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First Global Buddhist Congregation begins in Delhi

  Around 900 eminent scholars, leaders and activists gathered for the first ever four-day Global Buddhist Congregation in India being held to commemorate the 2,600th year of Sambodhiprapti...

January 9, 2012

Shyamala Gopinath panel recommendations

The Government has recently accepted the recommendations of former RBI deputy governor Shyamala Gopinath panel which would help investors earn higher interest on small savings schemes such as...

January 9, 2012

Censure Motion

A censure means an expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism. It can be a stern rebuke by a legislature, generally opposition against the policies of Government or...

January 9, 2012

Dogri Language

Dogri language has evolved over many years and enriched our literature and poetry. Literary writing in Dogri has been impressive and by 1969 the Sahitya Akademi gave the...

January 9, 2012

FDI in Multi-brand Retail- Background and arguments

Up till now, the successive Governments in India have kept denying the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand Indian retail. So, foreign groups have been forbidden from any...

January 9, 2012

India’s 3rd research station in Antarctica Bharti to be commissioned in 2012

Bharti is the name of third Research station commissioned by India at Antarctica. It will be the third and second active research station along with Maitri (active) and...

January 9, 2012

South China Sea Controversy

During the recent visit of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang to India, the countries had inked 6 agreements as following: India and Vietnam signed an extradition treaty Oil...

January 9, 2012

What are UNGA resolutions?

UNGA Resolution Against Iran Recently, the UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning an alleged plot, blamed by the US on elements in Iranian establishment, to...

January 9, 2012

India assures Bangladesh on Tipaimukh project

India assured Bangladesh that the Tipaimukh hydro-electric project in Manipur will not have an “adverse” impact on it as there will be no diversion of water for irrigation...

January 9, 2012

Sabeer Bhatia launches free and open texting application “JaxtrSMS”

Sabeer Bhatia launches free and open texting application “JaxtrSMS” “Jaxtr Inc”, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel, announced the launch of “JaxtrSMS”, a cross-platform, open texting application...

January 9, 2012

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