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President confers Bharat Ratna to Atal Bihari Vajpayee Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been conferred with India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee at his residence on 6 Krishna Menon Marg in New Delhi. In December 2014, Union Government had chosen Atal Bihari Vajpayee along with late educationist and freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya (posthumously) for the prestigious award. ISRO gets Gandhi Peace Prize for 2014  […]

Amitav Ghosh among top 10 finalists for Man Booker International Prize  Indian author Amitav Ghosh is among the 10 finalists for this year’s Man Booker International Prize. Kolkata born, 58-year-old Mr. Ghosh had narrowly missed out on the Booker Prize back in 2008 when he was shortlisted for his work “Sea of Poppies”. The Man Booker International Prize is an international literary award given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation. The awards comes with a £60,000 cheque and can be won only once in an author’s lifetime. SC quashes Section 66A, says it curbs freedom of speech […]

Shashi Kapoor gets Dadasaheb Phalke Award Shashi Kapoor, the veteran actor and producer was chosen for the 46th edition of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2014; It is the most prestigious film award in India. This award is conferred by the Government of India for outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian Cinema. He is best-known for his performances in Hindi films like ‘Jab Jab Phool Khile’, ‘Deewar’, ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’,‘Trishul’ and ‘Kabhi Kabhie’. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan, and he is also a proud recipient of three National Film Awards. The award consists of a Swarn Kamal (Golden Lotus), a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakh and a shawl. Madhav Gadgil and Dr. Jane Lubchenco won Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 2015 […]

India overtakes US to become the third-largest steel producer  India has become the third-largest steel producer in the world by overtaking the United States (US) with a production of 14.56 million tonnes (MT) in first two months of the year. While the US, which was the third-largest steel producer since 2010 has produced 13.52 MT during this two month period. China (65 MT) and Japan (17.4 MT) hold the first and second steel producer country during this two month period respectively. It was revealed in the Data compiled by World Steel Association (WSA). World Water Day observed on March 22  […]

Activist Rajendra Singh wins Stockholm Water Prize 2015  Rajendra Singh, an eminent environment activist, has been conferrefd the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize this year for his innovative water restoration efforts and extraordinary courage to empower communities in Indian villages. He is popularly known as ‘Water Man’ of India. He has earlier been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay award in 2001 for his work on community-based water harvesting and water management. Currently  he runs an NGO called ‘Tarun Bharat Sangh’ which is based in Kishori-Bhikampura near Sariska Tiger Reserve. The Stockholm Water Prize is a global award founded in 1991 and presented annually by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) to an individual, organisation or institution for outstanding water-related achievements. Renault Nissan Automotive India appoints Colin Macdonald as Managing Director […]

Nobel winner Venky Ramakrishnan to head Royal Society India-born Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as president elect of Britain’s prestigious Royal Society. Ramakrishnan will take over from geneticist Paul Nurse, also a Nobel laureate, on 1 December 2015. Ramakrishnan is currently deputy director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. In 2009, Ramakrishnan was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the precise structure of ribosomes i.e. the molecular machines that manufacture proteins inside all living cells. He shared this Prize with Tom Steitz and Ada Yonath. He was awarded a knighthood in 2012 and Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2007. He was conferred Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian honour in 2010. India Successfully Test Fires Air-to-Air Astra Missile […]

Supreme Court scraps decision to include Jats in OBC category The Supreme Court has scrapped a year-old notification by the then-ruling Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) granting the status of a backward class to the Jat community. An apex court bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman said: “We cannot agree with the view taken by the union government that Jats in the nine states in question are a backward community so as to be entitled to inclusion in the Central list of OBC as they don’t form socio-economic backward class”. Crisil announces Ashu Suyash as MD & CEO […]

Facebook acquires shopping search engine TheFind Social networking giant Facebook acquired the shopping search engine TheFind on 14 March 2015. With the acquisition, Facebook has moved into eCommerce. Both Facebook and TheFind cast the acquisition as a way to lift the digital advertising business of Facebook. TheFind was cofounded in 2006 by CEO Siva Kumar and CTO Shashikant Khandelwal, both native Indians. Green India Mission converged with MGNREGA to reclaim forest  […]

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