Ashoke Sen, a professor at Allahabad based Harish Chandra Research Institute has been announced as one of the winners of the first Fundamental Physics Prize started by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner with Prize value of USD 3 Million. He was chosen for this award along with 8 other scientists for his work on String theory.
Coal India Board has finally approved supply of a minimum 80% of the contracted quantity of Coal to the power firms in order to enable them meeting the rising power demand across the country.
Pakistan Supreme Court has rejected the new contempt law which was proposed to exempt top government officials from contempt of court charges.
US based Private equity giant Bain Capital Partners has announced to acquire 30% stake in India’s biggest business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Genpactfor USD 1 billion
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, known as the fastest man in the world with the world record holder in the 100 m sprint category, won the men’s Olympic 100m title with new record of 9.63 seconds.
UK’s Andy Murray defeated Swiss Tennis champion Roger Federer to win the Olympic Gold in the Men’s singles category.
Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi has been appointed as an Election Commissioner to fill the vacancy after elevation of V S Sampath as Chief Election Commissioner following retirement of former Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi.
Raghuram Rajan has been formally appointed as the chief economic advisor in the finance ministry.
India at Olympics
Gagan Narang brags bronze in 10 m air rifle
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Coal India Board has finally approved supply of a minimum 80% of the contracted quantity of Coal to the power firms in order to enable them meeting the rising power demand across the country.
Pakistan Supreme Court has rejected the new contempt law which was proposed to exempt top government officials from contempt of court charges.
US based Private equity giant Bain Capital Partners has announced to acquire 30% stake in India’s biggest business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Genpactfor USD 1 billion
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, known as the fastest man in the world with the world record holder in the 100 m sprint category, won the men’s Olympic 100m title with new record of 9.63 seconds.
UK’s Andy Murray defeated Swiss Tennis champion Roger Federer to win the Olympic Gold in the Men’s singles category.
Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi has been appointed as an Election Commissioner to fill the vacancy after elevation of V S Sampath as Chief Election Commissioner following retirement of former Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi.
Raghuram Rajan has been formally appointed as the chief economic advisor in the finance ministry.
India at Olympics
Gagan Narang brags bronze in 10 m air rifle
Vijay kumar wins silver in 25 m rapid fire pistol
Saina Nehwal wins Bronze in Badminton
Mary Kom wins Bronze in Womens Boxing
Yogeshwar Dutt wins Bronze in 60 Kg wrestling
Sushil Kumar wins silver in 66 kg wrestling
The Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Vilasrao Deshmukh passed away
South Africa replaced England as the world’s number 1 Test Cricket team following their second victory over England in the current ongoing series
Global tech giant Apple’s market capitalization jumped to USD 623.5 billion which is the record high market cap for any company in the world.
Olympic medalists Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt have been awarded with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2012.
India’s iconic stylish batsman V.V.S. Laxman has announced his retirement from International Cricket with immediate effect. With this his glorious 16 years of cricketing career came to an end. He scored 8781 runs in 134 tests at an average of 45.97 and scored 2338 runs in 86 One Day matches at an average of 30.76. He scored 17 test centuries and 6 ODI centuries.
Congress member P J Kurien has been unanimously elected as the deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha
Poonam Kishore Saxena has been appointed as the new chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
Russia has become the 156th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after nearly 20 years of negotiation.
Fortune magazine has published the list of 100 most influential women in the world. German Chancellor Angela Merkel secured the No 1 rank in the list followed by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton at No 2 and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at No 3.
Congress party president Sonia Gandhi has been ranked as the 6th most powerful woman in the world by the Fortune magazine.
India’s Supreme Court has extended the ban on tourism activities in the core area of the country’s tiger reserves in order to protect the wild animal.
Domestic Credit rating agency ICRA has lowered India’s 2012-13 GDP growth to 5.7% compared to its earlier GDP growth forecast of 6.2-6.4% due to lower investment sentiment.
India’s largest IT services Company Tata Consultancy Services has overtaken RIL as the country’s most valuable company in terms of market capitalization as its share price touched 52-week high.
India’s largest passenger car maker Maruti Suzuki has resumed its operation partially on 21st August at its Maneshar plant after nearly a month of violent labor protest.
US astronaut Neil Armstrong, who became the first person to walk on the moon, has dies.He was 82. He was the mission commander of the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 and walked on the lunar surface.
Congress leader Vayalar Ravi has been appointed as the new Union Minister for Science and Technology
Veteran Bollywood actor AK Hangal passed away at the age of 98.
India’s Under-19 Cricket team won the World cup today for the third time after defeating Australia in the final match.
The Supreme Court has asked Indian government to complete the fresh auction of 2G spectrum by 11th January 2013
