General Bipin Rawat, who was selected ignoring the seniority of Lt. Gen. Praveen Bakshi and Lt. Gen. P.M. Hariz, took over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from General Dalbir Singh at a ceremony held in South Block. Gen. Rawat, a Gorkha Rifles officer, will be the 27th Army Chief. Gen. Rawat has […]
India reclaims Champions Trophy
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, […]
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 […]
Mandi and Sindhudurg found to be the Cleanest Districts in India
The Minister, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, released the ‘Swachh Survekshan’ for rural India, revealing Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) and Sindhudurg (Maharashtra) as the cleanest districts in India. A total of 22 hill districts and 53 plain areas were assessed under the Gramin Swachh Survekshan launched […]
Alka Sirohi appointed as UPSC chairman
Former IAS officer Alka Sirohi has been appointed as chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), in place of Deepak Gupta who demits office on 20th September 2016. President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Sirohi to perform the duties of the post of the chairman, UPSC, with effect from September 21.
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chanda Kochhar, Shikha Sharma among most powerful women outside US
India’s top women bankers, SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI head Chanda Kochhar and Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma, are among the 50 most powerful women based outside the US, according to a list by Fortune which is topped by Banco Santander’s boss Ana Botin. Bhattacharya, 60 is ranked second on the list, while Kochhar comes […]
GSLV Successfully Launches India’s Weather Satellite INSAT-3DR
India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, equipped with the indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS), successfully launched the country’s weather satellite INSAT-3DR, into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The achieved orbit is very close to the intended one. The launch took place from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota, […]
Australian Open Tennis 2016
WOMEN’S SINGLE Angelique Kerber of Germany won title after defeating Karolina Pliskova of Czech Republic in their 2016 U.S. Open Women’s Singles final match. Kerber won her first U.S. Open title and the second major trophy of an out-of-nowhere breakthrough season.
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