Union Government has selected legendary boxer and five-time world boxing champion MC Mary Kom as Brand Ambassador for the North East Region.
It was announced by Union Minister of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh at a two-day business summit in New Delhi.
MC Mary Kom was selected to showcase the potential of the North East region which can offer Rs. 2.4 trillion business opportunities across various sectors.
...............Pakistan successfully tested its first indigenously built all-weather armed drone named Burraq and a laser guided missile named Barq.
By successfully testing of Burraq, Pakistan became the 9th country in the World to develop an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) domestically.
..................India’s Dr. Alka Beotra has been nominated as a member of the World Association of Anti-Doping Scientists’ (WAADS) executive board.
She is only Asian in the six-member executive board of WAADS and will have tenure of 3 years starting from March 2015.
At present, Dr. Alka Beotra is Scientific Director of National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL).
...............Top 10 Universities in World Reputation Rankings 2015 are
- Harvard University (US).
- University of Cambridge (UK).
- University of Oxford (UK).
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US).
- Stanford University (US).
- University of California, Berkeley (US).
- Princeton University (US).
- Yale University (US).
- California Institute of Technology (US).
- Columbia University (US).
- The top ten universities are all located in the US and United Kingdom (UK). US alone has 8 universities in the top ten rankings. While, UK has 2 universities in the top 10 ranking.
- 2015 reputation rankings shows that US alone has 43 higher education institutions in the top 100. While, United has 12 universities in the top 100.
- Germany is third best-represented nation in the ranking after the US and the UK. It has 6 universities in top 100.
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