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Padma Awards 2012
Padma Vibhushan Award 2012 S. No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1. Shri K G Subramanyan Art-Painting & Sculpture West Bengal 2. Late Shri Mario De Miranda Art-Cartoonist Goa* 3. Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika Art- Vocal Music Assam* 4. Dr. Kantilal Hastimal … Continue reading
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Tagged Padma Awards 2012, Padma Bhushan Award, Padma Vibhushan Award
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First in The World and First in India
The first person to reach Mount Everest Sherpa Tenzing, Edmund Hillary The first person to reach North Pole Robert Peary The first person to reach South Pole Amundsen The first religion of the world Hinduism The first country to print … Continue reading
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Tagged First in India, First in The World
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Vinod Rai to Head UN Audit Panel
The Central government may have been critical of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai for taking out a series of adverse findings on government policies, but the contribution of the auditor seems to have been recognized by the … Continue reading
69th Golden Globe Awards
George Clooney, winner of best actor in a motion picture drama for his role in The Descendants, poses in the photo room at the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California. Meryl Streep accepts her award for best … Continue reading
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2011
Language Title and Genre Author Assamese Ei Anuragi Ei Udasi (Poetry) (late) Kabin Phukan Bengali Bane Aaj Concherto (Poetry) Manindra Gupta Bodo Okhafwrni Dwima (Poetry) Premananda Mosahari Dogri Cheten Diyan Ga’liyan (Essays) Lalit Magotra English India After Gandhi (Narrative History) … Continue reading
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Tagged Akademi Awards 2011, Sahitya Akademi award
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‘Lost World’ of Sea Creatures Discovered Near Antarctica
Scientists doing their first exploring of deep-sea vents in the Antarctic said it was unlike anything found around other hydrothermal vents — a world populated by new species of anemones, predatory sea stars, and piles of hairy-chested yeti crabs. It … Continue reading
Indian-born Noble laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan gets Knighthood
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, India-born US citizen whose pioneering work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has been honoured with a knighthood by the royal establishment here in a rare recognition of achievement by foreigners based in … Continue reading
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Tagged Knighthood, Molecular Biology, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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India win men, women world cup Kabaddi titles
Hosts India lifted the winners title in the men’s and women’s section of the second World Cup Kabaddi tournament in Ludhiana. The India men team easily beat the Canada side 59-25 in the final match played at the Guru … Continue reading
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Tagged Current Affairs, General Knowledge, Indian Kabaddi, Kabaddi World Cup
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India has been elected to the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit for 5 yrs
China, India has been elected to the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit, an independent external oversight body mandated to conduct evaluations, inspections and investigations of UN system worldwide. India won the Asia-Pacific region seat for the five-year term beginning 1 … Continue reading
SAARC University
The proposal for setting up a SAARC university was mooted by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 13th SAARC Summit in Dhaka in December 2005. Then the External Affairs Minister stressed that SAARC has moved towards it relatively quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged SAARC, SAARC university, South Asian University (SAU)
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