Brazil’s besieged president, Dilma Rousseff, has lost a major battle after the federal audit court rejected her government’s accounts from 2014, paving the way for her opponents to try to … Read More
Swedish Academy praises Belarusian writer’s work as a ‘monument to suffering in our time’ Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian writer whose oral histories have recorded thousands of individual voices to map … Read More
Scientists have unveiled how continents were formed on Earth over 2.5 billion years ago – and how those processes have continued for the last 70 million years to profoundly affect … Read More
New research from the University of Oxford shows that scientists have created an ultra-fast memory chip that uses light to store information, as CDs and DVDs do. The research, conducted … Read More
Social Economic and Caste Census The new Social Economic and Caste Census was released on 2 July 2015. However, despite the name, the census does not include caste. The SECC 2011, … Read More
P-notes, or participatory notes, are a way for foreigners to invest in the Indian markets without registering themselves with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). P-Notes are for individuals … Read More
Titan arum is a giant flower, said to be one of the world’s oldest and largest species. In July 2015 it bloomed at a Tokyo park for the first time … Read More
5th September is being observed as National Teachers Day. Significance of Day: This day commemorates the birthday of India’s first Vice President and second President Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. This year’s … Read More
Bandhan Bank has become the first micro-finance company in India to start operation as full-fledged scheduled commercial bank. The bank was inaugurated by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Kolkata, … Read More
Here’s a glossary of stock market terms, suitable for beginners. Stock :Ownership of a corporation indicated by shares, which represent a piece of the corporation’s assets and earnings. Current assets … Read More
