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5 things to know about the Berlin Wall
World | Jan 02, 2015, 10:55 AM ISTBerlin: The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago on Sunday, a key event in the collapse of communism and the preface to Germany's reunification in 1990.The anniversary is being celebrated in Berlin with concerts, speeches
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Know about Nripendra Mishra, Principal Secretary to PM Modi
India | Jul 12, 2014, 11:46 AM ISTNew Delhi: Nripendra Mishra, PM Narendra Modi's principal secretary, has a way of working with politicians across the ideological spectrum and those who have worked with him swear by his impeccable administration skills. The functional
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Know about Vadnagar in Gujarat, the birthplace of Narendra Modi
India | Sep 17, 2014, 10:10 AM ISTVadnagar(Gujarat): Cobbled narrow lanes. Old two-storey homes. An ancient temple. A lake in the heart of the town. These are the first impressions of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's home town - the dusty, sleepy
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Know about India's Air-to-Air Missile Astra
India | Jun 12, 2014, 07:10 AM ISTNew Delhi: India on Saturday conducted a successful ballistic flight test of indigenously developed Astra - Beyond-Visual-Range Air-to-Air Missile - from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur. Astra is an active radar homing beyond-visual-range air-to-air
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Know about Ethiopian tribe girls who have lip plates implanted at puberty
World | Aug 06, 2014, 07:54 AM ISTNew Delhi: It may look odd to us, but in the Ethiopian Suri tribe, this enormous lip plate is actually a sign of beauty. When girls hit puberty they have their bottom two teeth removed
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Know about Lathmar Holi of Barsana, when women beat men with sticks
India | Mar 17, 2014, 06:27 AM ISTNew Delhi: Holi is a festival of colours celebrated across northern, eastern and western India. Legend has it that Lord Krishna used to play this festival of colours with his consort Radha and other Gopis
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Know about INS Kolkata, victim of another naval mishap
India | Mar 08, 2014, 06:28 AM ISTNew Delhi: In another twist to the ongoing mishaps in Indian Navy , another naval ship INS Kolkata, under construction, met with an accident on Friday. A commander rank officer of the Kolkata class destroyer
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Know about Indian Army's mysterious Operation Leech
India | Oct 12, 2014, 11:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: ‘Operation Leech' has remained one of those mysteries from the murky world of intelligence, where ruthless killings and double agents aren't unheard of.On February 12, 1998, the Indian Army claimed in New Delhi
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Know about Balaji temple in Rajasthan, a place to exorcise ghosts
India | Oct 12, 2014, 11:06 AM ISTNew Delhi: For people, who don't believe in ghosts, this is the place to come where evil spirits are exorcised.Mehandipur Balaji temple is located in Dausa district of Rajasthan, 255 km away from Delhi. There
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Know about Kejriwal's Swaraj Bill for Delhi
India | Feb 13, 2014, 06:10 AM ISTNew Delhi: Even before the Jan Lokpal Bill is tabled in Delhi Assembly, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party has come up with its Swaraj Bill which, it says, may prove to be the flashpoint
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All you wanted to know about AIIMS 2014 Exam
India | Jun 05, 2014, 09:15 AM ISTNew Delhi: AIIMS Entrance Exam stands for All Indian Institute of Medical Science which is conducted for acquiring admissions to MCh/ MHA/ DM/ Ph.D programs. This medical entrance exam is directed by All India Institute
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Know about Ghatak commandos, the invincible Special Forces of India
India | Aug 08, 2014, 08:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: In order to equip the Indian Army in fighting insurgency, government decided to roll out Ghatak Platoon to make the infantry more effective. Ghatak Platoon, or Ghatak Commandos, is a special operations capable
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Know about the most powerful NASA rocket SLS, which can lift 130 tonnes into orbit
World | Aug 26, 2014, 07:57 AM ISTNew Delhi: US space agency NASA has revealed stunning new pictures of its SLS (Space Launch System) on Wednesday. This SLS will eventually be capable of lifting 130 tonnes into orbit.It is set to become
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Know about womb transplants in Sweden, first babies to be born next year
World | Jan 15, 2014, 06:43 AM ISTNew Delhi: The womb transplant or uterine transplant is the surgical procedure whereby a healthy uterus is transplanted into an organism whose uterus is absent or diseased.As part of the normal mammalian sexual reproduction process,
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Know about IAF's Operation Poomalai in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
India | Dec 29, 2013, 07:12 AM ISTNew Delhi: On the 4th of June 1987, India stopped the siege of Jaffna by the Sri Lankan army. It was a humanitarian intervention but also a symbolic gesture. And the Sri Lankan president Jayewardene
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Know about the innovative instrument which can picture exoplanets
World | Jun 16, 2014, 07:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: An exoplanet is a planet outside the Solar System. For centuries philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of detecting them.The first confirmed detection of exoplanet came
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Know about the world's scariest castle Hunedoara in Romania
World | Jun 20, 2014, 07:07 AM ISTNew Delhi: Hunedoara is the most frightening castle It is is a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Hunedoara, in the region of Transylvania, Romania.People believe that an evil resides in castle that nobody wanted to come face
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Know about the deadliest place in the world 'Snake Island'
World | Oct 23, 2014, 11:47 AM ISTNew Delhi: This island is a 430,000-square-metre (110-acre) island off the coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.Its actual name is Ilha de Queimada Grande but it is nicknamed as Snake Island.It is home
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10 things to know about law relating to sexual harassment at workplace
India | Sep 17, 2014, 12:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2012 is an act "to provide protection against sexual harassment of women at workplace and for the prevention and redressal of
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Know about Siachen, the world's highest battlefield
India | Jun 16, 2014, 07:45 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Siachen glacier, located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains, is one of the five largest glaciers in the Karakoram, situated at an average altitude of 18,000 feet above sea