The International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and Transatlantic Slave Trade is observed every year on 25th of March to honour and remember those who...
The researchers from Australian Antarctic Program have discovered a network of lakes lying under the ice during their 160-day expedition to the Totten Glacier, the largest in eastern...
A high-level meeting was recently convened to review and strengthen the security situation in the northeastern states of Assam, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh, focusing particularly on the border...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has recently published the ‘Global Energy & CO2 Status Report’, which is designed to provide an update on the world’s energy markets, including...
The rupee is depreciated by 12 paise to 68.98 against the US dollar in early trade today on increased demand for the US currency from importers and rising...
Higher education regulator has approved the decision for University Grants Commission to prohibit to impart distance degree programmes in agriculture. The decision was taken on the ground that a degree...
According to the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), India has reduced its poverty rate drastically from 55% to 28% in 10 years between 2005-06 and 2015-16. The...
Tashigang, a small village of Himachal Pradesh, has now become the world’s highest polling station. The polling station falls in Buddhist-dominated Lahaul-Spiti district of the state at an...
The Congress president Rahul Gandhi has appointed former union minister Milind Deora to br designated as Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) chief. He has replaced Sanjay Nirupam. Mr Nirupam,...
Election Commission has appointed Special Expenditure Observers for 6 States for upcoming elections. These states are Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Nagaland and Telangana. The poll body has...
Prafulla Rajguru (82), the veteran journalist and academician, has passed away in Jorhat, Assam on March 28, 2019. Rajguru had retired as the head of the department of...
Three researchers – Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have won the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that...
