According to a newly released Census data, population of students in India drastically increased by 38% from 2001 to 2011. This is a tremendous growth if compared with the overall population grown in the same period, which was about 18%.
Australian Paul Royle, who was one of 76 airmen who escaped from notorious Nazi Stalag Luft III camp in Nazi Germany in 1944 died at the age of 101. Paul and his fellow soldier’s courageous feat was immortalised in the 1963 film The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen.
According to recent announcement made by Mark Zuckerberg, for the first time in the history of Facebook, one billion people used Facebook in a single day.
To commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in 2016, the government of India has decided to mint a coin of Rs 125.
According to an RTI response from home ministry, 21.4% Indians consume alcohol while 3% are adicetded to cannabis. Moreover, Punjab, Maharashtra, Manipur, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are among the top 10 states where consumption of alcohol and narcotic drugs is higher than the rest of the country.
According to the WHO, India has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus - a swift and painful killer disease that killed 49,000 newborns in 2013 alone.
Jamaican runner Usain Bolt won the 200 meter title at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics held at Beijing in China.
Rajendra Singh, popularly known as the Waterman of India was conferred with the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize - an award popularly known as “the Nobel Prize for water”.
According to an official list of 60 proscribed outfits, Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed-led Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Afghanistan-based dreaded Haqqani network are not banned in Pakistan.
In order to provide healthcare facilities in rural areas, Government of India launched a telemedicine initiative ‘Sehat’. It is to be conducted in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals.
