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• Oct 29, 2015

•  Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan will be inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in London [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  About Babasaheb Ambedkar: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, popularly known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer. He was Independent India՚s first law minister and the principal architect of the Constitution of India

  • In 1990, the Bharat Ratna, India՚…

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•  India-Africa Forum Summit 2015 will be held - From 26^th October to 29^th October in New Delhi [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  The India-Africa Forum Summit is the official platform for the African - Indian relations. The two previous India - Africa summits were held in 2008 and 2011. In the largest - ever gathering of African leaders in India, at least 41 leaders - including South African president Jaco…

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•  US President assigns Brett McGurk as Special ambassador to US-led alliance for fighting IS [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  About Brett McGurk: McGurk was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 20 April 1973. He graduated from Conard High School in 1991. McGurk is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law.

  • After his graduation, McGurk work for three successive clerkships, at increasingly higher ran…

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• Oct 26, 2015

•  Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President bestowed with 2015 Confucius Peace Prize by China [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  Robert Mugabe: Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21^st February 1924. Currently, he is the President of Zimbabwe and serving since 31^st December 1987 to till date. As one of the leaders of the dissident groups against white minority rule, he was elected as Prime Minister in 1980 a…

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•  Joanna Aizenberg awarded with George Ledlie Prize [ Awards ]

  Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber has announced that Professor Joanna Aizenberg receive the George Ledlie Prize. Her work across a number of chemical, engineering, and biological fields has had a positive impact on myriad areas of human endeavor, has been selected.

  • Aizenberg joins a …

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•  Pijush Ganguly a Bengali actor passes away [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  Bengali film, television and stage actor Pijush Ganguly passed away in Kolkata, West Bengal. He was of 50 years. He died of multiple organ failure after he was critically injured in a road accident at Santragachi in Howrah district.

  About Piyush Ganguly:

  • He was born on 2 January 19…

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• Oct 23, 2015

•  Singapore’s GIC forms Joint Venture with Tishman Speyer to invest in Indian office project [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  About GIC: GIC is stands for Government Investment Corporation. GIC Private Limited is formerly known as Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. It is an independent wealth fund recognized by the Government of Singapore in 1981 to manage Singapore՚s foreign investments.

  • On…

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•  Western Digital (WD) purchase SanDisk in $19 billion [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  Western Digital is an America based computer data Storage Company and one of the largest manufacturers of computer hard disk drive in the world with Seagate Technology. Seagate Technology is an America based data storage company.

  • It was integrated as Shugart Technology in 1978.
  • Fro…

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•  No revised returns will be acceptable under GST [ Bills ]

  About GST: GST stands for Goods and Service Tax Bill. It is also officially known as The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty - Second Amendment) Bill, 2014. It offers a national Value added Tax to be implemented in India from April 2016.

  • Goods and Services Tax would be a complete…

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•  UN Reports that Mortality rate of Indian girls below five years is higher than the boys [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  What is Mortality Rate? Mortality rate is also called as death rate. It is measured by the number of deaths in a specific population which is scaled of size of that population, per unit of time.

  About the UN reports of Mortality rate:

  • United Nations reports that mortality rate of I…

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