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Justice S K Sinha becomes first Hindu Chief Justice of Bangladesh

Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was appointed Chief Justice of Bangladesh by President Mohammad Abdul Hamid. With this appointment, he has become the first Hindu to hold highest judicial post...

January 13, 2015

Cristiano Ronaldo wins FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the third time

Cristiano Ronaldo has won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for year 2014. He has earned this title of world’s best football player for a third time. Earlier he was...

January 13, 2015

Arvind Panagariya takes charge as Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog

Eminent Economist Arvind Panagariya has taken charge as first Vice-Chairman of the newly-created National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog on 13 January 2015. After taking charges, he was...

January 13, 2015

Odhisa’s Sun Temple gets ASI’s Adarsh Monument tag

  Sun Temple at Konark, Odhisa has been the coveted with Adarsh Monument tag by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). Along with Sun Temple, three other monuments of...

January 13, 2015

Idukki district of Kerala becomes India’s first district with rural broadband network

Idukki district of Kerala has become first district in India to have high speed Rural Broadband Network i.e. National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) Internet connectivity. Union Minister of...

January 13, 2015

Union Government appoints Pournima Gupte as IRDA actuary

Union Government has appointed Pournima Gupte as member (actuary) of Insurance Regulatory Authority of India (IRDA). With her appointment, IRDA got an actuary after a gap of three...

January 13, 2015

Union Finance Minister Jaitley adopts 4 Gujarat villages as part of Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has adopted 4 villages in Vadodara district in Gujarat as part of the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. He has adopted following 4 villages...

January 12, 2015

Roger Federer records 1000th win after winning Brisbane title

Tennis living legend Roger Federer has recorded 1000 titles wins in men’s professional circuit career. He made his 1000 win after winning Brisbane International Tennis title. In his 1,000 career...

January 12, 2015

UN chief Ban Ki Moon inaugurates Gujarat’s second canal-top 10-MW solar power project

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon inaugurated Gujarat’s second canal-top 10-MW solar power project. It is located on 5.5 km stretch of Vadodara branch of Sardar Sarovar project...

January 12, 2015

First China-CELAC Forum ministerial meeting concludes in Beijing

First ministerial meeting of the Forum of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) concluded in Beijing. It was two-day meeting and was co-chaired...

January 11, 2015

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