Legendary painter Ganesh Pyne (76) passed away in Kolkata. Described famously as ‘an artist’s artist, a philosopher’s philosopher and master fantasist of them all’, Pyne had received several...
Rajya Sabha cleared a Bill envisaging for broadening the criterion for appointment of Presiding Officer of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT). SAT is a statutory body that adjudicates...
Google is conducting a research to build a more secure personal hardware device which can be used to login to a computer or an online account, thus doing...
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is exploring Mars, has identified sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients required to support life –...
In a referendum in which people of Falkland Islands were asked whether they wished to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom,...
The four financial sector regulators in the country- RBI, SEBI, IRDA and PFRDA have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for co-operation in the field of consolidated supervision...
India planned ‘Operation Lal Dora’ in 1983 to prevent coup in Mauritius India, during the regime of Indira Gandhi in 1983, had planned top secret military intervention-“Operation Lal...
Princess Lilian (97) of Sweden passed away. She had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Her romance with husband Prince Bertil became one of Sweden’s best-known love stories.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been elected as new pope of the Catholic Church. 266th pope Native of Argentina. Became first pontiff from outside Europe in more than a...
In Budget 2013-14, Finance Minister P Chidambaram proposed 0.01% tax on the trade of non-agricultural commodities futures, the new tax is called Commodity Transaction Tax (CTT). As per...
