On 5th November 2014, Union Cabinet decided to withdraw the Food Safety and Standards (Amendment) Bill, 2014 which was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by the then UPA...
On 5th November 2014, Forbes magazine released the list of ‘World’s 72 Most Powerful People’. The list gives the annual ranking of the World’s 72 Most Powerful People...
The World Trade Centre (WTC) in New York has been reopened for business. The 104 storey building was rebuilt at a cost of $4.2 billion, thirteen years after...
The Justice Mukkul Mudgal Committee, which was constituted to conduct an independent inquiry over allegations of corruption, betting and spot-fixing in IPL matches, submitted its findings in the...
The Darjeeling Zoo won an award at the International Earth Heroes Awards. It is the first Indian zoo to have received this prestigious honour. Apart from being the...
Veteran actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar passed away due to complications from a lung infection at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai. Amrapurkar is known for his stellar performance...
The Central Zone team defeated the South Zone team to win the 2014 edition of the Duleep Trophy. The Central Zone team was led by Piyush Chawla, who...
The Ministry of Culture will be setting up a National Cultural Audio-Visual Archives in Jodhpur in an effort to preserve India’s cultural heritage. The project will involve collaboration...
Senior IAAS (Indian Audits and Accounts Service) officer Rajani Sankaran has been appointed the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Ltd. (BHAVINI). She was...
On the insistence of countries like India, UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has constituted a blue-ribbon panel to recommend changes to international peacekeeping to enable it to cope with...
