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President confers Pravasi Bharatiya Samman on NRIs

President Pranab Mukherjee honored 15 NRIs with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards. Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag, who was the chief guest at the inaugural of the Pravasi Bharatiya...

January 13, 2013

France honors Malala with Simone de Beauvoir Prize

France honored Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, withSimone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom. Malala Yousafzai was undergoing...

January 13, 2013

Rangarajan opines to increase taxes on “super-rich”

The chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council C. Rangarajan has suggested that increasing taxes on the “super-rich” could be one of the ways to improve the...

January 13, 2013

Air Marshal Kulwant Singh Gill takes charge as new commandant of NDA

Air Marshal Kulwant Singh Gill took charge as the new commandant of the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakwasla, Pune. The NDA provides three-year training in defence and...

January 12, 2013

Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda resigns

Chief Minister of Jharkhand Arjun Munda submitted his resignation to Governor Syed Ahmed. He resigned after the BJP-led government lost the support from Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Mr....

January 12, 2013

Justice D K Jain to head 20th Law Commission

Justice D K Jain, who is about to retire from Supreme Court, has been appointed as the chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India. Task for 20th...

January 12, 2013

PM Manmohan Singh ranked 19th most followed leader on Twitter

As per latest study released by Digital Policy Council, India’s PM Manmohan Singh has become the 19th most followed leader in the world on social networking website Twitter....

January 12, 2013

Sunmeet Kaur becomes first woman to win Rs 5 crore on KBC

Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney from Mumbai has become the first women to win Rs 5 crore on the popular game show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’. She answered all 13 questions...

January 10, 2013

Haradhan Bandopadhyay passes away

Famous screen and theater actor Haradhan Bandopadhyay (86), who had starred in many films of legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, passed away. Celebrated films in which he featured include...

January 10, 2013

Tulsi Gabbard: First Hindu American Congresswoman takes oath on Gita

Tulsi Gabbard- American politician and the Congresswoman for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district She has become the first Hindu American ever to be sworn in as a member of...

January 8, 2013

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