights took off across the country on April 30. Data says, more than 37.5m passengers were carried by domestic airlines in just the first three months of 2023.

Lt Mehak Saini, Lt Sakshi Dubey, Lt Aditi Yadav, Lt Pious Mudgil and Lt Akanksha have joined the Indian Army’s premier artillery units. The first batch successfully completed their training at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai. Three of them have been deployed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.