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Tata Sons appoints Cyrus Mistry as it Chairman

December 19, 2012

Cyrus P Mistry will be the Chairman of Tata Sons from December 28 following retirement of Ratan N Tata. Ratan Tata will be conferred with the honorary title of Chairman Emeritus. Mistry has also been appointed as the Chairman of ..

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New UN telecommunication treaty inked amid splits

December 19, 2012

89 member countries on UN signed the first new U.N. telecommunications treaty introduced by U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union or ITU since the Internet age amid disapproval from the U.S. and other Western nations which refused to join. Why the US ..

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Moon crash site named after Sally Ride

December 19, 2012

NASA has honored Sally Ride, the first woman in space who died  earlier this year, by naming a crash site of a pair of spacecrafts Ebb and Flow. Both were deliberately crashed into a mountain near the moon’s north pole. ..

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Rajya Sabha approves controversial Quota Bill by huge majority

December 19, 2012

Rajya Sabha passed a Constitution (117th Amendment) Bill, 2012, providing for quota for SCs and STs in government job promotions with an overwhelming vote of 206 in the 245-member House. The Bill was vociferously opposed by members of Samajwadi Party ..

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India successfully test-fires Agni-I ballistic missile

December 19, 2012

The Strategic Force Command of the Indian Army conducted a successful practice trial of indigenously developed nuclear capable Agni-I ballistic missile with a strike range of 700 km from a test range off Odisha coast. Agni-I is developed by DRDO ..

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Longest extraterrestrial River discovered on Saturn's moon Titan

December 19, 2012

Images from NASA’s Cassini mission have revealed the existence of the longest extraterrestrial river system ever – on Saturn’s moon Titan – and it looks like a small version of Nile River on Earth. The river valley on Titan is ..

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Solution to Global Warming: Re-freeze the Arctic

December 18, 2012

As per a novel solution offered by an American scientist David Keith to tackle global warming, we could refreeze the Arctic by injecting reflective particles into the atmosphere with the help of a few modified jets. These particles would reduce ..

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Rs 1,768 crore spent by Government in the last 3 years to promote its brand

December 18, 2012

As per the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry, the government has spent over Rs 1,768 crore in the last 3 years to publicize itself. The amount has been spent by the Directorate of Audio-Visual Publicity (DAVP) in advertisements and publicity ..

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