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India Beat Australia By 7 Wickets, Team India For T20 Series Against Australia Announced
This is the first time India are No. 1 in both Tests and One-dayers. Australia managed 243 before Rohit Sharma’s blistering century led India to a comfortable win.India achieved the No. 1 ranking after winning the Kolkata ODI but may lose the top spot if they lose today. This is the first time India are No. 1 in both Tests and One-dayers. India’s 15-member squad for the three-match T20 series against Australia was announced by the BCCI on Sunday after the hosts’ convincing win over the Aussies in the five-match ODI…
Read MoreGandhi Jayanti 2017: India Celebrates Mahatma Gandhi’s 148th Birth Anniversary
Gandhi Jayanti, a birthday anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi is also celebrated as the International Peace Day all across the world. The birthday of the Mahatma Gandhi is celebrated in India every year by the name Gandhi Jayanti or Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. It falls yearly on 2nd of October when there is a gazetted holiday all over the India. On second of October a great person Mahatma Gandhi was born in the year 1869 at Porbandar in the Gujarat to the Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai. Mahatma Gandhi is also known as…
Read MoreTripura: Durga Puja Ends In Peace, Harmony Across 2436 Pandals, Muharram Follows
By: Debraj Deb (Bureau Chief-ICN Tripura) AGARTALA: Durga Puja, biggest festival and religious event of Bengalees ended peacefully in Tripura with ostensibly long queues of devotees and pandal hpppers seen every single day. According to the Police, Durga Puja was organized at 2436 pandals across Tripura this year. These include 954 Durga puja organizing clubs and individual puja organizers in urban areas and 1482 in rural areas. Durga Puja was held in 482 pandals in Agartala and its suburbs alone. According to officials in the Agartala Municipal Corporation, nearly 1600 idols…
Read MoreMuharram 2017: Ashura Being Observed Today With Due Solemnity
The tenth day, this year celebrated on October 1, is important as it is a day of observance and is called the day of ‘Ashura’. Muharram is the first month of the Islamic calendar and is considered a sacred month. The tenth day, this year celebrated on October 1, is important as it is a day of observance and is called the day of ‘Ashura’. Millions of Muslims will mark the date by saying prayers and fasting. Others meanwhile will take part in mourning congregations, chest beatings and self-flagellation. The…
Read MorePresident Ram Nath Kovind Inaugurates Shirdi Airport
The travel time to Shirdi from Mumbai is expected to reduce to 40 minutes as against five hours by road at present. MUMBAI: President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the newly-built Shirdi Airport in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district on Sunday. He also flagged off the first Alliance Air commercial flight from Shirdi to Mumbai.The year 2018 marks the 100 anniversary of the samadhi of Shri Sai Baba, one of the most revered saints of the globe. The airport project is part of the Maharashtra Government’s effort to promote religious tourism at Shirdi, known for…
Read MoreUNDERSTANDING SYRIAN CIVIL WAR
By: Masud Javed (Bureau Consultant- International Affairs) ICN Group Syria, the only communist country in the Arab world. NEW DELHI:The fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 yielded a wind of change which swept East Europe. The people living in the counties allied to the erstwhile Soviet Union ( Warsaw Pact members namely, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania), revolted against their socialist/communist governments and finally managed to bring in democratic form of governance and leaders. In other words, they joined the capitalist bloc with an exception of Slovakia which remained in the socialist bloc. Not…
Read MoreNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY GOA
PANAJI: The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) is one of 37 constituent laboratories of the CSIR – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, an autonomous research organization in India. The institute has its headquarters in the coastal state of Goa, and regional centres in Kochi, Mumbai and Vizag. The Institute was established on 1 January 1966. At the end of over 40 years it has grown today into a large oceanographic laboratory of international repute mainly focusing on the understanding of special oceanographic features of the Northern Indian Ocean By the 1950s…
Read MoreVALLEY OF KASHMIR, A PARADISE ON EARTH
By: Vijay Kumar Verma (Editor-ICN Group) SHIMLA: The state government has started inviting and welcoming tourists from all over the country to visit Srinagar, long referred as the paradise on earth.The separatists don’t have anything to do with tourists and they are not harmed, I am told by a local friend, and the state government too is giving assurance of safety. For many like me who had been waiting on the wings for mist of militancy to settle, it was a welcome step at the right time to head for…
Read MoreLATIN AMERICA: Chile’s Presidential Candidates Debate Mapuche Hunger Strike
The Mapuche are Chile’s largest indigenous group. They resisted conquest for 300 years until military defeats in the late 19th century forced them into Araucania, south of the Bio Bio river. Chile’s eight presidential candidates have discussed the hunger strike of four Mapuche activists in the first televised debate ahead of the elections on Nov. 19. The Mapuche community members have been on a hunger strike for more than 115 days to protest their detention which they argue is arbitrary. A Mapuche leader who has been on a hunger strike to demand…
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