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Central assistance of Rs. 41 Crore to protect Pashmina Goats

The Union Government will provide a financial assistance of Rs 41.21 crore to protect Pashmina goat which produces world-famous fine luxury fibre. The government is concerned over the...

March 15, 2013

Renowned painter Ganesh Pyne passed away

Legendary painter Ganesh Pyne (76) passed away in Kolkata.  Described famously as ‘an artist’s artist, a philosopher’s philosopher and master fantasist of them all’, Pyne had received several...

March 15, 2013

SEBI Bill for appointing SAT head passed in Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha cleared a Bill envisaging for broadening the criterion for appointment of Presiding Officer of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT). SAT is a statutory body that adjudicates...

March 15, 2013

Google to build personal hardware devises to replace passwords

Google is conducting a research to build a more secure personal hardware device which can be used to login to a computer or an online account, thus doing...

March 15, 2013

Curiosity finds key ingredients required to support life on mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is exploring Mars, has identified sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients required to support life –...

March 15, 2013

Falkland islanders choose to stay with Britain

In a referendum in which people of Falkland Islands were asked whether they wished to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom,...

March 15, 2013

Four regulators sign MoU to jointly supervise financial conglomerates

The four financial sector regulators in the country- RBI, SEBI, IRDA and PFRDA have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for co-operation in the field of consolidated supervision...

March 15, 2013

Fact Box: Operation Lal Dora

 India planned ‘Operation Lal Dora’ in 1983 to prevent coup in Mauritius India, during the regime of Indira Gandhi in 1983, had planned top secret military intervention-“Operation Lal...

March 15, 2013

Princess Lilian of Sweden passes away

Princess Lilian (97) of Sweden passed away. She had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Her romance with husband Prince Bertil became one of Sweden’s best-known love stories.

March 15, 2013

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