The Union Transport Ministry is planning to complete all the stalled highway projects under a new model called Hybrid Annuity Model. This model was proposed last year and...
Although India has comprehensively turned around five years of decline and climbed 16 places in one year, the Global Competitiveness Index 2015 report still places India among the...
Several state governments are banning veterinary use of Ketoprofen drug to save vultures. Which drugs led to collapse of vulture population? There are three Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID)...
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar. The scientists have opened a new frontier in medicine by unveiling...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura “for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against...
Alfred Nobel (1833 –1896) was a lonely millionaire who, despite his enormous wealth, was unhappy, deeply melancholic and left some heart touching love stories behind him. In 1847,...
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2015 was awarded to Angus Deaton of Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”. Angus Deaton...
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for “its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of...
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 has been awarded to 67-year-old Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich for her for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in...
The second Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvette INS Kadmatt has been formally handed over to Indian Navy at Kolkata, West Bengal. It has been built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders...
The Noble Prize in Physics 2015 has been awarded jointly to TakaakiKajita and Arthur B. McDonald. TakaakiKajita is director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and professor...
Distinguished Tamil scholar and historian of South India and South Asia, Noboru Karashima from Japan passed away in Tokyo. He was 82. His research has rewritten the economic...
