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India and Bhutan signed an MoU to develop Nalanda University at Rajgir in Bihar as an international center of excellence. The MoU was signed after...

Laxmikant Parsekar sworn-in as chief minister of the Goa after Manohar Parrikar who was called for a Union cabinet berth.Parsekar, 58, an MLA from Mandrem, administered the oath...

ICC has announced the ODI and Test Team of the year 2014. Indian Skipper M S Dhoni has been named as the Captain for...

 Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), one of the Fortune 500 listed Indian company procured whooping 5000 crore insurance cover for each of its 10 refineries....

Rajya Sabha MP and Former Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography 'Playing it my Way' was officially released in Mumbai. He gave the first copy...

Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was conferred with Japan's top national award 'The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers' for...

GOI has appointed Hasmukh Adhia, a 1981 Gujarat cadre IAS officer, as the new Financial Services Secretary replacing G S Sandhu.Adhia has been working as...

Thirteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center has opened for business — marking an emotional milestone for New Yorkers...

Senior Indian Audits and Accounts Service (IAAS) officer Rajani Sankaran took over as CMD of Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd (BHAVINI) after the retirement of...

Richard Branson owned Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2) reusable craft intended for Space tourism crashed in the California (Mojave desert). It has caused a major setback for...

Zambia has named Guy Scott as its interim president following the death of president Michael Sata. Guy Scott served as the Vice President of...

Union Home Ministry gave approval for the state to revert the names of their cities and towns to old Kannada names, after the proposal made...

Devendra Fadnavis sworn in as chief minister of Maharashtra where BJP formed its government for the first time without an alliance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...

Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or National Unity Day was observed on the birth anniversary of Iron man of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on Oct 31. The Government of...

Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Prize winner has been honored with another prestigious award.The World's Children's Prize also known as the "Children's Nobel Prize"  is based...

A self-styled, secular, modernist party called Nidaa Tounes won 85 seats against the Islamist Ennahda party in the Tunisian election.The governing Islamist Ennahda party...

PM Narendra Modi led NDA Government has relaxed the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms in construction sector, mainly to attract foreign investment in real...

An unmanned cargo rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded seconds after liftoff. The Antares rocket, carrying 5,055 pounds of supplies, science experiments...

Nilofar, a powerful tropical cyclone threatening the coasts of Gujarat, India, Sindh & Balochistan coasts of Pakistan and Oman, is also the strongest storm of the Arabian...

World Media Summit is an efficient platform for media organizations to communicate and pool collective wisdom for their survival and development. The first World Media...

SoftBank, the Japanese internet and telecommunication group headed by CEO Masayoshi Son has pledged an investment of $10 billion (over Rs.60,000 crore) in India’s IT and...

Union Tribal Welfare Minister Jual Oram launched the Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY), aimed at improving the infrastructure and human development indices of the tribal...

Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff has won a second term, defeating her opposition rival Aecio Neves with a narrow margin in an election. She won...

British forces handed over formal control of their last base in Afghanistan to Afghan troops, ending combat operations in the country after 13 years...

Sania Mirza and Zimbabwe's Cara Black win the WTA doubles finals at Singapore against the defending champions Hseih Su-Wei and Peng Shuai 6-1 and...

The Complete list of Maharatna, Navratna and Miniratna CPSEs (Central Public Sector Enterprises) and their status criteria are as of date October 26, 2014 are...

ENDOWMENT INSURANCE PLAN Endowment insurance plan is a combination of both pure term plan and pure endowment plan. Pure term plan has only Death benefit...

China launched an experimental spacecraft  to fly around the moon and back to Earth in preparation for the country's first unmanned return trip to...

Indian cueist Pankaj Advani outplayed former champion Peter Gilchrist in the 150 up points format World Billiards Championship final and pocket his 11th world...

The Commerce and Industry Ministry constituted a six-member think tank to draft the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) policy.The panel, to be chaired by...

Ashwika Kapur of Kolkata won the prestigious Panda Award, as part of the annual Wildscreen Film Festival held at Bristol, U.K. She is the...

Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge at Google broke the world altitude record for highest free-fall parachute jump.  He jumped in a specially designed space...