National
Hong Kong revokes visa-free entry to Indians
Hong Kong, a China-administered special territory has decided to withdraw visa-free facility for Indians from January 23, 2017............Read More
Long range nuclear-capable subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay testfired
Long range nuclear-capable subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay was testfired from the launch complex 3 of the Integrated Missile Test Range in Balasore, Odisha.............Read More
Science and Technology
Scientists witness the birth of an ice cloud for the first time
US based researchers for the first time have observed the creation of ice crystals on individual atmospheric particles in the laboratory.............Read More
Awards
Kaisa Matomaki, Maksym Radziwill win 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan award
Kaisa Matomaki and Maksym Radziwill have been jointly won the 2016 SASTRA-Ramanujan award for mathematics for their ‘revolutionary’ collaborative work on short intervals in number theory. Their mathematical work dwells on properties of numbers in “short intervals.”............Read More
Business and Economy
Union Cabinet approves ordinance to pay salaries by cheques
The Union Cabinet has approved a draft ordinance to empower states and allow industries to pay workers’ wages digitally, through a direct bank transfer to accounts or by cheque in a bid to encourage cashless transactions.............Read More
India surpasses Britain to become world’s sixth-largest economy: Forbes magazine
According to report published in Forbes magazine, India has surpassed its colonial masters United Kingdom to become world’s sixth-largest economy in GDP terms for first time after nearly 150 years.............Read More
Special Days
December 22: National Mathematics Day
The National Mathematics Day is observed every year on 22nd December to celebrate birth anniversary of great Indian autodidact Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. This year, it is 129th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan.............Read More
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