2. Nat Research Professor at the National Centre for
Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
Obaid Siddiqi, died in a Bangalore hospital on Friday. He was 81.
3. Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has cancelled results of examinations, declared on the basis of a controversial reservation policy, evoking sharp reactions from pro-reservation students who went on the rampage accusing the ruling Samajwadi Party of "betrayal".
4. US President Barack Obama has nominated an Indian-American legal luminary, Vince Girdhari Chhabria to a key judiciary post in California.
5. Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to face trial on pimping charges, French prosecutors say.
6. A state funeral is being held for Tunisian opposition leader Mohamed Brahmiwho was killed on Thursday by gunmen in the capital, Tunis.
7. Rampur today become the first city of North India where ATM facility will be available for people maintaining accounts in co-operative banks.
8. In a bid to make sanitation for all a global development priority, the United Nations General Assembly designated 19 November as World Toilet Day, urging changes in both behaviour and policy on issues ranging from enhancing water management to ending open-air defecation.
9. UK scientists have designed a concept mission to land astronauts on Mars by 2021 - 12 years before Nasa expects to send a manned mission to the Red Planet.
10. The government has told the Supreme Court that a new law is being framed to regulate clinical trials in the country.
3. Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has cancelled results of examinations, declared on the basis of a controversial reservation policy, evoking sharp reactions from pro-reservation students who went on the rampage accusing the ruling Samajwadi Party of "betrayal".
4. US President Barack Obama has nominated an Indian-American legal luminary, Vince Girdhari Chhabria to a key judiciary post in California.
5. Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to face trial on pimping charges, French prosecutors say.
6. A state funeral is being held for Tunisian opposition leader Mohamed Brahmiwho was killed on Thursday by gunmen in the capital, Tunis.
7. Rampur today become the first city of North India where ATM facility will be available for people maintaining accounts in co-operative banks.
8. In a bid to make sanitation for all a global development priority, the United Nations General Assembly designated 19 November as World Toilet Day, urging changes in both behaviour and policy on issues ranging from enhancing water management to ending open-air defecation.
9. UK scientists have designed a concept mission to land astronauts on Mars by 2021 - 12 years before Nasa expects to send a manned mission to the Red Planet.
10. The government has told the Supreme Court that a new law is being framed to regulate clinical trials in the country.
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