The Railway Board announced that the Indian Railways decided to increase the speed of the superfast trains to 160-200 kmph. The current superfast trains of India- Rajdhanis, Shatabdis...
As per the announcement by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India’s first mission to Mars –Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) will be launched on November 5, 2013 from Sriharikota...
The India and Bangladesh extradition treaty came into effect with the handing over of the instruments of ratification. The treaty was signed in January 2013. How would Indo-Bangladesh...
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram held that the government was keeping a close watch on the top 30 Non-Performing Assets (NPA) accounts of big borrowers (with loans of over...
In another major confidence building measure between India and China, both nations inked Trans-Border River Agreement (TBRA). The pact extends a previous MoU to provide hydrological date in...
Myanmar’s pro-democracy activist and parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi finally collected the EU democracy prize that had been awarded 23 years ago while she was under house arrest....
ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, won two oil blocks in Myanmar in Onshore Blocks Second Bidding Round-2013. As per...
The US space agency NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovered the first known tilted planetary system in the Space which is angled 45 degrees to the line of sight...
The Empowered Committee on film certification chaired by Justice Mukul Mudgal has mandated that no State government can order the suspension of a film. As per the draft...
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been selected for the inaugural Genesis Prize – an award popularly dubbed the Jewish Nobel Prize given by the Government...
