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MJ Akbar resigns amid volley of sexual harassment charges
17 Oct 2018
Coming ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Akbar attributed political motives to these “false, baseless and wild allegations”, and said these have caused irreparable damage to his reputation and goodwill
INX Media case: ED attaches Rs54-cr assets of Karti Chidambaram
11 Oct 2018
The Enforcement Directorate has attached Karti Chidambaram’s properties in Delhi, bungalows in Ooty and Kodaikanal, a cottage and house in Somerset in UK and a tennis club in Barcelona, Spain, besides fixed deposits worth Rs90 lakh
William D Nordhaus and Paul M Romer share Economics Nobel
08 Oct 2018
The two have been honoured for designing methods for addressing the world’s most basic and pressing question of creating long-term and sustainable economic growth in times of climate change
Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad share Nobel Peace Prize
05 Oct 2018
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Iraqi national Nadia Murad “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict and courageously combating war crimes and seeking justice for victims
US, UK scientists share Chemistry Nobel
03 Oct 2018
Frances H Arnold shares Chemistry Nobel with George P Smith and Gregory P Winter evolution for the development of proteins that solve mankind’s chemical problems, especially to combat autoimmune diseases and in some cases cure metastatic cancer
Arthur Ashkin shares Physics Nobel with Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland
03 Oct 2018
Donna Strickland, who shares half the $1.4-million prize with French laser physicist Gérard Mourou, becomes the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, after Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Marie Curie (1903)
Elon Musk ousted as Tesla chairman, asked to pay $20 m fine
01 Oct 2018
As part of the settlement of an SEC lawsuit, Musk will neither admit nor deny the allegations, but will resign as Tesla chairman and pay $20-mn fine with Tesla also paying a similar fine
Justice Ranjan Gogoi appointed new CJI
14 Sep 2018
As per the practice, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court is considered fit to hold the office of the Chief Justice of India
SC awards Nambi Narayanan Rs50 lakh compensation in Isro spy case
14 Sep 2018
The SC has now ordered that the compensation be sourced from the Kerala police officers - KK Joshua, Sibi Mathews and S Vijayan - who arrested Nambi Narayanan on false charges
Satheesh Reddy appointed chairman of DRDO
27 Aug 2018
Satheesh Reddy has made significant contributions to indigenous design, development, deployment of diversified missiles and strategic systems, guided weapons, avionics technologies and aerospace technologies in India
Veteran jurnalist Kuldip Nayar passes away at 95
23 Aug 2018
Nayar, born in Sialkot in 1923, was deeply interested in peaceful relations between India and Pakistan and his autobiography `Beyond The Lines’, clearly tells it
Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan dies at 80
18 Aug 2018
The 80-year-old had served as the seventh UN chief for almost 10 years from 1997 to 2006 and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001, which he shared with the UN
Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee passes away
16 Aug 2018
Vajpayee, 93 and a diabetic patient, was under life support for the past 24 hours at AIIMS, where he was under treatment for the past two months
Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes away
13 Aug 2018
Among the last of the parliamentary stalwarts and 10 times Member of Parliament, Somanth Chatterjee had once lost the election from Kolkata’s prestigious Jadavpur constituency in 1984 to the present Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee who was then only 29 years old
Nobel Prize-winning novelist VS Naipaul dead
13 Aug 2018
VS Naipaul, who published more than 30 works covering both fiction and nonfiction, was known for his writings on colonialism and decolonisation, exile and the struggles in the developing world
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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