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No plan to increase research stations in Arctic and Antarctica

Union Ministry of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences has clarified that India does not intend to increase research stations in Arctic and Antarctica. What is the status...

August 19, 2013

Government to set up an independent Coal Regulatory Authority

The Government has decided to set up an independent Coal Regulatory Authority. Proposed role of the Coal Regulatory Authority: To specify by regulation methods of testing for declaration of...

August 19, 2013

Training launch of Prithvi-II missile successful

India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) test fired its nuclear capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile for its full strike range of 350 km from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, off Odisha coast.  The...

August 19, 2013

Shree Ganeshan Chundan wins Nehru Trophy Boat Race 2013

Shree Ganeshan Chundan, the snake boat of the St Francis Boat Club, Harippad won the 61st edition of the Nehru Trophy Boat Race 2013 held in Punnamada Lake in Alleppey (Alappuzha), South Kerala. This is the...

August 19, 2013

Food Bill: some States gain and some lose in allocation of food grain

Although the National Food Security Bill is still pending in the Parliament, the Centre has intimated to certain States that their food grain allocation would decline in spite of the...

August 19, 2013

Famous French tennis player Marion Bartoli retires

Marion Bartoli declared her retirement thereby ending her tennis career just six weeks after winning Wimbledon. Bartoli is currently ranked 7th in the world. Marion Bartoli: Marion Bartoli is a...

August 18, 2013

Scientist Vinod Prakash Sharma honored with Gujar Mal Modi award

Scientist Vinod Prakash Sharma has been honored with the Gujar Mal Modi Award for Innovative Science and Technology 2013 for his achievements in malaria research, control and prevention,...

August 18, 2013

Environment Ministry’s panel finds illegal sand mining in Gautam Buddh Nagar

The environment ministry team found facts of the widespread illegal sand mining in Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. The team was set up by the ministry...

August 18, 2013

INS Arihant submarine’s reactor achieves criticality

The reactor of India’s first indigenous nuclear powered submarine, Arihant achieved criticality i.e. the self sustaining nuclear reaction which is the first step towards the stable production of...

August 18, 2013

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launches New Media Wing

The Union Cabinet accepted the proposal for establishing a New Media Wing. The expenditure to set up and run the New Media Wing will cost Rs. 22.5 crore...

August 18, 2013

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