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Kathmandu hosts Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018

The Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018 has started at Kathmandu in Nepal on January 5, 2018. President of Nepal Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated the exhibition. The basic objective of...

January 7, 2018

Gilles Simon wins 2018 men’s singles Tata Open Maharashtra Tennis tournament

Gilles Simon of France has won the Tata Open Maharashtra Tennis trophy at Balewadi Sports Complex in Pune on January 6, 2018. In the summit clash, the unseeded...

January 7, 2018

T S Tirumurti appointed as Secretary (Economic Relations) in MEA

T S Tirumurti, a 1985-batch officers of Indian Foreign Service, has been was appointed the Secretary (Economic Relations) in the External Affairs Ministry on January 5, 2018. According...

January 7, 2018

The 2018 Annual Conference of DGPs and IGPs started in MP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attended the annual conference of DGPs and IGPs at the BSF Academy at Tekanpur in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh on January 7, 2018. Over...

January 7, 2018

New Delhi World Book Fair started at Pragati Maidan

The New Delhi World Book Fair has started at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on January 6, 2018. It is organised by the National Book Trust (NBT) in...

January 7, 2018

What is the meaning of Contingent Beneficiary?

A Contingent Beneficiary is someone as specified by the insurance policy who will receive the benefits of the same if the primary beneficiary is either deceased, cannot be...

January 6, 2018

What is consumer surplus?

The difference between the actual price which the consumer is willing to spare for any commodity and the actual price which is paid by them is known as...

January 6, 2018

What is the meaning of Conspicuous Consumption?

Conspicuous consumption refers to the extravagance or wasteful spending that is done to publicly display wealth and prosperity. This concept was first introduced by American economist Thorstein Veblen...

January 6, 2018

HRD Ministry releases All India Higher Education Survey

The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education of Indian has registered an increase from 24.5% in 2015-16 to 25.2% in 2016-17 according to latest All India Higher...

January 6, 2018

Forex Reserves scale record high of $409.366 billion in December 2017

According to Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s foreign exchange (Forex) reserves have scaled to fresh record high of $409.366 billion as on December 29, 2017. The surge...

January 6, 2018

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