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Gopalkrishna Gandhi The first time an Indian Pime Minister visited the US was in 1949. President Harry S Truman invited a very fresh and gleaming Jawaharlal Nehru, two years into India's Prime Ministership, to the US on an official visit.…
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Dear Editor, "Pathankot-Leh line project gets nod" is welcome as it would usher in an era of prosperity in hills and strengthen the country's security. The Railways has not progressed an inch in the hills post Independence. This project…
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Dear Editor, Every Indian must be proud that Kailash Satyarthi is the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his exemplary work in upholding the rights of children. While the world has acknowledged his greatness and awarded him the…
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Dear Editor, Heartiest congratulations to the Indian hockey team for winning the gold medal in the XVII Asian Games held at Incheon in South Korea by defeating Pakistan. It was a sweet revenge of the defeat India suffered at the hands of…
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Dear Editor, Without basic necessities, the 'Swachch Bharat Abhiyan' will not yield any fruitful results. Today, television and telephone sets exceed the percentage of households with access to toilet facilities. An alarming 45 per cent of…
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NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has provided scientists with five new findings into how the sun's atmosphere, or corona, is heated far hotter than its surface, what causes the sun's constant outflow of particles called…
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Among patients with an autoimmune disease called ANCA-associated vasculitis, autoantibody increases were linked with an 11-fold increased risk of relapse in patients whose kidneys were affected, a study concludes. Among patients without…
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Scientists have developed a new battery that can be recharged up to 70 per cent in only 2 minutes. The battery will also have a longer lifespan of over 20 years. Expected to be the next big thing in battery technology, this breakthrough…
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London, Oct 16 (AFP) Brent oil hit a fresh four-year low today, after another sharp sell-off in equities, with traders increasingly concerned about the global economic outlook ahead of key US inventories data. Brent North Sea crude for…
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Vienna, Oct 16 (AFP) Iran said today it is against extending a November 24 deadline for troubled nuclear talks, even though major stumbling blocks remain in the way of a deal. "We only have 40 days left to the deadline and... none of the…
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