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High level meeting to review Security situation in Assam, Nagaland and Arunchal Pradesh

A high-level meeting was held by the Operation Group at Dinjan in upper Assam to review the security situation in Assam, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh in view of...

March 28, 2019

IEA publishes ‘Global Energy & CO2 Status Report’

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...

March 28, 2019

Rupee depreciates by 12 paise to 68.98 against US Dollar

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...

March 28, 2019

UGC prohibits to impart distance degree programmes in Agriculture

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...

March 28, 2019

UNDP releases 2018 global Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

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...

March 28, 2019

Tashigang, Himachal Pradesh becomes world’s highest polling station

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...

March 28, 2019

Milind Deora takes over as MRCC chief

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,...

March 28, 2019

Election Commission appointed Special Expenditure observers for 6 states

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...

March 28, 2019

Prafulla Rajguru, veteran journalist and academician passes away

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...

March 28, 2019

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun win 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award

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...

March 28, 2019

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