Delhi, Dec. 9
The following Recruitment Results have been finalized by the Union Public Service Commission during the month of September and October 2020. The recommended candidates have been informed individually by post.
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Shimla, Dec. 9 Keekli Bureau
2016
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye was impeached by the National Assembly amid allegations of corruption; she left office the following year, after the country's Constitutional Court upheld the parliamentary decision.
1998
The United Nations General Assembly declared anti-Semitism a form of racism.
1990
Slobodan Milošević was reelected president of Serbia at the head of the Socialist Party, formerly the...
Shimla, Dec. 8 Keekli Bureau
2016
American astronaut and politician John Glenn—who was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, for which he was regarded as a national hero—died at age 95.
2010
The American aerospace venture SpaceX became the first commercial company to release a spacecraft—the Dragon capsule—into orbit and successfully return it to Earth.
2004
Mia Hamm, a leading figure in U.S. women's...
Shimla, Dec. 6 Keekli Bureau
2006
NASA released images—taken by the Mars Global Surveyor—that indicated the relatively recent presence of water on Mars.
1992
The Babri Masjid (“Mosque of Bābur”) in Ayodhya was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists, leading to Hindu-Muslim riots throughout India.
1973
Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president of the United States, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.
1969
Violence at...
Shimla, Dec.5 Keekli Bureau
2017
The International Olympic Committee banned Russia from the 2018 Winter Games in P'yŏngch'ang, South Korea, after uncovering a Russian state-sponsored doping program.
2013
South African nationalist and statesman Nelson Mandela, who helped end the country's apartheid system of racial segregation and ushered in a peaceful transition to majority rule, died at age 95.
2012
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer—an early exponent...
Shimla, Dec.5 - National Education Policy 2020 aims at addressing many growing developmental imperatives of our country and revamping all aspects of the education structure, including its regulation and governance, to create a new system that is aligned with the aspirational goals of 21st-century education. This was stated by the Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur while addressing a Webinar on...
New Delhi, Dec 4
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on Friday said the National Education Policy 2020 is designed keeping in mind the overall development of students and will prove to be a game changer for the entire education system.
Addressing the ninth convocation of IIT Bhubaneswar here virtually, Dr Pokhriyal said "Education is a long-term investment, which will benefit...
Delhi, Dec. 3
Young scientists shared their innovative ideas in a range of thematic areas in the five days Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Young Scientist Conclave which concluded recently. The areas included agriculture and food processing; sustainable energy and energy storage; biotechnology and bioengineering; combating COVID-19 and emerging pandemics through research and innovation; environmental protection and natural resource management,
22 young scientists...
शिमला, 03 दिसम्बर - अमरूत मिशन के तहत शिमला व कुल्लू जिला को 304 करोड़ रुपये का प्रावधान किया गया है, जिसके अंतर्गत 86 करोड़ 40 लाख रुपये विभिन्न परियोजनाओं पर खर्च कर कार्य पूर्ण किया जा रहा है तथा शेष परियोजनाओं का कार्य प्रगति पर है। यह विचार आज शहरी विकास, आवास, नगर नियोजन एवं संसदीय कार्य मंत्री...
Shimla, Dec. 3
2000
Gwendolyn Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who spoke of and to the everyday struggles and triumphs of African Americans, died in Chicago.
1967
Christiaan Barnard of South Africa performed the first human heart transplant, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
1947
Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on Broadway, starring Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Marlon Brando; the latter...
Shimla, Dec 2, Keekli Bureau
2014
Canadian ice hockey player Jean Béliveau, considered one of the game's greatest centres, noted for his prolific scoring, died at age 83.
2001
Following revelations of massive accounting fraud, Enron filed for bankruptcy protection; the energy-trading company was once the seventh largest corporation in the United States.
1993
Colombian criminal Pablo Escobar—who, as head of the Medellín cartel, was...
हिमाचल में विकलांगता नीति बनाने की मांग
शिमला, 2 दिसम्बर - हिमाचल प्रदेश राज्य विकलांगता सलाहकार बोर्ड के सदस्य और उमंग फाउंडेशन के अध्यक्ष प्रो. अजय श्रीवास्तव ने कहा है कि मुख्यमंत्री जयराम ठाकुर सभी स्कूलों और कॉलेजों में हिमाचल प्रदेश विश्वविद्यालय की तर्ज़ पर सुगम्य पुस्तकालय बनाने का वादा पूरा करें। उन्होंने मांग की कि प्रदेश में नई राज्य...