India General Bipin Rawat takes charge as India’s first CDS General Bipin Rawat took charge as India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) on 1 January 2020 and will now serve as the principal military ...
India Nirav Modi declared fugitive economic offender Nirav Modi was declared a fugitive economic offender by a special court of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Mumbai on 5 December 2019 on a plea ...
India Ayodhya verdict announced The long-awaited Ayodhya Land Dispute verdict was delivered by the 5-judge Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, on 9 November 2019. The Bench ruled in favour of ...
India India Innovation Index 2019: Karnataka tops state list, Delhi tops in UTs NITI Aayog released the third edition of India Innovation Index on 17 October 2019. Karnataka topped the list of the most innovative ...
San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company, OpenAI has built a humanoid robotic hand capable of solving a Rubik’s cube. The development of the robot, Dactyl, marks a new milestone in the organisation’s quest for building ...
India India’s tallest air traffic control tower inaugurated in Delhi The Minister of Civil Aviation, Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated the nation’s tallest Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New ...
India Ravish Kumar wins 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award Senior Indian journalist, Ravish Kumar was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s highest civilian honour, on 2 August 2019. Kumar has become the first Hindi journalist to ...
India Union Budget 2019-20: Highlights Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, announced the maiden budget of the second innings of the Modi government in Parliament on 5 July 2019. The total expenditure ...
India BSP–SP alliance called off After analysing the Lok Sabha 2019 election results, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati called off its alliance with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP). Blaming SP for their ...
India INS Ranjit decommissioned after 36 years of service The Indian Navy’s frontline missile destroyer, INS Ranjit, was decommissioned (removed from service) at the Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam, on 6 May 2019, after serving the navy ...