Dr. N.Khumdemo Ezung Senior Scientist and head (i/c) KVK (ICAR), Kiphire The word “Pumpkin” is derived from the Greek word “Pepon” which means “large melon”. The French changed the word “pe

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Anuradha Nagaraj Thomson Reuters Foundation Less than 1% of Indians charged with slavery offences during the past decade were convicted, research showed on Tuesday, as anti-slavery campaigners called fo

Alex Fraser Reuters Icebergs float liked doomed islands past the small boat as it makes its way through a fjord filled with the slush of a melting glacier. Occasionally, as the warming waters dissolve t

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 04   Reuters 1914 - Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected Pope, becoming Benedict XV.   1925 - The U.S. dirigi

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Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Sept 03   Reuters 1914 - Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa was elected Pope, becoming Benedict XV.   1925 - The U.S. dirigible S

K Yatish Rajawat  IANS  Growth has momentum and slowdown has inertia. The Indian GDP growth has fallen to 5 per cent in the April-June quarter, from 8 per cent. This slowdown can only be rever

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Khrietuonyü Noudi Migration is a worldwide phenomenon and this fact has always put the minority people in grave disadvantages when their territories are intruded by massive migrating population from all qua

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 28   Reuters 1916 - General Paul von Hindenburg became German chief of staff during World War One.   1995 - Georgian

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 27   Reuters 1919 - Louis Botha, Boer general, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, died aged 56. &

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 26     Reuters 1920 - American women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.  

Huge fires are raging across multiple regions of the Amazon Basin. (Guaira Maia/ISA)     Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, University of Sydney Record fires are raging in Brazil’s Amazon

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug 23 Reuters 1926 - The Italian-born American film actor Rudolph Valentino died aged 31. Idolised by women as the first "Latin lover" of the

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 22   Reuters 1910 - Korea was annexed by Japan after five years as a protectorate.   1922 - Irish politician and Sinn

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 21   Reuters 1911 - Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris by an Italian waiter, Vice

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 20   Reuters 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, was fatally wounded by a Spanish Communist with an ice axe in Mexico Ci

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 19     Reuters 1929 - The Russian ballet impresario and director Sergei Diaghilev died. His Ballets Russes produced su

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 15   Reuters 1914 - The Panama Canal opened with the passage of the vessel Ancon, although it was not formally inaugurated until