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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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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