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India, UK battle it out for vacant world court seat
14 Nov 2017
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor accused the UK of trying to use its Security Council muscle to silence the will of the UN General Assembly, which voted for India overwhelmingly in all five rounds
Debjani Ghosh set to become Nasscom's first woman president
11 Nov 2017
Debjani Ghosh, who has been a member of Nasscom’s executive council and a trustee of Nasscom Foundation, will succeed Nasscom president R Chandrashekhar, whose term ends in March 2018
UK minister Priti Patel resigns over bloated Israel trip
09 Nov 2017
Priti Patel, the 45-year-old Gujarati-origin MP, often touted as a potential future leader of the Conservative party and prime ministerial material, had a meteoric rise and an abrupt fall
The curious case of US Commerce Secretary Ross’s missing billions
08 Nov 2017
Forbes has published a report claiming that Ross, described as a billionaire on its list of the 400 wealthiest people since 2004, has “lied” to the magazine about his net worth, which is actually no more than $700 million
Modi’s demonetisation man Hasmukh Adhia is finance secretary
07 Nov 2017
Hasmukh Adhia was associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his days as Gujarat chief minister and was key to the successful implementation of the 8 November 2016 demonetisation of high value bank notes
Jinnah’s daughter, Nusli Wadia’s mother Dina Wadia passes away
03 Nov 2017
Dina Wadia, the estranged daughter of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and mother of Nusli Wadia, passed away at her home in New York on Thursday. She was 98
Zakir Naik finds a home in Malaysia: report
02 Nov 2017
Jeff Bezos ousts Bill Gates as world’s richest man
28 Oct 2017
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday replaced Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, a development directly attributed to the rise in Amazon shares registered on Wall Street
Indian-origin couple gets top US award for groundbreaking Aids research
26 Oct 2017
A South African Indian-origin researcher couple has been honoured with a prestigious award for exceptional contribution in the field of HIV/Aids
Xi Jinping gets fresh 5-year term, name added to Chinese constitution
24 Oct 2017
President Xi Jinping has emerged stronger than ever as an amendment to the constitution made his ideology a new component of the Communist Party of China’s guide for action, while Premier Li Keqiang also won a fresh term
Abe’s big election win bolsters Japanese markets
23 Oct 2017
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who assumed office in December 2012, now looks set to secure a third three-year term as LDP leader next September and go on to become Japan’s longest-serving premier
Seventh-grader Gitanjali Rao is America's `Top Young Scientist’
20 Oct 2017
Gitanjali Rao has been honoured for inventing a quick, low-cost test to detect lead-contaminated water, a problem that was haunting authorities since the water contamination scandal in Flint, Michigan in 2014-15
Pranab Mukherjee feels he was PM stuff, Manmohan Singh agrees
14 Oct 2017
While Mukherjee felt Sonia Gandhi did injustice to him, the former president, in the second part of his memoirs, had heaped praise on late Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi whom the Congress had made a villain
Anupam Kher appointed FTII chairman
11 Oct 2017
An alumnus of the National School of Drama, Anupam Kher had earlier served as chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification and was the director of National School of Drama from 2001 to 2004
Economics Nobel for American economist Richard H Thaler
09 Oct 2017
Richard Thaler had taken the field of behavioural economics from the fringe to the mainstream of academic research and had shown that it had important implications for economic policy, according to the Nobel Committee
Amit Shah’s son Jay threatens Rs100 cr suit over article alleging undue profits
09 Oct 2017
Jay Shah has threatened The Wire's owners, its editor, and the author of the article, with civil and criminal defamation and sue them for Rs100 crore in damages
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