Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj been named as one of the 15 Global Thinkers of the year by the Foreign Policy magazine for helping out thousands of distressed people who had appealed for help on the social media. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also acknowledged the news with a congratulatory message. “Very proud…
Vladimir Putin was the world’s most powerful person for a fourth straight year in 2016, while US president-elect Donald Trump in second place, Forbes magazine said Wednesday in its annual rankings. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been ranked 9th among the 74 most powerful people in the world listed by Forbes.…
All Government exemptions provided for the use of old Rs 500 notes for utility payments will come to an end at the midnight of Thursday (December 15), not December 14, as a section of media claimed, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. “Exemptions for the use of old Rs 500 notes will end on 15 December…
Syndicate Bank has released notification inviting interested, eligible candidates to apply for the posts of Probationary Officer. The candidates may apply to the posts in the prescribed format on or before December 28. Total posts: 400 Name of the post: Probationary Officer Education qualification: The candidates…
New Zealand women captain Suzie Bates became the first player to win both the ICC Women’s ODI and T20I Player-of-the-Year awards. Bates had won the women’s ODI Player-of-the-Year award in 2013 but has been named the T20I Player of the Year for the first time. She scored 472 runs in eight ODIs for an…
The US has warned China against “aggressive behavior in the South China Sea,” saying it would not accept Beijing’s control of the region. The warning by Admiral Harry Harris, head of the US Pacific Command, came on Wednesday as tensions between two powers continue to rise. “We will not allow a…
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a bomb attack on a Cairo church that killed 25 people and wounded at least 45, the first claim for one of the worst attacks on the Coptic Christian community in recent memory. “IS” identified the suicide bomber by the pseudonym Abu Abdallah…
Today the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) hosted its High-Level pledging conference for 2017. Twenty-nine donors pledged almost US$273 million to the Fund to support urgent aid whenever and wherever crises hit. India has said it will contribute USD 500,000 to the United Nations’s emergency…
India is all set to test its Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), capable of striking even the northern China. The test which is scheduled to happen today, December 14, will be the fourth and the final test of nuclear-capable Agni-V from Wheeler Island off Odisha. “This will be the final test of the…
HTC, a Taiwan-based telecommunications company, is set to release its upcoming HTC 11 unit will be launched early in 2017. The display will be 5.5 inches with a Quad HD resolution. The phone is likely to run on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 CPU along with 8GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage. The device is expected to run…