Pramila Jayapal first Indian American woman to preside over US house.  She is the first elected to Congress in 2016 preside over the House and served the most diverse Congress in the nation's history. She presided over the House as a Temporary Speaker.  The House Democrats rotate ...

Forbes magazine has named Rihanna as the world’s richest female musician.Rihanna's Fenty Beauty brand business endeavors have officially made her the richest female musician in the world. Her worth is estimated at $600m (£472m) which includes revenues made ...

Indian Railways received an order for 25 more energy efficient retrofit electrical locomotives from the public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).  The achievement is significant before Environment Day is being celebrated all over the world.  A major technological leap achieved by the ...

Sidharth Rawat won his title in the $25,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament. Last year he won with Manish Sureshkumar for doubles. He is associated with coach Gaurav Sharma for nearly 15 years. He improved his current rank of 510 from 430. He defeated Shintaro Imai of Japan and Lost to ...

China launched a space rocket from the sea for the first time on 5 June 2019.  With this China will be the third nation to successfully demonstrate the ability to launch satellites into orbit from a floating platform following the U.S. and Russia. In the ...

Finance Minister Shri Nirmala Sitharaman attend the two-day meeting of G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors in Japan on June 8 and 9 It is the first overseas visit of Sitharaman as the Finance Minister. She took charge as full time finance ...

Google's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai and Nasdaq President Adena Friedman selected for Global Leadership Awards 2019 by business advocacy group USIBC. They both are recognized for their companies contribution as the leading technology-driven platforms Washington-based US-India ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new government has shifted its focus to the allied issue of water after the country-wide sanitation drive with the Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end on October 2, 2019. The focus will is carried out by the Ministry of Jal Shakti. Objective: ...

The first tourist train traveling through Russia's Arctic region and on to Norway set off from Saint Petersburg station Wednesday with 91 passengers aboard for the inaugural trial journey. "The Arctic fascinates everybody," said Nurlan Mukash, executive director of the German Lernidee ...

10th National Science Film Festival of India would be held here in January- February to popularize science films and literature, where at least ten countries would participate, a minister said on Thursday. State Science and Technology minister, Sudip Roy Burman said, Vigyan Prasar of the ...

Sachin Bansal, Flipkart ex-CEO and BAC Acquisitions co-founder, has joined Ujjivan Small Finance Bank’s board as an independent director. This move becomes significant when we look at what Bansal has been trying at for the past 9-10 months. His plan was to open a bank, but for that he had to ...

A Two-day Yoga Mahotsava, a Curtain Raiser for International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2019 was organized in New Delhi. It was inaugurated by the Vice-Chairman, NITI AYOG Rajeev Kumar.  Organised by:The Yoga Mahotsav-2019 was organized by Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) under Ministry of ...