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PDP-Congress-NCP alliance set to form govt in Kashmir
21 Nov 2018
If talks succeed, Altaf Bukhari, a senior PDP leader and former finance minister under the PDP-BJP coalition government and Jammu and Kashmir’s richest legislator, could be the new chief minister, say reports
Naidu, Mamata team up to fight CBI and BJP
20 Nov 2018

Nissan’s Ghosn arrested for under-reporting salary: report
19 Nov 2018
The Japanese automaker said Ghosn had used company money for personal use and that it had been investigating possible improper practices of Ghosn and representative director Greg Kelly for several months

CVC has not given a clean chit to CBI chief Alok Verma: SC
16 Nov 2018
The Supreme Court today told the CBI chief’s lawyer that the CVC report will be handed over to him in a sealed cover and that he should also give the CBI chief’s replay in a sealed cover

Rajinikanth bats for Narendra Modi in NDA vs Mahagathbandhan
13 Nov 2018
Rajnikant, who on Monday remarked that the Bharatiya Janata Party may be dangerous for the opposition parties, today said if 10 parties are ganging up against the BJP, then the person on the other side must be stronger

Union minister Ananth Kumar passes away
12 Nov 2018
He was the force behind the NDA government’s low-cost medicine scheme launched nationwide, which has immensely benefitted the poor

MJ Akbar resigns amid volley of sexual harassment charges
17 Oct 2018
Coming ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Akbar attributed political motives to these “false, baseless and wild allegations”, and said these have caused irreparable damage to his reputation and goodwill

INX Media case: ED attaches Rs54-cr assets of Karti Chidambaram
11 Oct 2018
The Enforcement Directorate has attached Karti Chidambaram’s properties in Delhi, bungalows in Ooty and Kodaikanal, a cottage and house in Somerset in UK and a tennis club in Barcelona, Spain, besides fixed deposits worth Rs90 lakh

William D Nordhaus and Paul M Romer share Economics Nobel
08 Oct 2018
The two have been honoured for designing methods for addressing the world’s most basic and pressing question of creating long-term and sustainable economic growth in times of climate change

Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad share Nobel Peace Prize
05 Oct 2018
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Iraqi national Nadia Murad “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict and courageously combating war crimes and seeking justice for victims

US, UK scientists share Chemistry Nobel
03 Oct 2018
Frances H Arnold shares Chemistry Nobel with George P Smith and Gregory P Winter evolution for the development of proteins that solve mankind’s chemical problems, especially to combat autoimmune diseases and in some cases cure metastatic cancer

Arthur Ashkin shares Physics Nobel with Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland
03 Oct 2018
Donna Strickland, who shares half the $1.4-million prize with French laser physicist Gérard Mourou, becomes the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, after Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Marie Curie (1903)

Elon Musk ousted as Tesla chairman, asked to pay $20 m fine
01 Oct 2018
As part of the settlement of an SEC lawsuit, Musk will neither admit nor deny the allegations, but will resign as Tesla chairman and pay $20-mn fine with Tesla also paying a similar fine

Justice Ranjan Gogoi appointed new CJI
14 Sep 2018
As per the practice, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court is considered fit to hold the office of the Chief Justice of India

SC awards Nambi Narayanan Rs50 lakh compensation in Isro spy case
14 Sep 2018
The SC has now ordered that the compensation be sourced from the Kerala police officers - KK Joshua, Sibi Mathews and S Vijayan - who arrested Nambi Narayanan on false charges

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
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