18 Aug : India will host the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), the largest congregation of mathematicians from across the globe, for the first time in Hyderabad, beginning on Thursday.
President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate the nine-day event at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Over 3,000 delegates from about 75 countries will attend the ICM being held under the auspices of International Mathematical Union (IMU).

The President will present the Fields Medals, the highest award in Mathematics and considered the equivalent of Nobel Prize, to four mathematicians in recognition …

21 Mar : India on Sunday became the first country to have a ‘manoeuvrable’ supersonic cruise missile when it successfully test-fired the vertical-launch version of 290-km range BrahMos from a warship in the Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast.
“The vertical-launch version of missile was launched at 1130 hours today from Indian Navy ship INS Ranvir and it manoeuvred successfully hitting the target ship. It was a perfect hit and a perfect mission,” BrahMos aerospace chief A Sivathanu Pillai told the news agency.
After today’s test, India has become the first …

19 Mar : Noted lyricist Javed Akhtar and Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar were on Friday nominated to Rajya Sabha along with three others.

Noted economist and former Planning Commission member Bhalchandra Mungekar, Educationist Ram Dayal Munda and theatre personality B Jayshree are the other three who have been nominated by President Pratibha Patil.
There were 12 vacancies of nominated members in Rajya Sabha. Recently six people including noted journalist H K Dua were nominated by the President.
Under Article of 80 of the Constitution, the President nominates members from the fields of …

2 oct :  The nation celebrates the 140th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and 105th birth anniversary of India’s second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on Friday.
Special prayers are being held at Raj ghat to commemorate the father of the nation. President Pratibha Patil is scheduled to visit Porbandar, where she will pay her tributes and also participate in an all faith prayer organized at Mahatma Gandhi’s birth place Kirtimandir.
She will also visit Kanya Gurukul there as part of her five-day visit to Gujarat.On this occasion the Centre’s flagship National …

30 Sep :  Seeking international cooperation in its efforts for a major expansion in the nuclear programme, India said benefits of atomic energy should not remain confined to a “privileged few” as it was vital to meet power requirements of developing countries.
“We need the concerted and collective efforts of the international community to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy as widely as possible,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said at a function where IAEA chief Mohammad ElBaradei was conferred the coveted Indira Gandhi Peace Prize.
He said India is now poised for …