The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved Rs 6,600 Crore interest-free loans to cash-starved sugar mills in order to make payments to cane farmers. The interest subvention...
The Government of India appointed Ms Usha Sangwan as the first woman managing director of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and Vijay Kumar Sharma as an MD...
An artificial heart that can give patients up to five years of extra life has been successfully implanted for the first time, at Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris,...
The G-x model refers to the G-5, the G-7/8 and the G-20, which are structurally and procedurally in sharp contrast with the earlier treaty based organizations of the...
‘Cool Japan’ campaign was proposed by Japanese ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in May, 2010. The concept revolves around the culture legacy of Japan and aims...
Kirobo, the world’s first robot astronaut talks about Christmas in its first chat with the Japanese commander of the International Space Station. About the world’s first robot astronaut...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue Inflation Indexed National Savings Securities Cumulative (IINSS-C) bonds (or inflation linked bonds) for retail investors by opening the subscription on...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil tycoon and political opponent of Vladimir Putin, released from prison after being pardoned by the Russian President. He left for Germany where his mother...
The Environment Ministry, following the ‘in principle’ acceptance of the Kasturirangan panel report, issued a fresh order on easing norms on activities related to plantations and agriculture in...
Tejas, India’s first indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), which is all set to replace the MiG-21 series, developed by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) with Hindustan...
Indian scientists have discovered a pill form of insulin treatment, so now diabetes patients would be spared from the pain of jabbing themselves with a needle every day....
United Nations lowered India’s economic growth forecast for 2013 to 4.8% and warned emerging market economies of the possible negative impact of a tapering of the US Federal...
