Millions of Indians from various backgrounds use one common mode of transportation – the Indian Railways – which thus play a major role as an “integrator and unifier” of the country, President Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday. “Every day, millions of passengers speaking different languages, consuming different types of food, wearing […]
Justice G. Rohini was Monday sworn in as the first woman Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. Justice Rohini, 58, who was a judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, succeeds N.V. Ramana, who was elevated to the Supreme Court in February. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed has been the […]
Bangalore born Indian-American poet Vijay Seshadri has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for “3 Sections”, called “a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia.” Seshadri, 60, will get the $10,000 prize for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, Columbia […]
The Supreme Court Tuesday recognised transgenders as the third gender, directed the government to extend them reservations in the backward classes category in jobs and education and provide them healthcare and held that they enjoyed all the rights under the constitution. The court gave transgenders the right to decide their […]
India’s maiden mission to Mars is on course, with its spacecraft Orbiter crossing the halfway mark on its voyage to the red planet, four months after it left Earth Dec 1. “The spacecraft Wednesday at 9.50 a.m. crossed the halfway mark of its journey to Mars along the designated helio […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected India’s growth to recover from 4.4 percent in 2013 to 5.4 percent in 2014 and strengthen to 6.4 percent next year, essentially unchanged from its forecast in January. These projections are based on the assumption that government efforts to revive investment growth succeed […]
The government will soon operationalise electronic travel authorization or e-Visa facility to inbound tourists from 180 countries. According to Tourism Secreatry Parvez Dewan, the government will operationalise the electronic travel authorization within a year. Dewan was speaking at the inauguration of the first edition of Incredible India Travel Bazaar (IITB), […]
