The last Bharat Ratna award was conferred upon Pranab Mukherjee in 2019 and was posthumously awarded to Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika and Nanaji Deshmukh. The award was not given to anyone between 2020 and 2023.
Till now, the maximum Bharat Ratnas were awarded in 1999 when four recipients were given the coveted award.
Karnataka Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara on Friday said the government has not taken the incident of filming in a washroom in an Udupi college lightly.
The list does not include Jagadish Shettar who met BJP president J P Nadda earlier in the day to stake his claim to contest from his Hubli-Dharwad Central constituency.
Malaysia's Aznil Bin Bidin Muhamad grabbed the gold medal with a Games record lift of 285kg (127+158). Morea Baru of Papua New Guinea bagged the silver with a total lift of 273kg (121+152).
Even as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was defeated in the Karnataka assembly elections, the party retained its traditional stronghold in the coastal region by securing victories in 11 of the 13 constituencies in the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi.
'I cannot describe it in words. It was my dream.'
On a cloudy Monday this month, Mohammed Irshad flew from Kochi to Gurugram to attend an exclusive investor networking event. Among a handful of founders selected for the event, Irshad was to pitch his peer-to-peer learning start-up Notespaedia for funding in front of top venture capital investors such as AngelBay, Elevation Capital, and Inflection Point Ventures. He failed to woo them, but the feisty entrepreneur was determined to continue his hunt.
Jeremy Lalrinnunga smashed two Games records on his way to a sensational gold medal win
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'It was more than ego.' 'It carried with it a sincere belief that he was the quintessence of the country, that the country's destiny was irrevocably intertwined with his destiny.' An excerpt from T J S George's The Dismantling of India: In 35 Portraits.
Gururaj Jaggesh makes a good debut in the Kannada remake of the Tamil film Raghava Loki.
Jeremy stamps class on CWG debut, India climb to sixth in medal table
Stalwarts come together to harness the power of the Indian-American community. Aziz Haniffa reports.
The Nasdaq-listed company, which develops and markets bandwidth management solutions for fixed line and mobile network operators worldwide, shot into fame during the earlier technology bubble with market capitalisation at one point of time touching as high as $18 billion.
Jaggesh's maiden directorial venture Guru with his son Gururaj in the lead, is hitting the screens this Friday.
To promote entrepreneurship in India's tier-II and tier-III cities, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Gururaj 'Desh' Deshpande's Deshpande Foundation will open the sandbox in Hubballi. Alnoor Peermohamed reports.
In the last three years, photographer Zakia Shakir has zigzagged across the world to train her camera on some of India's most famous men.
The film has some real funny moments that keep the audience engaged and entertained.
India-born Gururaj Deshpande, chairman of Tejas Networks, A123 and Akshaya Patra, has been appointed co-chairman of United States President Barack Obama's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He will support Obama's innovation strategy by helping develop policies that foster entrepreneurship, create jobs and drive economic growth.
A serial entrepreneur, according to the Wikipedia definition, is one who continuously comes up with new ideas and invests in new businesses. While there is no data on serial entrepreneurs in India, industry experts say the trend is on the rise.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation USA's Chicago chapter raised over $41,000 to educate poor children in India during its annual Food for Education benefit at Waterford Banquets in Elmhurst, May 1.
US President Bill Clinton made an impassioned plea to them to continue their work in making the innovative technology create a better world.
Rediff.com introduces you to the athletes who have brought India glory in Birmingham.
With the mantras 'Explore, Dream, Discover,' the 17th edition of the three-day Network of Indian Professionals in North America (NetIP) conference to be held in Boston offers to the 800 participants opportunities to hear industry leaders and stalwart professors, including Gururaj 'Desh' Deshpande of Sycamore Networks; Tarun Khanna, professor at Harvard University Business School; and Vikram Akula of SKS Microfinance.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The scholars are awarded for their outstanding scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others and to the common good.
Gururaj Kishore is being questioned as he was a suspect and "if he is involved, we will arrest him", the police said
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'Some of these companies are India focused, some are overseas focused and some companies are focused on both.' Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
As 8 new startups join the 2018 club, average time taken to be a $1 billion firm now stands at 5-7 years, next only to China, says a Nasscom report
Nasscom is sending team there to check out ways of accessing markets, funding and the technology landscape.
And it's not an IIT graduate who's bagged it, report Gireesh Babu & Vinay Umarji.
Modi will get the maximum chunk of the session time.
India needs to get back to economic growth of seven to 10 per cent growth.
Murthy met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal last week.
As many as 11,500 startups would come up in the country employing over 2,50,000 people by 2020, according to key findings of India Start-up Report 2014 of industry body Nasscom.
Retail giants are looking at Indian start-ups in the big data and analytics space
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