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Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali conferred Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award
Noted filmmaker and Poet, Muzaffar Ali (69), has been conferred 22nd Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi, the president of All-India Congress Committee (AICC), presented him the award. Muzaffar Ali has been honored ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2014
Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News
KV Thomas is new Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
Prof. Kuruppassery Varkey Thomas has been appointed as Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Thomas is the senior Congress Parliamentarian from Ernakulum Constituency, Kerala. The position was previously held by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi and had chairman of PAC ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2014
Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News
Yoga exponent B.K.S. Iyengar passed away
Globally acclaimed yoga exponent B.K.S. Iyengar (95) passed away in Pune. Born in Karnataka’s Kolar district in 1918 and enervated by maladies since his childhood, he codified Patanjali’s yoga sutras in an ingeniously dynamic yoga style which came to be ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2014
Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News
Facts about National Day Rally 2014
The National Day Rally, 2014 at Singapore was smoothly carried out with its set of some remarkable features. The PM makes it pleasurable enough for all to watch and ensures to add some new twitch to the speech every year. ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2014
Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs
India and Czech Republic to cooperate in the field of Railways
India’s Ministry of Railways and Czech Railways (Ceske Drahy) of the Czech Republic and Association of Czech Railway Industry (ACRI) of the Czech Republic inked an MoU on Technical Cooperation in the railway sector. As per the MoU, potential areas ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2014
What is going on at Ferguson, USA?
The little town of Ferguson, St. Louis USA has been boiling with violence and protests after the brutal shooting of a black teenager Micheal Brown by a white cop Darren Wilson on August 09, 2014. Protests The city which is ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2014
Category: International / World Current Affairs
Skateboarding King Jay Adams Dies at 53
Skateboarding is an action sport where the rider performs various tricks and stunts with the skateboard. It started with a recreational activity but gradually transformed itself into full-time sport. It is said to have taken shape in 1950-60s when the ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2014
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Everything you want to know about Ebola
Ebola Virus Disease or Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever is fast making its presence felt along the length and breadth of African continent as its recorded and verified spread which started from Guinea has engulfed Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. The disease ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2014
Category: International / World Current Affairs