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20 Dec 2019

Panchanathan would assume the position of NSF director, a senate-confirmed position, after France Córdova ends her six-year term as NSF director in 2020

19 Dec 2019

While the initiation of impeachment procedure is one of the most shameful episodes for an elected president, House Republicans are sure that the President did absolutely nothing wrong and that he will come out of the “entire sham impeachment” unscathed

17 Dec 2019

13 Dec 2019

By 6:30am (06:30 GMT) today, with results in five seats still to be declared, the Conservatives have already secured 361 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons

05 Dec 2019

05 Dec 2019

04 Dec 2019

The apex court, however, restrained Chidambaram from giving press interviews or making statements with regard to the case as also from traveling abroad without the court's permission

11 Nov 2019

Seshan, 86, who brought new vigour to Election Commission and strived for free and fair elections by introducing the moral code, passed away at his Chennai residence

30 Oct 2019

The House of Commons approved the bill by a margin of 430 to 20, paving the way for the general election ahead of the extended Brexit deadline of 31 January

30 Oct 2019

Justice Bobde, 63, who will take charge as the 47th Chief Justice of India on 18 November when the present CJI Ranjan Gogoi retires, will have a tenure of over 17 months and is due to retire on 23 April 2021

23 Oct 2019

On the crisis in the banking sector, he said the government should reduce its equity stake in PSU banks to below 51 per cent so that there is no oversight by the CVC

22 Oct 2019

The Supreme Court bench, however, made it clear that Chidambaram will not leave the country without prior permission of the court and make himself available for interrogation as and when called by the probe agency

21 Oct 2019

18 Oct 2019

15 Oct 2019

The agency plans to arrest him from Tihar jail in the morning and produce in court around 4 PM when the agency applies for his custody

14 Oct 2019

The Laureates’ research findings – and those of the researchers following in their footsteps – have dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice, the according to the Nobel Prize Committee

11 Oct 2019

Abiy Ahmed, who became Prime Minister in April 2018, made it clear that he wished to resume peace talks, and with support from Eritrian President Afwerki signed the peace agreement in Asmara and Jeddah in July and September this year - accepting the arbitration ruling of an international boundary commission in 2002

11 Oct 2019

10 Oct 2019

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life,” while Austrian author Peter Handke has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”

09 Oct 2019

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system

30 Sep 2019

Since his commissioning into the fighter stream of IAF on 15 June 1980, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria had flowwn 27 types of fighters as well as transport aircraft and holds the unique distinction of being an Experimental Test Pilot, a Cat 'A' Qualified Flying Instructor and a Pilot Attack Instructor

30 Sep 2019

27 Sep 2019

Chirac, like Charles de Gaulle, ably presided over a state in which power was divided between the left and the right even as he championed the cause of a stronger European Union

25 Sep 2019