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Musk plans to create internet in space
19 Jan 2015
Sahara chief Subrata Roy back at Tihar jail’s special facility again
14 Jan 2015
Subrata Roy, 66, who has been lodged in Tihar jail for over nine months for failure to refund over Rs20,000 crore of deposits collected from investors, has been allowed to use of facility till 22 February
RBI chief Rajan named world banking’s ‘Governor of the Year’
13 Jan 2015
The London-based financial journal Central Banking named RBI governor Raghuram Rajan ‘Governor of the Year’ on Monday
Sirisena sworn-in as Sri Lanka's new President
09 Jan 2015
Maithripala Sirisena, who scored an unexpected victory over incumbent President Mahinda Rajpaksa, was on Friday sworn-in as the sixth president of Sri Lanka
Lanka President Rajapaksa loses to Sirisena after decade in power
09 Jan 2015
Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa today conceded defeat to rival Maithripala Sirisena in the country's election, bringing an end to a decade of leadership increasingly criticized as corrupt and nepotistic
Columbia prof Panagariya says ‘honoured’ to be first NITI chief
06 Jan 2015
In his new position which gives him the rank of a cabinet minister, economist Arvind Panagariya will take a leave of absence from the university to accept his position at the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog
Eminent scientist Vasant R Gowariker passes away
03 Jan 2015
Gowariker, who started work on satellite technology along with Vikram Sarabhai in 1965, went on to head the ISRO and was also instrumental in the development of the ‘Gowariker model’ for long range weather forecasting
Modi enthusiast Arvind Panagariya likely to head NITI Ayog
02 Jan 2015
NITI Ayog vice chairman, like the Planning Commission deputy chairman, will effectively hold charge with cabinet rank while the prime minister will head the panel
Bharat Ratna for Atal Behari Vajpayee, Madan Mohan Malaviya
24 Dec 2014
Vajpayee will be the seventh prime minister to receive the award, while Pandit Malviya will be the 12th person to be honoured posthumously
Diplomat Devyani Khobragade stripped of duties after TV interview
20 Dec 2014
The external affairs ministry stripped her of her latest duties as director in the ‘partnership development’ division for giving an unauthorised interview to a TV channel
Sebi sends defaulter to six months in jail
19 Dec 2014
Haryana orders probe into missing files in Vadra-DLF land deals
19 Dec 2014
The official notings about the setting up of a three-member panel, which gave a clean chit to Robert Vadra's firm Skylight Hospitality and senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka's action of cancelling the mutation of DLF-Skylight deal are missing from the main file
US exonerates black teen of murder 70 years after his execution
19 Dec 2014
George Stinney Jr, 14, was sent to the electric chair for allegedly battering to death two white girls in 1944
Despite bail, 26/11 mastermind Lakhvi to stay behind bars
19 Dec 2014
Pakistan's anti-terrorism court in Rawalpandi granted bail to 54-year-old Lakhvi, the key conspirator of the Mumbai terror attack, just two days after terrorists butchered 132 children in a dastardly attack on a school in Peshawar
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