Famous agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan has been selected for the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for the year 2012. About MS Swaminathan Indian geneticist and former member...
International Finance Corporation (IFC) launched a $1 billion offshore bond programme to strengthen India’s capital markets and attract greater foreign investment. Under the programme, IFC will issue rupee-linked...
Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived bullet-injury inflicted by the Taliban for championing girls’ education has won the European Union’s (EU) Sakharov Human Rights Prize 2013. Past winners...
The India Post unveiled instant electronic money transfer service in collaboration with Wall Street Exchange, (a company of UAE’s Emirates Post Group) in New Delhi. India Post inked...
Though the apex court has directed the Election Commission to provide a ‘NOTA’ (None Of The Above) option to voters, the State Election Commission of West Bengal is...
The newly-elected Director-General of WTO, Roberto Azevedo has asserted that India would soon be breaching its Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS) commitments to WTO (World Trade Organization) due...
International Day of the Girl Child was observed globally on October 11, 2013 to recognize the girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world. The theme...
Britain’s pharmaceutical giant GaxoSmithKline (GSK) has successfully conducted the trial of the RTS,S vaccine developed by the company. In the results of the trial it was found that...
Ms Janet L. Yellen as the new head of the Federal Reserve Board. She will replace Ben Bernanke as Chair of the Federal Reserve Board. Prior to her nomination, Yellen...
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 will be shared by Michael Levitt, a British and US citizen, US-Austrian Martin Karplus and US-Israeli Arieh Warshel. As per Royal Swedish Academy of...
