1. Kargil Vijay Diwas was observed today (26th July) across India today. Defence Minister AK Antony and the three service chiefs paid homage to Kargil martyrs at Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate today. Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated on 26th July every year in honour of the Kargil War's Heroes.
2. INSAT 3D, India's advanced and most sophisticated weather satellite, was launched successfully in the early hours of today, 26th July, 2013 by European space consortium Arianespace's Ariane 5 ECA VA214 rocket launched INSAT-3D and Alphasat satellites from Kourou, French Guiana.INSAT-3D had a lift-off mass of 2060kg. INSAT-3D also carried the newly developed 19 channel sounder, the first such payload to be flown on an ISRO satellite mission.
3. India's largest listed real estate company, DLF Limited, has announced that it will to sell its 74% stake in a life insurance joint venture with Prudential International Insurance Holdings Ltd (PIIHL) named as DLF Pramerica Life Insurance Co. Ltd to Dewan Housing Finance Corp. Ltd. PIIHL is a unit of US-based Prudential Financial, Inc.
4. In a major reshuffle of its top management, FMCG major Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) has appointed Sanjiv Mehta as its new CEO and Managing Director. Nitin Paranjpe, the current Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of HUL, has been elevated as the President (Home Care), at the parent company Unilever with effect from 1st October 2013. He was the CEO for last 5 years.
5 . The sixth Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards were presented by Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam today. The awards acknowledged the outstanding contributions of India's 29 finest journalists.The Express Group instituted the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards on memory of its founder Ramnath Goenka.
1. In order to make sanitation for all a global development priority, the United Nations General Assembly has designated 19th November as World Toilet Day today. Also it urges changes in both behavior and policy on issues ranging from enhancing water management to ending open-air defecation. As per UN, among the 7 billion people in the world, 2.5 billion do not have access to proper sanitation and around 1.1 billion still defecate in the open
2. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who exposed the most extensive US global surveillance operations, was awarded German “Whistleblower Prize” for 2013 yesterday which is worth of USD 3,900. “Mr Snowden has done a great public service by exposing the massive and unsuspecting monitoring and storage of communication data by US and other western intelligence agencies, which cannot be accepted in democratic societies,” Berlin-based whistleblower prize jury said in a statement.
3. Britain's Chris Froome won the 100th edition of the Tour de France. With this, it is Britain's second successive victory in the race - Froome's Team Sky colleague Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win it last year.
Name the movie which has been jointly being produced by ASSOCHAM and Rai Foundation with the objective of creating awareness and encouraging corporates to come forward in undertaking welfare measures (2012)
United State of America on 18 June 2013 announced that it will held direct peace talks with Taliban. The announcement from US came after Taliban opened its first political office at ______________. The office has been opened to help in ending the 12 years old conflict. To bring the talks in process, US agreed to drop the series of preconditions that have held back the negotiations, previously.
_______launched a series of satellites which is supposed to provide fast, cheap, internet and phone service to remote areas in 180 countries.(June 2013)
Which indian famous sand artist won the grand prize at the Copenhagen International Sand Sculpture Festival in Denmark for his Sculpture on environment held in May 2013?
