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Minority Rights Day observed

December 18 was celebrated as Minority Rights Day by the National Commission for Minorities which is headed by Justice Mohammed Shamim. On this day in 1992 that the...

December 23, 2012

Queen Elizabeth-II creates history by attending cabinet meeting

Queen Elizabeth-II became the first peacetime British ruler since 1781 to attend a cabinet meeting. This was the first time a monarch had attended a cabinet meeting since...

December 23, 2012

Ireland to legalize abortion

Following the pressure from the European court of human rights, which ruled that abortions should be allowed in the republic in cases where a woman’s life was at...

December 23, 2012

Bhanu Athaiya returns Oscar trophy to Academy to preserve it

Bhanu Athaiya, the costume designer who won the first Oscar for India at the 55th Annual Academy Awards in 1983 for her work in Lord Richard Attenborough‘s ‘Gandhi’,...

December 22, 2012

Shahrukh Khan receives Brand Laureate Legendary Award

Malaysia-based Asia Pacific Brands Foundation honored Bollywood Actor Shah Rukh Khan with the BrandLaureate Legendary Award. Malaysia had conferred the actor with the prestigious title of Datuk in...

December 22, 2012

Bharat Muni Samman to be given to Hema Malini

For her extraordinary contributions to the field of art and culture, renowned film actress and Bharatanatyam exponent Hema Malini has been selected for the prestigious Bharat Muni Samman...

December 19, 2012

The first CM of Uttarakhand Nityanand Swami passed away

The first chief minister of Uttarakhand, Nityanand Swami (85) passed away. He was chief minister a BJP led government from November 2000 to October 2001.

December 18, 2012

Pandit Ravi Shankar gets Grammy

Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar has been conferred with Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award posthumously. Two other artists who will receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously are...

December 18, 2012

Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar passed away

Sitar maestro and Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar (92) passed away. About Pandit Ravi Shankar (more…)

December 18, 2012

CAG Vinod Rai re-elected as chairman of UN external auditors panel

Vinod Rai who is current Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has been re-elected as the chairman of the panel of external auditors of the United Nations (UN). What...

December 18, 2012

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