Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Nepal. President Ram Baran Yadav admistered the oath of office to him. Regmi will continue...
A drought has been announced in the entire North Island of New Zealand. The government has described it as the worst drought in 30 years spell. The capital...
Tan Twan Eng won the Asia’s top literary prize “Man Asian Literary Prize” for his novel ‘The Garden of Evening Mists’, for the year 2012. He became the...
Xi Jinping has assumed charge of President’s office in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. He takes over outgoing president Hu Jintao. More on Xi Jinping:...
Welspun Energy, India’s biggest developer of solar projects, has commissioned Asia’s largest solar power project of 50-MW in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. This is the largest solar project to be...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
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,...
