Delhi, Nov. 17
Union Minister of Education Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal, “Nishank” today virtuallylaunched Lilavati Award-2020: AICTE's Innovative education program to empower women. With women empowerment as the theme, the objective of the award is to create awareness about issues like sanitation, hygiene, health, nutrition, literacy, employment, technology, credit, marketing, innovation, skill development, natural resources and rights among women. Prof. Rajiv...
Shimla, Nov. 17 Keekli Bureau
2008
The first film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular Twilight Saga, a vampire-themed series of novels for teenagers, premiered in Los Angeles.
1989
Massive antigovernment demonstrations in Czechoslovakia were set off by police brutality at a demonstration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the suppression of a student demonstration in German-occupied Prague, and, under the leadership of Václav Havel,...
Delhi, Nov. 16
Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has today issued a public notice to facilitate eligible entities involved in uploading/streaming of news and current affairs through digital media, to comply with the decision of Union Government on 18th September 2019, which had permitted 26% FDI under Government approval route.
In a Public Notice, available on its website, the Ministry has...
Shimla, Nov. 16 Keekli Bureau
2006
American economist Milton Friedman, who was a leading proponent of monetarism and won the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, died at age 94.
1988
Benazir Bhutto, elected prime minister of Pakistan on this day in 1988, became the first woman in modern history to lead a Muslim country, serving as prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and...
Shimla, Nov. 15 Keekli Bureau
2011
Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski recorded his 903rd career win, surpassing Bob Knight to become the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men's history.
2001
Microsoft released Xbox, a video game console system.
1978
American anthropologist Margaret Mead, whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the...
Category Classes 9-12
First: Anwesha Naskar; Class 10; School Behala Girl's High School, Behala, Kolkata; World Peace
Second: G. Emora Mercy; Class 12; Jayarrajesh Matric. Hr. Sec. School, Tamil Nadu; World Peace
Third: Sonia Kanwar; Class 11; Dayanand Public School, Shimla; World Peace
Consolation: Ashmit Sarmaik; Class 12; DAV Public School, Shimla; World Peace
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Category Classes 5-8
First: Aisha Panda; Class 8; Buxi Jagabandhu English Medium...
Competition Winner Certificates
Dear Keekli Participants,
A slight delay under the dire circumstances of Covid 19, we are pleased to upload the Certificates of all the participants and the winners of the Competition. Winners also may download additional Participation Certificates. Also note all your Poems and Stories will be featured on our website and links will be shared for all to...
Delhi, Nov. 13
Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Professor Ashutosh Sharma, highlighted that a policy on Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR) would be in place in the next few months to create new interfaces between science and society, at a webinar organised on the occasion of World Science Day.
“Connecting science to society can make S&T one of the strongest...
Shimla, Nov. 13 Keekli Bureau
2001
On the heels of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan prompted by the deadly terrorist attacks of September 11, the army of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance captured the capital city of Kabul.
1985
Mount Ruiz in the Cordillera Central of the Andes, in west-central Colombia, erupted twice, burying the town of Armero on the Lagunilla River and killing...
New Delhi, Nov 12
Espousing the spirit of Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat, EBSB club members of Morning Star Home Science College, Angamaly, Ernakulam Kerala prepared and gave a presentation on the rivers of their paired state Himachal Pradesh.
Titled “Exploring the Rivers of Himachal Pradesh: A tribute to the waterbodies of India”, the presentation focused on important rivers of Himachal Pradesh,...
Delhi, Nov. 12
Indian scientists have developed an eco-friendly smart screen from groundnut shells that could help not only in preserving privacy but also in energy conservation by controlling light and heat passing through it and reducing air conditioning load.
A group of researchers led by Prof. S. Krishna Prasad, along with Dr Shankar Rao of the Centre for Nano and Soft...
Shimla, Nov.12 Keekli Bureau
2018
American comic book writer Stan Lee—who helped create such iconic characters and teams as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, and the X-Men for Marvel Comics—died at age 95.
2011
As Italy struggled amid the euro-zone debt crisis, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi submitted his letter of resignation; four days later he was succeeded by Mario Monti.
1994
Sprinter Wilma Rudolph,...