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  1) The Fifth Edition of the World Future Energy Summit was held in a) Abu Dhabi b) New Delhi c) Tehran d) Dhaka Ans a ...

1. Name the Nobel Peace Prize winner who was named the winner of one of the world’s leading religion prizes, Templeton Prize for 2012 b...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in its report Living Planet Report 2012 released on 15 May 2012 noted that Biodiversity has decreased by an ...

Sports Authority of India(SAI) has established various sports Science Centres in the country for the purpose of training of sportspersons...

Rejecting the celebration of World Migratory Bird Day at a time when no migrant birds could be spotted in India, a section of ornitholog...

Pursuant to the recommendations of the Committee on Solid Waste Management for Class-I cities constituted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of...

Authoritative information regarding import of weapons by China is not available. However, as per report published in March 2012 by the St...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) formed an Eminent Persons Advisory Group (EPAG) on 7 May 2012.  The group is constituted to pro...

The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Statistics and Programme Implementation Shri Srikant Kumar Jena has said that Employment a...

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) was established on 12 July 1982 by an Act of the Parliament for providing an...

The government has initiated a number of schemes to promote education among girls in the country. Under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)...

Planning Commission had constituted a High Level Committee on financial sector reforms under the Chairmanship of Shri Raghuram G. Rajan, ...

Some of the key achievements under National Rural Health Mission are: 1. Accelerated improvements in key reproductive health indicators e...

Total Sanitation Campaign, TSC, now underway in 607 rural districts covering all the States and Union Territories is expected to be complete...

Ministry of Panchayati Raj had prepared a Draft Nyaya Panchayat (NP) Bill to provide for the establishment of Nyaya Panchayats at the level ...

India, according to a report published by the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) and McAfee on 6 May 2012, ranked fifth in the list of countr...

The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Kumari Selja has said that Housing and Slum development being State subjec...

At National Workshop is held at New Delhi on India’s National communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ...

The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), which became operational from 01.04.2008, is presently being implemented in 24 States/Union T...

Yesteryear actress Sushma Seth and Miss India World Vinya Mishra were awarded with Kalpana Chawla excellence award on 6 May 2012 at Mavlan...

India, according to a report published by the Security and Defence Agenda (SDA) and McAfee on 6 May 2012, ranked fifth in the list of cou...

Vladimir Putin the former Russian Prime Minister and the president of the United Russia Party took the oath as the President of Russia on ...

List of Central Banks of Top 15 countries in the world. The list of Top 15 countries is according to the list of International Monetary ...

Noted Tamil writer Ashokamitran, known for his novel Thanneer and other works was declared the recipient of the 6 NTR National Literary Aw...

A Joint Communique was issued highlighting the importance of joint Indo- Bangla celebrations to mark the 150 th Birth Anniversary of Rab...

Conservative Boris Johnson has been re-elected for a second term as Mayor of London in a tight race with Labour Party challenger Ken Livi...

In a development that is likely to buoy the Obama White House's election prospects in November, the U.S. economy's unemployment r...

The European country which ordered shutdown of its seven (total seventeen) oldest nuclear power plants pending safety revi...