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PARIS: The Statue of Liberty, Uganda's gorilla forest, Stonehenge and Venice — theUnited Nations on Thursday listed 31 protected sites threatened by sea level rise, drought and other climate change effects.
In West Bengal Mamata Benerjee took oath as the Chief Minister of the state for a second term.
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Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and noted singer Indranil Sen were among 17 new faces who were sworn in as ministers.
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The words were tougher. The final rounds lasted longer. The result was the same.The Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a tie for the third consecutive year on Thursday night, with Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga declared co-champions after a roller-coaster finish.Thirteen-year-old Jairam is the younger brother of the 2014 co-champion, Sriram Hathwar. Nihar, at age 11, is the youngest winner of the bee on record.
Barack Obama touched down in Hiroshima after completing talks with world leaders at an international summit in Shima, Japan.The visit presents a diplomatic tightrope for a U.S. President trying to make history without ripping open old wounds. Mr. Obama planned to make a short speech and pay tribute to the 140,000 people killed in the bombing seven decades ago. But the White House has stressed he will
China has signed two agreements with Sudan, its close ally in Africa to build 600-megawatt (MW) atomic reactor. It was the first of its kind project to be built by China in African country. The two framework agreements in this regard have been signed by state-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) with Sudan. These agreements include nuclear power development and building a 600 MW atomic reactor. Key facts These
Russia has included Maria Sharapova in its Olympic tennis team despite the star player being suspended over a positive test for the banned drug meldonium. Questions regarding her participation at the Olympic would be resolved by the end of the first week.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) provisionally suspended Sharapova the five-time Grand
India's Test captain and numero uno batsman Virat Kohlihas been named as 'Third Most Marketable Sportsperson' in the world ahead of football superstar Lionel Messi, world No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic in a latest survey published by magazine 'SportsPro'.
Kohli is ranked behind NBA's 'Most Valuable Player' Stephen Curry and Juventus' French
India settled for silver medal after losing to Iran in the finals of Asian team snooker championship. India was in full confidence as they defeated Pakistan in the semifinals, but little did they knew about Iran’s grit as they won the tournament in the final frame with the score
She was nowhere near her best, yet Anumol Thampi emerged as the star of the opening day of the National youth athletics championship, with a National record to boot.
Early on Thursday at the University Stadium, she clocked 10:00.22 to win the gold in the girls’ 3000m, comfortably erasing the National record of Maharashtra’s Sanjeevani Jadhav (10:08.29), set in 2013. She
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has extended his greetings and felicitations to the Government and people of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on the eve of their
National DAY(May 28, 2016).
The Cochin Port celebrated ‘Port Day’ on 26.05.2016 with a business meeting for the exporters and importers and agencies, among other programmes. Sri Paul Antony, Chairman of the Cochin Port till 16th May, 2016 was the Chief Guest. He recalled the great efforts in bringing up the Cochin Port to its present situation of achieving Rs. 70 crores of operational profit in the just concluded financial year. He thanked the
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday stayed the reservation for the Jats and five other communities provided by the Haryana government under a newly carved Backward Classes (C) category.
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The High Court bench headed by Justice S S Saron passed the order while hearing a petition of Murari
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Not all planets predicted to be habitable may be capable of harbouring life as their atmospheres keep them too hot, say scientists including one of Indian-origin.
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When looking for planets that could harbour life, scientists look for planets in the ‘habitable zones’ around their stars - at the right distance from the stars to allow water to exist in liquid form.
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The NCC Girls Mt. Everest Expedition Team has successfully scaled the world’s highest peak on May 21 and 22, 2016. They scaled the peak after dividing themselves into two teams, where the first team led by the Expedition Team Leader Col Gaurav Karki, reached the summit on May 21, 2016 and the second team led by Lt Col Vishal Alhawat reached the top on May 22, 2016 making it a first ever successful expedition by the NCC Girls Team.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the NEET ordinance, saying that its validity on the ground it violated Article 14 of the constitution could be challenged when the court opened after the summer break.
An apex court vacation bench of Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, while declining to pass any interim order, said that anything at this stage would create further confusion.
SAN FRANCISCO: A U.S. jury handedGoogle a major victory on Thursday in a long-running copyright battle with Oracle Corp over Android software used to run most of the world's smartphones.
The jury unanimously upheld claims by Google that its use of Oracle's Java
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the NEET ordinance, saying that its validity on the ground it violated Article 14 of the constitution could be challenged when the court opened after the summer break.
An apex court vacation bench of Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, while
The Ministry of Railways on 26 May 2016 launched Rail Humsafar Saptaah, a week-long initiative to highlight significant achievements made by Indian Railways in all spheres.The Rail Humsafar Saptaah will conclude on 1 June 2016.
In addition, each day of the week will focus on a particular theme and hence the days have been named as:
Guinea Bissau President Jose Mario Vaz on 26 May 2016 issued a presidential decree naming Baciro Dja as Prime Minister of the country. Dja succeeds Carlos Correia, who was sacked earlier in May 2016. His removal threatened to deepen political turmoil in the tiny West African nation.
Indian American student Rishi Nair on 26 May 2016 won the prestigious National Geographic Bee competition 2016.
As National Geographic Bee champion, Nair received a 50000 US dollars college scholarship and a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society. He also won a trip to Alaska and Glacier Bay
Bioengineer Frances Arnold from United States (US) has won the prestigious 2016 Millennium Technology Prize. With this she becomes first female to be awarded with this prestigious biennial award in its 12-year history. The Technology Academy Finland (TAF) had chosen Frances Arnold for this award in recognition of her discoveries that launched the field of directed evolution. Her discoveries mimic natural evolution to create new and better
