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Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress party
29 Aug 2022
Jagdeep Dhankhar to be sworn in as new Vice President on 10 August
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
Draupadi Murmu sworn in as 15th President of India
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.
Droupadi Murmu elected President of India
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
Pallonji Mistry, chairman of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, dies at 93
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
Alka Mittal becomes first woman CMD of ONGC
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
Olaf Scholz replaces Angela Merkel as Germany’s chancellor
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
CDS Gen Bipin Rawat, wife among 13 dead in IAF chopper crash
13 Dec 2021
Lone survivor Capt Varun Singh SC, Directing Staff at DSSC with injuries is currently under treatment at Military Hospital, Wellington
David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens share Economics Nobel 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
Richard Branson flies into suborbital space on Virgin Galactic’s `Unity 22’
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
Exit Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett is Israel’s new Prime Minister
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
Donald Trump calls for $10 trn reparations from China over Wuhan virus
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
Fugitive Indian jeweller Mehul Choksi caught while fleeing to Cuba by boat
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
Bill and Melinda Gates fall apart after 27 years of marriage
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
Jagdish Khattar, former Maruti Suzuki MD, dies of cardiac arrest
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
Justice N V Ramana appointed Chief Justice of 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
Marc Llistosella replaces Guenter Butschek as CEO & MD of Tata Motors
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
Trump clears second impeachment trial, vows to fight on
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”
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
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By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation