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The Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan will review the two rounds of the Composite Dialogue they had in Islamabad and New Delhi on January 17 and 18 in New Delhi. (more…)

Goa celebrated it’s 44th Liberation Day on Monday by organising various cultural programmes. Students, colourfully dressed and representing the diverse sections of the state’s society took part in the programmes. (more…)

The noise emitted by airplanes sounds as if it is coming from the engine, but it is basically airflow over the plane’s wings, flaps and landing gear, according to University of Florida researchers. (more…)

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today clarified that he had allowed a discussion on “Future of Indian Sports” in the House on the coming Tuesday, and not the issue of exclusion of Saurav Ganguly from the Indian team. (more…)

Chandigarh (India)is Beautiful city of the World.
The name Chandigarh was derived from the famous temple called ‘Chandi Mandir’. ‘Chandi’ is the Goddess of Power and ‘Mandir’ means temple. ‘Garh’ or fort beyond the temple, the beautiful city ‘Chandigarh’ name was derived.

Chandigarh is the capital of two states i.e Punjab and Haryana. After independence, India had invited the great architect, Le Corbusier to design the new capital of Punjab, as the earlier capital Lahore had gone to the Pakistan after partition. But, the city doesnot belong to any of the two states. Now, it is a UT(Union Territory) which means city is administered by the Government of India. (more…)

Finance Minister, P Chidambaram today said that the Employees Provident Fund Organisation Trustee board would have to fund the deficit of Rs 365 crore from its own resources. (more…)

Sachin Tendulkar created history by becoming the highest century-getter as India laid the foundation for a mammoth first innings total in the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka at the Feroze Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Dec,10. (more…)

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar on Thursday said that the Government was considering separate colours for domestic and commercial LPG cylinders to prevent the use of subsidised cooking gas for non-domestic purposes. (more…)

When any of your lover or well-wishers have been charged with any criminal, then smart attorney can make a lot of difference between freedom and jail. (more…)

A new study published in the recent issue of the Astronomical Journal has found that more than half of the largest galaxies in the nearby universe have collided and merged with another galaxy in the past two billion years. (more…)