International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released its updated Red List of Threatened Species. According to the IUCN report: 63837 species assessed 19817 species threatened with extinction,...
The US super computer Sequoia has been crowned as the fastest computer in the world. Placed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California Can make 16.32 quadrillion calculations/second...
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has made it mandatory to label every package containing Genetically Modified (GM) food from January 1, 2013. The ministry published a gazette notification...
ITC Limited bagged the 2012 World Business and Development Award at the Rio+20 UN Summit at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. · The award has been conferred on ITC...
While addressing the conference at Rio de Janeiro, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao held that China still has more than 100 million people living Below the Poverty Line...
Lashing out at global rating agencies for reducing credit outlook of Indian banks, the government held these bodies are fully capitalized and there is nothing to worry about...
No breakthrough could be achieved in the Moscow round of talks between Iran and the 6 major world powers – the USA, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany,...
Renowned scientist Sekhar Basu took the position of director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He played pivotal role in the development of atomic reactor for India’s indigenous...
The 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas will be hosted by Cochin from 7th to 9th January in 2013. The Prime Minister will open the annual flagship event The President...