NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS, 2015 1. Arthur McDonald | Physics Mr. McDonald is a professor emeritus at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. The research group Mr. McDonald demonstrated that the neutrinos from the Sun were not disappearing on their way to Earth. Instead they were captured with a different identity when arriving to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. 2. Takaaki Kajita | Physics […]
» Read moreThree Telugu Desam Party leaders of G.K. Veedhi were abducted by a group of Maoists on Monday evening, according to reports reaching here. Telugu Desam Mandal party president Mamidi Balayya Padal, senior leader Vandalam Balayya and district committee member Mukkala Mahesh were taken away from their homes at Kothaguda village on Monday evening by a group of Maoists. On Tuesday […]
» Read moreThe National Jute Board (NJB) in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur is developing jute-based sanitary pads which could help prevent cervical cancer. “We are carrying out trials and now we are trying to scale up production after initial production and encouraging feedback,” NJB secretary Arvind Kumar M said on Tuesday. IIT – Kharagpur scientist B Adhikary […]
» Read moreNew Delhi: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) established the world’s highest terrestrial centre at 17,600 feet above sea level at Changla near Pengong lake in Ladakh. The centre will serve as a natural cold storage for preserving rare and endangered medical plants for generations to come. The centre was inaugurated by Director General, DRDO Dr S Christopher. According to […]
» Read moreAir India, which will introduce a direct flight connecting New Delhi and San Francisco from December, has offered complementary domestic Executive (Business) Class return tickets for First Class and Business Class passengers who would be booking in this new sector. This flight, Air India’s longest ever, was announced by Prime Minister Narandra Modi during his visit to San Francisco last […]
» Read moreE-commerce giant Flipkart announced appointment of Sriram Venkataraman, as the CFO for its commerce platform and Pramod Jain as Vice President and Head of Taxation.
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