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December 1, 2015 7:40 AM

Senior IIS officer D N Mohanty retires from service

Mr. D N Mohanty, senior Indian Information Services, IIS officer and Additional Director General (News) in All India Radio yesterday retired from service. <br/><br/>Mr. Mohanty was a 1984 batch officer of IIS. During his 30 years service, Mr. Mohanty served in various capacities in AIR, ...

December 1, 2015 7:02 AM

'Outlook' magazine admits to quoting Rajnath Singh erroneously

The weekly magazine 'Outlook' has admitted to have wrongly attributed the Hindu leader remark to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, which created a storm in the Lok Sabha yesterday.<br/>In a statement uploaded on magazine's twitter handle last night, it said a remark made by lat...

November 30, 2015 8:50 PM

Colombia film &apos;Embrace of The Serpent&apos; adjudged best film of IFFI

The Colombia film &apos;Embrace of The Serpent&apos; adjudged as the best film of the 46th International Film Festival of India after 11 days event concluded in Panaji at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium today evening. Directed by the Ciro Guerra ,the film &apos;Embrace of The Serpent&apos; was f...

November 30, 2015 8:34 PM

India, 19 other nations pledge to promote clean technologies

Twenty countries along with India, China and United States will today launch an initiative to double their clean energy research and development budget over the next five years as part of global efforts to tackle climate change. Total amount of money being committed by these twenty countries under M...

November 30, 2015 8:18 PM

Prez presents Dr Abdul Kalam IGNITE award to innovator children at IIMA

As part of his three day visit to Gujarat, President Pranab Mukherjee today presented Dr APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE award to 31 school children across the country for their exemplary grass root innovations. <br/><br/>The programme was organised by National Innovation Foundation at Indian Ins...

November 30, 2015 8:13 PM

Cong says intolerance incidents are obstruction in country's growth path

The Congress has said incidents of intolerance are obstruction in the growth path of the country. Briefing media in New Delhi this evening, party leader P L Punia said, if the government wants to ensure overall development, it must ensure that there is no single incident of intolerance. <br/>&...

November 30, 2015 7:05 PM

PM Modi terms Climate change as huge global challenge

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has termed Climate change as a huge global challenge. Prime Minister,said this while inaugurating the INDIA PAVILLION in Paris today. He said that the results of the summit is important and urged the world to respond with urgency. He also emphasised on a comprehensive eq...

November 30, 2015 6:45 PM

Chief of Army Staff Gen Suhag meets Lankan counterpart at Colombo

Chief of the Army Staff General Dalbir Singh Suhag met his Sri Lankan counterpart, Lieutenant General Crishanthe De Silva at Army Headquarters in Colombo today. General Suhag arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday on a five day official visit to review defence cooperation between the two countries.<br/&g...

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