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General Knowledge about Tulu Language

Tulu is one of the five major Dravidian languages, however it is lesser known to us in comparison to the other four viz. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam....

November 22, 2013

National Mission on Food Processing

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in August 2012 had approved a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme titled “National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP)”. This scheme was announced in...

November 22, 2013

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November 21, 2013

Waheeda Rehman to receive First Centanary Award at 44th IFFI

Legendary actress Waheeda Rehman will be conferred with the first Centanary Award for the Indian Film Personality at the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be...

November 20, 2013

CHOGM 2015 to be held in Malta as Mauritius pulls out

The next CHOGM (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) 2015 will be held in Malta. The south European nation invited the Commonwealth to hold the summit after Mauritius pulled...

November 20, 2013

NASA launches MAVEN to explore Mars

In a bid to dismantle the ancient mystery of Mar’s radical climate change, US space agency NASA launched robotic explorer MAVEN rocketed toward the red planet. The unmanned spacecraft...

November 20, 2013

RBI opens Rs 5,000 crore refinance facility for MSME

In a bid to ease liquidity to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSME) sector, the RBI has extended a Rs 5,000 crore refinance window for a period of one...

November 20, 2013

Nobel laureate Doris Lessing passed away

Doris Lessing (94), one of the UK’s most-influential writer and a Nobel Literature laureate passed away. Doris Lessing: Born: October 22, 1919, in Kermanshah, Iran British novelist, poet,...

November 20, 2013

Abdulla Yameen becomes President of Maldives

Abdulla Yameen has been elected as the new President of the Maldives after a run-off poll.  The event ended nearly two years of political tumult that blighted the incipient democracy...

November 20, 2013

World Bank Study: 53% of Indian households defecate in the open

As per a recent paper/ report titled ‘Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Sanitation on Childhood Cognitive Skills’ released by the World Bank on the eve of the first...

November 19, 2013

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