India prevailed 3-2 over Pakistan to reclaim the Asian Champions Trophy hockey title. This was the first time the teams were meeting in the final of a continental tournament since India dethroned Pakistan as the Asian Games champion in Incheon, South Korea in 2014. India had won the inaugural edition of the Asian Champions Trophy, […]
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Nobel Prize 2016
Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was divided, one half awarded to David J. Thouless (Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA), the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane (Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) and […]
Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, in the words of the Swedish Academy. He is the first American to win the prize since novelist Toni Morrison, in 1993.
PSLV-C35 successfully launched
ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 371 kg SCATSAT-1 Satellite along with seven co-passenger satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the thirty sixth consecutively successful mission of PSLV. The total weight of all the eight satellites carried on-board PSLV-C35 was 675 kg. PSLV-C35 is the first PSLV mission to […]