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 report, covering 105 countries, dedicates a chapter to India because of this ..

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 altitude of 15,256 feet, and is one of the 17 assembly segments ..

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, meanwhile, was nominated as the party candidate from the Mumbai North West ..

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 appointed Gopal Mukherjee as special expenditure observer for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana ..

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 English from DCB Girls College in Jorhat in 1997 and after his ..

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 have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. Bengio is ..