A piece of Moon on sale – Pay Rs 18.9 crore and own it: This particular rock is one of 30 lunar meteorites that landed on Earth hundreds or thousands of years ago when a comet or an asteroid collided with our…
read moreIndia has lost two places in global press freedom index rank, i.e. 142nd out of 180 countries in the annual reporters without borders analysis published for the year 2020. The World Press Freedom Index 2020 said that no journalist was killed in…
read moreWorld Press Freedom Day, known as World Press Day, is one of the calendar events planned, organized and promoted by the United Nations, celebrated annually on May 3. The press serves as a means of communication between the government and the people….
read moreIndia’s information technology services industry would see a hiring freeze this year and executives would be cut by 20-25% in wages due to the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic, said Mohandas Pai, a veteran of the IT industry. The former Chief…
read moreRetired bureaucrat Sanjay Kothari is the new Central Vigilance Commissioner, Mr. Kothari, a 1978 Haryana cadre IAS officer, has been formally appointed more than two months after a High Powered Committee (HPC) headed by Mr. Modi selected him as the next CVC….
read moreThe government has appointed T.S. Tirumurti as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations. He succeeds Syed Akbaruddin, who is retiring. His appointment to the UN will come at an important time when India is on the UN Security…
read moreIn the backdrop of fighting against COVID-19 we the people of india were divided in three zones but united against fighting this pandemic; see these interesting numbers. 33% population in red zone, 43% in orange. The 284 districts falls in the orange…
read moreReliance Industries Ltd. announced its largest quarterly profit decline in at least 13 years as its main refining unit was affected by lower sales and margins due to the collapse in crude oil prices. Profit drops 73% as collapsing oil prices hurt…
read moreTo honor the struggles and achievements of workers, May Day is celebrated as International Labor Day. On May 1, 1886, unions in the United States decided to go on strike demanding that workers not be required to work more than 8 hours…
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