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An Indian mathematician at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata named Neena Gupta has been awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from developing countries for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. The Ramanujan Prize was first awarded in 2005 and is administered by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical […]
The Central government has cleaned up 4.28 Crore bogus and ineligible ration cards from the public distribution system to ensure that the subsidised food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) is distributed among genuine beneficiaries. Due to use of information technology for TPDS reforms, digitization of ration cards data, deduplication process, permanent migration, […]
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tributes to C. Rajagopalachari on his 143rd birth anniversary, saying he is remembered for his contributions to the freedom struggle, administrative and intellectual prowess. Popularly known as Mootharignar Rajaji, he was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India […]
Even as US President Joe Biden opened the Summit of Democracy by raising the alarm about backsliding in democratic institutions worldwide, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an intervention, said that countries should follow their constitutional principle and added that tech companies should help to preserve open societies. On Thursday, Biden inaugurated the first White House […]
Even as Zakia Jafri, widow of Gujarat Congress leader Ehsan Jafri killed in the 2002 riots, fights an endless battle, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) told the Supreme Court on Thursday that nobody had raised a finger against it except the old woman. Zakia Jafri’s petition alleges a larger conspiracy during the violence in the […]
Chief Election Commissioner, Sushil Chandra today addressed the 74th batch of Indian Revenue Service Officer Trainees (IRS) at India International Institute of Democracy & Election Management, New Delhi. He urged the OTs to be more friendly to honest tax payers and come down heavily with iron fist on tax evaders. CEC also highlighted that effective […]
Tejashwi Yadav, son of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, on Thursday tied the knot with school-time flame, Rachel Iris. Rachel hails from Haryana but has been living in New Delhi. Tejashwi, 32, and Rachel are said to have first at Delhi Public School (DPS) in New Delhi and have been close friends since then. […]
As many as 25 airports in the country are identified for asset monetisation. From Gujarat, Vadodara and Surat airports are in the Centre’s list. As per National Monetization Pipeline (NMP), 25 AAI airports have been earmarked for asset monetization over the years 2022 to 2025 namely Bhubaneshwar, Varanasi, Amritsar, Trichy, Indore, Raipur, Calicut, Coimbatore, Nagpur, […]
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Thursday that India will keep its ban on scheduled international passenger flights that were supposed to start from December 15, till January 31, keeping in account the emerging threat from the new Covid-19 variant. The extension in suspending the scheduled international flights was decided in partial modification to […]
Many therapeutic disasters were played out during the second wave of Covid-19 simply because the Indian medical system and healthcare did not have the time for a standard trial to test a placebo. The most unsuccessful among all the disasters was plasma theory. Plasma is a component of the blood which is believed to have […]
India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Laxman Singh Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu on December 8, was a controversial military officer who was forthright and blunt to a fault. Over nearly two years as CDS, the former Indian Army Chief ruffled many feathers within the upper military, official […]
Following the death of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat in a military helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu, an investigation is now underway to probe the matter. The Indian Air Force is now in the process of collecting all relevant data and material, including the copter’s black box, or flight […]
“I hope that this is often not the last manifesto for women within the country. I hope that other political parties take a leaf out of this, and release manifestos for women,” Priyanka Gandhi said at a function held in Lucknow on December 8. A manifesto for women was launched by the Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for the […]
The Mi-17V5 helicopter that crashed on December 8 carrying 13 people, had flown for more than 26 hours without a snag after it was serviced, as per the sources. There was no system malfunction or technical failure in the last 2-3 sorties of this particular helicopter and the history was clear. In fact, it is […]
An army helicopter carrying Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat, who heads the three wings of the Indian Army, crashed in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, at 1:17 pm on December 8. Though the Government of India is scheduled to make a detailed statement about the same in the Parliament tomorrow on December 9, primarily, the crash […]
The Indian Air Force’s Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the horrific military chopper crash that killed Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat along with his wife and 11 others, was awarded the Shaurya Chakra this year on Independence Day for saving his LCA Tejas fighter aircraft during an aerial emergency in […]
An Indian Air Force Mi-17V5 helicopter carrying Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat, along with twelve others crashed in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor on Wednesday morning. The chopper taken off from the Sulur air base was on its way to Wellington in Coimbatore. PM Narendra Modi expressed his “deep anguish” […]
The former cricketer and Bihar’s most eligible bachelor Tejaswi Yadav is bowled over finally. An important politician in his own right and chief of Bihar’s single largest political party RJD, Tejaswi Yadav has chosen his bride-to-be. The younger son of two chief ministers of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi is all set to […]
Ankita Patil – currently a member of the Pune Zilla Parishad and the director of the Indian Sugar Mills Association is all set to tie the knot with Nihar Thackeray, the grandson of Bal Thackeray who is working as an advocate in Mumbai. Reportedly, the couple will get married at hotel Taj in Mumbai in […]
India’s crème-de-la-crème, the nation’s top 1%, earned more than one-fifth (21.7%) of the country’s total national income in 2021, while the bottom 50% made just 13.1% of the money, indicated the World Inequality Report 2021, released on Tuesday. It also indicated that the middle-class in the country is poorer than peers in other parts of […]
