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Veteran actor Tom Alter dies at 67
Padma Shri awardee and veteran theatre, film and television actor Tom Alter has passed away on 29 September 2017 at his residence in Mumbai. He was 67. Indian actor of American descent, Alter was the son of American missionary parents. He was born in 1950 in Mussoorie. He...
New Governor appointed for Bihar, Tamil nadu, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh
President has appointed 5 New Governors for various states on 30th September 2017. There are New governor appointments:-
Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.) as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh
Shri Satya Pal Malik as the Governor of Bihar
Shri Banwarilal Purohit as the Governor of Tamil Nadu
Prof. Jagdish Mukhi as the Governor of Assam
Shri...
World Tourism Day 2017 - 27 September
World Tourism Day is celebrated across the world on 27th of September. Its purpose is to foster awareness among the international community of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic value.
The theme for World Tourism Day 2017...
Kandla Port renamed as Deendayal Port
Kandla Port, one of the top 12 major ports in the country, has been rechristened as Deendayal Port from Monday in the name of Hindutva icon pandit Deendayal Upadhyay. “Kandla Port Trust is renamed as Deendayal Port Trust with effect from 25 September 2017,” the government...
Tata Sons appoints Eruch N. Kapadia as CFO
Tata Sons, the Tata group’s hoding company, has appointed group veteran Eruch N. Kapadia as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Kapadia, who is vice-president at Tata Sons and a member of the audit committee at Tata Business Support Services, assumed the new role following...
PM launches Pradhan Mantri Saubhagya Yojana
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on 25th September 2017 launched the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, or Saubhagya, at New Delhi. The aim of this scheme is to provide power to all homes. On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay,...
PV Sindhu Nominated for Padma Bhushan Award
Indian shuttler PV Sindhu has been nominated for the prestigious Padma Bhushan award by the Sports Ministry on 25th September 2017. World No. 2 Sindhu has been in stellar form since winning a silver medal at Rio Olympics last year and is the second athlete after cricketer...
The Shershah of Kargil Captain Vikram Batra by Deepak Surana
Kargil war hero Captain Vikram Batra was martyred at the tender age of 24. The biography of Captain Vikram Batra "The Shershah of Kargil" has been written by 21-year-old Deepak Surana.
Though books on Captain Batra have been written before, according to Deepak this is the...
Angela Merkel wins 4th term as German Chancellor
Angela Merkel won a fourth term as chancellor in Germany elections that lifted the far-right party Alternative for Germany into parliament for the first time since the immediate aftermath World War II. Merkel’s Christian Democrat-led bloc took 33% to defeat Martin Schulz’s...
Rajiv Mehrishi sworn in as CAG of India on 25th September 2017
Rajiv Mehrishi was sworn in as the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) of India on 25th September 2017 at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
He took and subscribed to the oath of office before the President. Shri Rajiv Mehrishi will have a tenure till August...
Zannah Mustapha wins 2017 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award 2017
Zannah Mustapha, a champion for the rights of displaced children growing up amid violence in north-eastern Nigeria to get a quality education, has been named the 2017 winner of UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award. Mustapha founded a school in 2007 in Maiduguri – the capital of...
Arvind Subramanian's tenure extended by 1 year as Chief Economic Advisor
Finance Ministry on 23rd September put to rest speculations surrounding chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian's stint as government's man Friday. His tenure has been extended by one year and he will continue to serve the government till October 2018. FInance Minister...
Mary Kom to be AIBA representative at IOC athletes' forum
Five-time world champion and Olympic bronze-medallist M C Mary Kom has become the first Indian to be picked as the International Boxing Association's (AIBA) representative for the IOC Athletes' Forum scheduled in November. The 33-year-old, who is also an active parliamentarian,...
Deendayal Hastkala Sankul, Varanasi
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on 22nd September dedicated to the nation, the Deendayal Hastkala Sankul – a trade facilitation centre for handicrafts – at Varanasi. The Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone of this Centre in November 2014. Today, he visited the Centre,...
President Kovind visits Deekshabhoomi
President Ram Nath Kovind on 22nd September visited Deekshabhoomi to pay respects to Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar in Nagpur, Maharashtra. He was accompanied by Maharashtra Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao, Chief Minister Devendra Fadanavis, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari,...
MS Dhoni nominated for Padma Bhushan
BCCI has nominated MS Dhoni for the Padma Bhushan, the country's third-highest civilian award for his contribution to the game. A senior BCCI official "Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been nominated by the BCCI for the Padma Bhushan award. It was a unanimous decision by the members....
Google acquire Pixel Team of HTC in $1.1 Billion
Google Pays HTC $1.1 Billion to Acquire the Pixel Team, Not Own Their Smartphone Business. Google will also receive non-exclusive license for HTC’s intellectual property. HTC says many of the employees worked with Google to develop the Pixel smartphones. This is seemingly...
How Sardar Sarovar Dam is second largest dam in world?
How Sardar Sarovar Dam is second largest dam in world?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17th September inaugurated and dedicated the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on the Narmada river to the nation, during his visit to Gujarat. The project is expected to benefit the people...
