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Chaplin Cinema

Elphinstone Picture Palace is India’s first permanent film theatre, built in Calcutta. It still exists, and is called Chaplin Cinema. Chaplin Cinema is located in Chowringhee Place and...

September 18, 2014

Lumiere Brothers

In India, the First motion picture was projected by Lumiere Brothers (Auguste and Louis Lumière) at Watson’s Hotel, Bombay in 1896. They are known as earliest filmmakers in...

September 18, 2014

Cable TV Digitization in India

The cable operators used to transmit the channels in analog signal mode before they were forced to move to digitization. The transmission of analog signals results in a...

September 18, 2014

US will not send ground troops in Iraq

US President Barack Obama has insisted that US ground troops will not return to Iraq despite proposals from his top military commander who suggested that the option of...

September 17, 2014

US to take on Ebola in West Africa

West African nations are fighting their own battle everyday with a non-human enemy which is all set to take on its victim in a deadly stride and not...

September 17, 2014

Chinese President arrives in India

Chinese President Mr. Xi Jinping has arrived in India for a 3-day visit which can change the geopolitical implications of the region. Mr. Xi is expected to come...

September 17, 2014

Ukraine and EU sign historic agreement

Ukraine and EU leaders have signed a historic agreement which will bring Ukraine closer to the West. The agreement which will come into force in January 2016 is...

September 17, 2014

Kaushik Basu appointed as president-elect of International Economic Association (IEA)

Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of World Bank, has been appointed as president-elect of the association by the International Economic Association (IEA). Meanwhile, Basu will...

September 17, 2014

Indian scientist Kamal Bawa wins the Midori Prize 2014

Indian scientist Kamal Bawa, an eminent professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, won the Midori Prize (2014) in Biodiversity for his research, including in...

September 17, 2014

“National Ayush Mission” gets Government’s nod

Government has permitted the launching of National Ayush Mission (NAM) to attend to the gaps in health services in vulnerable and far-flung parts of the country. The judgment...

September 17, 2014

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