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Padmini Rout wins 2016 National Women Premier Chess Championship

International Master Padmini Rout has won the 2016 National Women Premier Chess Championship. With this win, she has scored a hat-trick in the National Women Premier Chess Championship....

November 15, 2016

Draft Bill legalising outposts approved by Israeli Committee

In a controversial move, Israel has approved the Draft Bill which authorises the Jewish settlements built on private Palestinian land in the occupied parts of West Bank without...

November 14, 2016

Australian PM: Refugees will not be sent to US this year

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has clarified his stance on refugees i.e. 1200 asylum seekers being held in prisons on Papua New Guinea and Island of Nauru in Pacific....

November 14, 2016

CPEC becomes reality as Pakistan inaugurates Gwadar port

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated the operational activities of the revamped strategic Gwadar port in the south-western Balochistan Province. With the operationalisation of the deep sea port,...

November 14, 2016

Rumen Radev wins Bulgarian Presidential Elections

Pro-Russian and former air force commander Rumen Radev has won the presidential elections at Bulgaria with a wide margin. Radev got 59.4 percent vote as against 36.2 percent...

November 14, 2016

Netanyahu favours bill to stop mosque noise

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has come in favour of the bill which calls for reducing the volume of calls to prayer coming from mosques resting his stance on...

November 14, 2016

Termination clause in N-deal with Japan not binding on India: Government

The Union Government has said that the “termination” clause in the recently signed historic civil nuclear deal with Japan will be not binding on India. But the “termination”...

November 14, 2016

Researchers isolate a bacterium in chicken transmitting multidrug resistant pathogen to humans

Researchers from Hyderabad have isolated Helicobacter pullorum bacterium in chicken that may be source of transmission of the multidrug resistance pathogen to humans. This is the first evidence...

November 14, 2016

November 12: World Pneumonia Day

The World Pneumonia Day is observed globally every year on November 12 to generate awareness about the ‘pneumonia’ disease.  The day aims to highlight the severity of pneumonia...

November 14, 2016

36th India International Trade Fair begins in New Delhi

The 36th edition of India International Trade Fair (IITF) has started at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. It will be held from 14th to 18th November 2016. The fair...

November 14, 2016

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