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Satheesh Reddy appointed chairman of DRDO
27 Aug 2018
Satheesh Reddy has made significant contributions to indigenous design, development, deployment of diversified missiles and strategic systems, guided weapons, avionics technologies and aerospace technologies in India
Veteran jurnalist Kuldip Nayar passes away at 95
23 Aug 2018
Nayar, born in Sialkot in 1923, was deeply interested in peaceful relations between India and Pakistan and his autobiography `Beyond The Lines’, clearly tells it
Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan dies at 80
18 Aug 2018
The 80-year-old had served as the seventh UN chief for almost 10 years from 1997 to 2006 and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001, which he shared with the UN
Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee passes away
16 Aug 2018
Vajpayee, 93 and a diabetic patient, was under life support for the past 24 hours at AIIMS, where he was under treatment for the past two months
Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes away
13 Aug 2018
Among the last of the parliamentary stalwarts and 10 times Member of Parliament, Somanth Chatterjee had once lost the election from Kolkata’s prestigious Jadavpur constituency in 1984 to the present Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee who was then only 29 years old
Nobel Prize-winning novelist VS Naipaul dead
13 Aug 2018
VS Naipaul, who published more than 30 works covering both fiction and nonfiction, was known for his writings on colonialism and decolonisation, exile and the struggles in the developing world
Karunanidhi no more, stage shifts to burial ground Marina Beach
08 Aug 2018
Karunanidhi’s body will be buried behind Anna Samadhi — the memorial of his mentor C N Annadurai — on the Marina Beach
Indra Nooyi to step down as PepsiCo CEO, Ramon Laguarta to take over
06 Aug 2018
Since Nooyi took over as CEO, PepsiCo has delivered total shareholder return of 162 per cent, returned $79.4 billion to shareholders through dividends and buybacks, nearly tripled dividends and increased revenue from $35 billion to $63.5 billion
Stock shock unlikely to ruffle Zuckerberg's leadership in Facebook
28 Jul 2018
It was the biggest one-day loss in wealth recorded by an individual in human history — Mark Zuckerberg, 34, the Facebook founder and CEO, lost a whopping $15.1 billion in the first five minutes of trading in the US on Thursday
Vijay Mallya offers to return as ED moves to confiscate his assets
25 Jul 2018
Beleaguered tycoon Vijay Mallya’s change of heart comes after the Enforcement Directorate moved to confiscate his assets in India and abroad under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Ordinance