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Jeff Bezos ousts Bill Gates as world’s richest man
28 Oct 2017
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday replaced Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, a development directly attributed to the rise in Amazon shares registered on Wall Street
Indian-origin couple gets top US award for groundbreaking Aids research
26 Oct 2017
A South African Indian-origin researcher couple has been honoured with a prestigious award for exceptional contribution in the field of HIV/Aids
Xi Jinping gets fresh 5-year term, name added to Chinese constitution
24 Oct 2017
President Xi Jinping has emerged stronger than ever as an amendment to the constitution made his ideology a new component of the Communist Party of China’s guide for action, while Premier Li Keqiang also won a fresh term
Abe’s big election win bolsters Japanese markets
23 Oct 2017
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who assumed office in December 2012, now looks set to secure a third three-year term as LDP leader next September and go on to become Japan’s longest-serving premier
Seventh-grader Gitanjali Rao is America's `Top Young Scientist’
20 Oct 2017
Gitanjali Rao has been honoured for inventing a quick, low-cost test to detect lead-contaminated water, a problem that was haunting authorities since the water contamination scandal in Flint, Michigan in 2014-15
Pranab Mukherjee feels he was PM stuff, Manmohan Singh agrees
14 Oct 2017
While Mukherjee felt Sonia Gandhi did injustice to him, the former president, in the second part of his memoirs, had heaped praise on late Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi whom the Congress had made a villain
Anupam Kher appointed FTII chairman
11 Oct 2017
An alumnus of the National School of Drama, Anupam Kher had earlier served as chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification and was the director of National School of Drama from 2001 to 2004
Economics Nobel for American economist Richard H Thaler
09 Oct 2017
Richard Thaler had taken the field of behavioural economics from the fringe to the mainstream of academic research and had shown that it had important implications for economic policy, according to the Nobel Committee
Amit Shah’s son Jay threatens Rs100 cr suit over article alleging undue profits
09 Oct 2017
Jay Shah has threatened The Wire's owners, its editor, and the author of the article, with civil and criminal defamation and sue them for Rs100 crore in damages
British author Kazuo Ishiguro awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
06 Oct 2017
Japanese-born Kazuo Ishiguro, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world, the Swedish Academy said
Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani added $15.3 bn to take his personal wealth to $38 bn: Forbes India
05 Oct 2017
Three European-born scientists share Nobel Prize in Chemistry
05 Oct 2017
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 has been awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the development of cryo-electron microscopy, which both simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules
Former Intel CEO, Paul Otellini dies aged 66
04 Oct 2017
Under the stewardship of Paul Otellini, Intel won new business from technology leaders like Apple and focused more on technologies beyond chips for personal computers
Former Intel CEO, Paul Otellini dies aged 66
04 Oct 2017
Under the stewardship of Paul Otellini, Intel won new business from technology leaders like Apple and focused more on technologies beyond chips for personal computers
If demonetisation is a bold step, so is suicide: Arun Shourie
04 Oct 2017
Former disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government, launched a blistering attack on the Narendra Modi government, blaming it squarely for the current economic slowdown and terming demonetisation as the “largest money-laundering scheme ever”
If demonetisation is a bold step, so is suicide: Arun Shourie
04 Oct 2017
Former disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government, launched a blistering attack on the Narendra Modi government, blaming it squarely for the current economic slowdown and terming demonetisation as the “largest money-laundering scheme ever”
If demonetisation is a bold step, so is suicide: Arun Shourie
04 Oct 2017
Former disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government, launched a blistering attack on the Narendra Modi government, blaming it squarely for the current economic slowdown and terming demonetisation as the “largest money-laundering scheme ever”
ICMR chief Soumya Swaminathan gets key role at WHO
04 Oct 2017
Described as the ‘Father of Economic Ecology’ by the United Nations Environment Programme, Dr Soumya Swaminathan has been named by Time magazine as one of the 20 most influential Indians of the 20th century, along with Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore
Mallya arrested in London in money laundering case, let off on bail
03 Oct 2017
Mallya faces nearly half a dozen warrants in India and has been accused for repeatedly refusing to appear before courts and investigators, but is often seen at public events in London
Mallya arrested in London in money laundering case, let off on bail
03 Oct 2017
Mallya faces nearly half a dozen warrants in India and has been accused for repeatedly refusing to appear before courts and investigators, but is often seen at public events in London
Mallya arrested in London in money laundering case, let off on bail
03 Oct 2017
Mallya faces nearly half a dozen warrants in India and has been accused for repeatedly refusing to appear before courts and investigators, but is often seen at public events in London
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