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General Anil Chauhan takes over as Chief of Defence Staff
12 Oct 2022
In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan had held several command, staff and weapons related positions and had extensive experience in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East India
Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless share Chemistry Nobel
06 Oct 2022
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” that have made chemistry more functional
Three share 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
06 Oct 2022
Alain Aspect, John F Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have been recognised “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”
Medicine Nobel awarded to Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo
06 Oct 2022
The 2022 Nobel Prize Committee has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2022 to Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth dies at 96
14 Sep 2022
Her eldest son Charles, 73, automatically becomes king of the United Kingdom and the head of state of 14 other nations, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Former chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Mistry dies in road accident near Mumbai
04 Sep 2022
Anahita Pandole (55), a well-known gynaecologist, who was driving the car and her husband Darius Pandole (60), survived the crash, while Mistry and Jahangir Pandole, brother of Darius, who were in the back seat, were killed in the accident
Former chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Mistry dies in road accident near Mumbai
04 Sep 2022
Anahita Pandole (55), a well-known gynaecologist, who was driving the car and her husband Darius Pandole (60), survived the crash, while Mistry and Jahangir Pandole, brother of Darius, who were in the back seat, were killed in the accident
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
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