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On the occasion of International Day of Yoga on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, the Prime Minister participated in a mass Yoga demonstration event in Lucknow where thousands of people gathered at the Ramabai Ambedkar Maidan despite continuous rain in the city. Addressing them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed his greetings from Lucknow to all those joining the Yoga Day celebrations ...

As news of first Batman actor died of Leukemia disturbed many on Saturday, came another news cheering those suffering from blood cancer that a new drug has proved successful to treat the disease. Leukaemia is a disease where the body produces too many white blood cells and not enough red blood cells. The new drug, developed by Srividya Bhaskara, an ...

As decided in the 14th Meeting of the GST Council held on 18th-19th May, 2017 in Srinagar, 18 Sectoral Groups have been constituted representing various sectors of the economy in order to ensure smooth roll-out of GST. These 18 Sectoral Groups representing various sectors of the economy and containing Senior Officers of the Centre and the States are being set-up ...

The Union Minister for Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs, Mr Arun Jaitley will chair the 16th Meeting of the GST Council scheduled to be held on Sunday, 11th June, 2017 at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi. The one day Meeting will also be attended among others by the Finance Ministers of different States and UTs (having elected assembly) being the ...

The Union Minister for Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs, Mr Arun Jaitley will chair a meeting of CMDs/CEOs of the Public Sector Banks to review their performance on 12th June, 2017 in New Delhi. This will be the First Meeting in the Current Financial Year 2017-18 which will discuss issues and solutions relating to Non Performing Assets (NPAs) of the Public ...

The Supreme Court in its judgement has upheld Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act,1961 as constitutionally valid which required quoting of the Aadhaar number in applying for PAN as well as for filing of income tax returns. The Court also held that the “Parliament was fully competent to enact Section 139AA of the Act and its authority to make ...

NASA has decided to explore the deep sea ecology on Earth before sending humans to explore the possible water resources on Mars in future. A team of 22 persons will take up the deep sea expedition to test spacewalk simulation, time delays in space communication and the effect of ketogenic (high-fat, low-carb) diet on astronauts. As part of NASA’s Extreme Environment ...

A team of archaeologists found fossil bones of Homo sapiens along with stone tools and animal bones at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco dated back to about 300,000 years ago and the oldest ever securely dated fossil evidence of humans, almost 100,000 years earlier than the previous oldest Homo sapiens fossils ever found. The fossil find by an international research team led ...

NASA has unveiled next Mars Rover described as “Out of the World” research station destined for the red planet in 2020 in search of aliens or microbial life beneath the water sources found already with its unique capability to collect core samples and possibly return them Earth in the future. The rover will conduct geological assessments of its landing site ...

With Arun Shourie and other journalists supporting Prannoy Roy over the CBI raids on an ICICI Bank default case involving Rs.48 crore, the stark question is whether it was an isolated incident of financial impropriety or muzzling press freedom by the authorities. Ironic but the answer is positive for both. The bank loan issue relates to an old 2008 case ...