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  • Today in History
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 26:   1905 - Revolutionary Russian workers in St Petersburg formed the first Soviet, or workers' assembly, in a brief uprising. &
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 24
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 24   Reuters 1929 - Share prices collapsed as nearly 13 million shares changed hands in panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 23
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 23   Reuters 1906 - Paul Cezanne, French Post-Impressionist painter, died. Among his best known works are "Card Players" and "Mont Sa
  • Continuous market downtrend looks to be a thing of the past
    Arun Kejriwal   IANS  It was a great week for the bourses as markets gained on each of the five trading days last week. BSESENSEX gained 1,171.30 points or 3.07 per cent to close at 39,298.38 p
  • Unifying defence forces 
    DC Pathak  IANS  The announcement by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15 that the government had decided to appoint a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to consolidate
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 21
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 21     Reuters 1945 - Women vote for the first time in France.   1966 - A colliery slag heap slid and buried a scho
  • Plastic bottles vs aluminium cans - who'll win the global water fight?
    A plastic bottle drifts on the waves of the sea at a fishing port in Isumi, east of Tokyo, Japan November 21, 2018. (Reuters File Photo)     Eric Onstad Reuters Global bottled water gia
  • TODAY IN HISTORY OCTOBER 18
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 18   Reuters 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) was formed.   1931 - The American inventor Thomas Alva Edison
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 17
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 17   Reuters 1931 - American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion.   1961 - Riot police and Algerians demonstrating
  • Laziness a bane to youths in Naga Society
    Catherine Kulnu Asst Prof, St Joseph's College, Jakhama Money is the root cause of evil people say. But according to me laziness is the root cause of evil. According to the Catholic principles being laz
  • TODAY IN HISTORY
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 16   Reuters 1946 - A number of top German Nazis were hanged at Nuremberg after being found guilty of war crimes. They included for
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 15
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 15   Reuters 1943 - Italy declared war on its former Axis partner Germany in World War Two.   1990 - St Basil's Russian
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 14
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct14     Reuters 1912 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a would-be assassin in Milwaukee. He was saved by his thick
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 11
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 11   Reuters 1899 - Beginning of second Boer War.   1961 - Leonard "Chico" Marx, the piano-playing member of the Marx Br
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 10
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 10   Reuters 1911 - Chinese Nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen proclaimed a republic at Wuchang and began the revolution that overthrew
  • India is moving towards banning Single Use Plastic
    Renthungo Humtsoe  Asst. Professor, Dept of Pol Sc SJCJ (A)  As October approaches, many Single Use plastic (SUPs) items are set to disappear from our lives. From the Indian Railways to Govern
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 09
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 09   Reuters 1934 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who were negotiating an alliance, were
  • TODAY in HISTORY: September 07
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Sept 07     Reuters 1940 - In World War Two, German troops invaded Romania to take control of strategic oilfields.   19
  • TODAY in HISTORY: October 04
    Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 04   Reuters 1918 - Explosion at shell-loading plant in Gillespie munitions factory in New York.   1957 - The Soviet Uni
  • Celebrity chef Kunal Kapur turns attention to green coffee
    Vishnu Makhijani IANS He's curated a 'satvik' meal for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hosted four seasons of MasterChef India and an 18-episode "Pickled Nation" TV ser
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