IAS officer M Sathiyavathy has become first woman to be appointed as Director General (DG) of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). She will succeed Prabhat Kumar, to...
President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Bill, 2014 that seeks to scrap the collegium system of appointing judges to higher judiciary....
India’s largest nuclear reactor at Kudankulam has started generating electricity on a commercial basis after it received green signal from Nuclear Power Corporation(NPC). This 1000 MW reactor made...
The National Biodiversity Conference (NBC)-2015 will be held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from 23rd to 27th February. It will be second edition of this biodiversity conference and its focal...
Delhi government has launched new E-Rickshaw Sewa Scheme. This scheme will pave the way for the battery- operated vehicles in Delhi. Key facts of E-Rickshaw Sewa Scheme E-rickshaws...
1. Nand Chaturvedi, who passed away recently, was a famous poet in which language? [A]Hindi [B]Gujarati [C]Malayalam [D]Kannada Hindi Nand Chaturvedi was a noted Hindi poet and a...
UN Security Council (UNSC) has rejected a resolution demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within three years i.e. 2017. In this regard, Jordan...
Krishan Kant Paul is appointed as Uttarakhand governor for the remainder of his term. Earlier, he was governor of Meghalay and was appointed on July 8, 2013. Now he...
Union Government has set up a high-level committee in order to allay apprehension of data and intelligence sharing by various government agencies with the proposed real-time intelligence sharing...
Actress Luise Rainer passed away in London, UK. She was 104. She was born on 12th January 1910 in Vienna, Austria. She was renowned German-born Austrian and American...
