Ahead of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which is scheduled to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka this month (November 2013), Sri Lanka will set up a...
As per an analysis of 50 years of Election Commission data for the Assembly elections held between 1962 and 2012 in 16 major States, there has been a...
India is hosting one of the most coveted chess battles- the World Chess Championship for year 2013 in Chennai. A series of matches will be played between the defending world champion Viswanathan Anand (winner...
The central islands of Philippines were slammed by category-five typhoon Haiyan. The typhoon has been recorded as the strongest recorded typhoon to make landfall. It forced millions of people to flee...
1. The “Rabaa sign” has recently become a symbol of protest against the military coup in __ ? [A]Syria [B]Egypt [C]Cuba [D]Turkey Egypt The “Rabaa sign” has become...
Celebrating the 129th birthday of Hermann Rorschach, Google dedicated a doodle on its homepage depicting inkblot testsdeveloped by the eminent psychoanalyst. Who was Hermann Rorschach? Born on November 8, 1884 in...
Providing a significant impetus to the government’s disinvestment programme to raise Rs.40,000 crore in this fiscal (2013-14), Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gave its approval for the...
The Union Cabinet approved the Union Environment and Forests Ministry and climate negotiators’ team strategy to reassert the significance of historical emissions in the new climate pact, which...
The Gauhati High Court has set aside the Union Home Ministry resolution by which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was formed in 1963. As per the court,...
Brazil is celebrating a decade of a social programme Bolsa Familia (Family Grant) that has lifted 50 million people out of poverty and inspired policies in more than 20...
International rating agency, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has kept India’s long-term sovereign outlook negative and warned that it would be lowered further within a year if the “policy...
While presenting the Union Budget 2013-14, Finance Minister had proposed setting up an independent roads regulator. The finance minister said “the sector faces challenges not envisaged earlier, including...
