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Abdul Hamid I

Abdulhamid I (20 March 1725 – 7 April 1789) was the twenty-seventh sultan of the Ottoman Empire, ruling from 1774 until his death in 1789. His reign unfolded...

August 31, 2018

Abdul Rashid Dostum

Abdul Rashid Dostum (born 25 March 1954) is an Afghan military commander, warlord, and political figure whose career has spanned every major phase of Afghanistan’s modern conflicts. As...

August 31, 2018

A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick is...

August 31, 2018

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) is a foundational work of early feminist philosophy written by the British thinker...

August 31, 2018

Aage Bohr

Aage Niels Bohr (19 June 1922 – 8 September 2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist whose pioneering work on the structure and behaviour of atomic nuclei earned him...

August 31, 2018

Abbess

An abbess (abbatissa in Latin) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey. Her office, long established in Western and Eastern Christian monastic traditions,...

August 31, 2018

Abiotic stress

Abiotic stress refers to the negative influence of non-living environmental factors on living organisms within a particular habitat. These stressors affect population performance or individual physiology when their...

August 31, 2018

Exercise KAKADU 2018: INS Sahyadri reaches Port Darwin in Australia

Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri has reached Port of Darwin, Australia to participate in multilateral regional maritime exercise KAKADU 2018 conducted by Australia. The ship was earlier deployed in...

August 31, 2018

India opens Zokhawthar immigration check-post in Mizoram along Myanmar border

India has opened Zokhawthar land immigration check-post in Mizoram along border with Myanmar. It has been designated as authorised immigration centre for entry into and exit from India...

August 31, 2018

New Delhi venue of MOVE: India’s First Global Mobility Summit 2018

NITI Aayog will organise MOVE: India’s First Global Mobility Summit 2018 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on September 7. The aim of the summit is to showcase...

August 31, 2018

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