Chang’e-4, Chinese space probe named after the Chinese moon goddess, launched on 8 December 2018, made “soft landing” at the Von Kármán crater, the moon’s oldest and biggest impact crater in the South Pole-Aitken basin - a spot on the moon’s far side, which is untouched by earlier missions from earth, at 10.26 (02.26 GMT) on Thursday 3 January 2019 and transmitted first-ever “close range” image ...
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Bogibeel Bridge having Significance for India’s Defence Dedicated to the Nation
Bogibeel, India’s Longest Rail-Road Bridge, which spans the River Brahmaputra between Dibrugarh and Dhemaji districts of Assam and is of immense economic and strategic significance for the nation was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 December 2018, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister, Bharat Ratna Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and is also celebrated as "Sushaa...
Bharat Ratna Conferred to Pranab Mukherjee, Nanaji Deshmukh & Bhupen Hazarika
Bharat Ratna, nation’s highest civilian honour, has been conferred on former President Pranab Mukherjee, along with social activist Nanaji Deshmukh (posthumous), and Assamese musician Bhupen Hazarika (posthumous) by President Ramnath Kovind on Friday 25 January 2019. With these three recipients, 48 eminent people have been conferred the award so far.
Bharat R...
PSLV-C44 successfully launches Microsat-R and Kalamsat-V2
Microsat-R and Kalamsat-V2Satellitesweresuccessfully injected into their designated orbits byIndia's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C44), whichlifted off at 23:37 Hrs (IST) on 24 January 2019 from the First Launch Pad at SatishDhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota in its 46thflight.
- Microsat-R was successfully inje...
Tax Inspectors Without Borders
Signing of Terms of Reference (TOR) governing engagement of designated Indian Expert to provide tax assistance to Swaziland (now known as ESwatini) under Tax Inspectors Without Borders Programme between India and ESwatini was approved by theUnion Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 January 2019.
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Philip Kotler Presidential Award to India’s PM Narendra Modi
First-everPhilip Kotler Presidential Award by World Marketing Summit (WMS), Award that focuses ontriple bottom-line of Profits, People and the Planetand will be offered annually to the leader of a Nation, was presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modiby Dr.JagdishSheth of EMORY University, Georgia, USA, deputed by Prof. Philip Kotler to confer the award owing to his ill-health, on Monday 14 January 2019 at 7 Lo...
Kumbh Mela and Shahi Snan at Prayagraj
KumbhMela, the largest human congregation in the world, with over 12 crore pilgrims expected to participate in the 55-day long festival between MakarSankranti on 15 January and MahaShivratri on 4 March 2019, with the belief that taking a dip in the holy water of Ganges River will pave the way for their salv...
GaganyaanMission to send Indians to Space
Gaganyaan:“The mission will be capable of carrying three Indian astronauts and will orbit the Earth for seven days. It is a major expansion in ISRO’s Programme. A new Centre - Human Space Flight Centre is formed and will be the lead Centre for the overall management and realization of Gaganyaan.”“Gaganyaan is our highest priority now”, said Dr K Sivan,Chairman Indian Space Resea...
English Author Amitav Ghosh Honoured with Jnanpith Award 2018
54th Jnanpith Award has been conferred on Amitav Ghosh, one of the most prominent English contemporary Indian writers, known for a series of novels such as “Shadow Lines”, “The Glass Palace”, “The Hungry Tide”, and Ibis Trilogy: “Sea of Poppies”, “River of Smoke”, and “Flood of Fire”; as per the decision taken in a meeting of the Jnanpith Selection Board chaired by eminent novelist, scholar and ...
Election Commission of India reaffirms EVMs cannot be tampered
Although there has barely been any shred of evidence to show that any election held recently was subject to electoral fraud through a manipulation of EVMs, Election Commission of India(ECI) has to give repeated assurances by of the robustness of the administrative and technical safeguards in place to prevent EVM tampering.
Universal implementation of the Voter Verifiable Pape...