- The 18th SAARC Summit commenced here Wednesday morning. Apart from host Nepal, all seven heads of state and government are in Kathmandu to attend the summit.
- MGNREGS has come to halt in Odisha due to paucity of funds, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today asked the centre to immediately release Rs 1195.40 crore to the state, to resume it.
- President Pranab Mukherjee today urged the private sector to work for enhancing quality of higher technical education in the country in view of changing global situation.
- Tennis players Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovicwill start the new season at the Brisbane International here, the only premier-level event in the opening week of 2015, organisers confirmed Wednesday.
- The US space agency NASA is planning to kickstart a challenge for developing airships that can break records in terms of duration of flight at high altitudes.
- Micro-blogging site Twitter has launched a new feature where retailers will tweet special offers that can be used to get money back on certain purchases.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation in paying homage to the martyrs and victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks sixth anniversary on Wednesday.
- The Senate Foreign Relations committee has scheduled the confirmation hearing of Indian-American Richard Rahul Verma, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be US Ambassador to India, on December 02.
- The 3D printer at the International Space Station (ISS) has created the first printed object in space – a part of the printer itself – paving the way to future long-term space expeditions.
- Over 7,000 sq km of the seafloor has been scoured so far but no debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has been found, the chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) for the search of the missing airliner said Wednesday.
Sunday 14 December 2014
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