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World Migratory Bird Day 2021: Sing. Fly. Soar. Like a Bird!

Avya Mathur   New Delhi: Celebrated on the second Saturday of October, the World Migratory Bird Day is an UN-backed global campaign that aims to raise awareness on migratory birds and the need for international cooperation to conserve such birds and their habitat. The first World Migratory Bird Day was organized in 2006 by the […]

Aviation: Air India’s Maharaja returns to the Tatas!

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Finally, Air India is returning to the Tata Group. Industrialist Ratan Tata said his uncle JRD Tata, who once headed the airline, would have been overjoyed with this decision. The Tatas will try to rebuild Air India to convert it into a world-class airline. The Union Government has decided to […]

Earthquake: Midnight tremors jolt Leh, Myanmar

New Delhi: The Leh district in the Union Territory of Ladakh experienced an earthquake tremor measuring 3.8 intensity on the Richer scale early on Friday. Although intensity was low, the tremors panicked the people who rushed out of their homes. According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), “An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 on the […]

Nobel in Peace: Filipino, Russian journalists share the 2021 Prize

New Delhi: Journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia were on Friday declared winners of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The Prize is the first for journalists since German Carl von Ossietzky won it in 1935 for revealing his country’s secret post-war rearmament program. “Ms. Ressa and Mr. Muratov are receiving the […]

Covid-19: ‘For goal of a $5 trillion economy, India must grow at 9% for five years’

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Now that the Covid-19 pandemic has made it impossible to achieve India’s hope of becoming a USD 5 trillion economy by 2025, what the country can do now is to grow at a rate of nine percent for the next five consecutive years to realize this aim, former Reserve Bank of […]

India completes Koshi Corridor power transmission line in Nepal

New Delhi: India on Wednesday handed over a finished 220 KV double circuit 106-km-long Koshi Corridor power transmission line to the Nepal Electricity Authority. The USD 86.8 million packages two projects were funded under the USD 550 million line of credit from India to Nepal. This project cost USD 37.3 million. When finished, the third […]

Reliance Retail to launch chain of 7-Eleven stores from Saturday

Mumbai: The Reliance Group is all set to launch a chain of 7–Eleven retail stores across India, beginning with Mumbai on Saturday. The development comes after the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Retail Ltd. secured the pact with 7-Eleven soon after troubled supermarket operator Future Retail Ltd. ended its own agreement with it. The first 7-Eleven store […]

Nobel in Literature: Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Prize

New Delhi: Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was on Thursday declared winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021. Born in Zanzibar and based in England, Gurnah is a professor at the University of Kent. His novel “Paradise” was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994, media reports said. The Swedish Academy awards the Prize, […]

Everest twins Tashi, Nungshi represent India at the Women’s Peak Challenge

New Delhi: The Mount Everest climbing twins, Tashi and Nungshi Malik, are representing India at the ongoing Women Peak Challenge in Switzerland. The Malik sisters are among the over 400 women taking part in the worldwide challenge. Switzerland Tourism had announced the challenge on International Women’s Day 2021 to encourage international women-only team climbers to […]

Afghanistan: With Baradar’s return, Kabul may witness Taliban’s factional war

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who crafted the Taliban deal for the withdrawal of US-led forces, returned to Kabul on Wednesday, with the Afghan Pashtun fighters replacing his personal security and rejecting the one provided by the rival Haqqani Network component of the Islamist militia. This has […]
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