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29 Aug 2022

09 Aug 2022

Dhankar, former governor of West Bengal and a senior counsel at the Supreme Court years ago, has been in politics for over 30 years since the 1990s, but had only a brief stint in government as a minister in former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar’s cabinet

05 Aug 2022

26 Jul 2022

We in India, especially those from the tribal community, take necessary resources from nature and serve nature with equal reverence, and this sensitivity has become a global imperative today, the President pointed out in her first address.

22 Jul 2022

NDA’s presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu defeated rival candidate Yashwant Sinha by a margin of 947 votes, bagging 64.03 per cent of the electoral college votes against Sinha’s 35.97 per cent

30 Jun 2022

The largest individual shareholder in the Tata Group with an 18.4 per cent holding in the conglomerate, Mistry, along with his family, ran the Mumbai-based Shapoorji Pallonji Group

05 Jan 2022

Mittal, who has been serving as director (HR) since 27 November 2018 and  the senior-most director on the board of ONGC, will serve as CMD of the energy `Maharatna’ for a period of six months beginning 1 January 2022

13 Dec 2021

13 Dec 2021

While Germans see a continuation of Merkel's governing style in Scholz, who is a calm, steady hand in a crisis and a pragmatic leader striving for compromise, on foreign policy and on European policy, Scholz will be more aligned with the President Joe Biden of the United States

13 Dec 2021

Lone survivor Capt Varun Singh SC, Directing Staff at DSSC with injuries is currently under treatment at Military Hospital, Wellington

01 Dec 2021

08 Nov 2021

11 Oct 2021

David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens have provided new insights about the labour market and shown what conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments that has spread to other fields and revolutionised empirical research,” says the Nobel Prize committee

30 Jul 2021

13 Jul 2021

Branson’s crew of 5 on Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed suborbital test flight from the US space port in New Mexico on its 1.5-hour mission included Indian-origin aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla who became  the third Indian-origin woman to fly into space

14 Jun 2021

The new prime minister, leading the far-right Yamina party of six MPs and heading a coalition of diverse left-wing, centrist, right-wing and Arab parties, is in a precarious position with a narrow 60-59 win in the confidence vote

08 Jun 2021

The Former US President said nations should work together to present China for a bill of minimum $10 trillion and that, as a first step, all countries should collectively cancel any debt that they owe to China as a down payment on reparations

27 May 2021

Antigua’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne told news agency ANI that Antigua will not accept him back and that he has requested PM Skerrit and law enforcement authorities in Dominica to not return Choksi to Antigua where he has legal and constitutional protection as a citizen

04 May 2021

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said Bill Gates, 65 and Melinda Gates, 56, would continue to work as co-chairs and trustees of the organisation, even as the couple said they have reached an agreement on how to divide their assets worth $146 billion

26 Apr 2021

Khattar oversaw the transition of Maruti Udyog Ltd from a government controlled entity to the most successful Japanese automobile company in India

07 Apr 2021

A first-generation lawyer, having agricultural background, Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana has specialised in Constitutional, Civil, Labour, Service and Election matters and has also practised before inter-state river tribunals

15 Feb 2021

A former COO of Airbus, Marc Llistosella was the president and CEO of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corporation and head of Daimler Trucks Asia till 2018 before he moved on to join Einride’s board of directors

15 Feb 2021

Trump described his second impeachment trial as yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of the country, adding, “Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again’ has only just begun”

08 Feb 2021

05 Feb 2021