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Events 7.11 (after 1920)

1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany. 1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect. 1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic. 1921 – Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices. 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens. 1924 – Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on a Sunday. 1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. 1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic. 1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Philippe Pétain becomes Chief of the French State. 1941 – The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana. 1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak. 1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily. 1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France. 1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank. 1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III. 1960 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger. 1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States. 1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission. 1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth. 1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized. 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts. 1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories. 1977 – Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 1978 – Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists. 1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. 1982 – The Italy National Football Team defeats West Germany at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to capture the 1982 FIFA World Cup. 1983 – A TAME airline Boeing 737–200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board. 1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins. 1991 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board. 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July. 2006 – Mumbai train bombings: 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. 2010 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carries out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others. 2010 – Spain defeats the Netherlands to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg. 2011 – Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus. 2015 – Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape. 2021 – Richard Branson becomes the first civilian to be launched into space via his Virgin Galactic spacecraft.

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भारतीय सेना प्रमुख के यूएई-सऊदी दौरे से पाकिस्तान की उड़ी नींद, घर में ही घिरे इमरान खान

भारतीय सेना प्रमुख के यूएई-सऊदी दौरे से पाकिस्तान की उड़ी नींद, घर में ही घिरे इमरान खान

इस्लामाबादभारतीय सेना प्रमुख जनरल मनोज मुकुंद नरवणे (एमएम नरवणे) की संयुक्त अरब अमीरात और सऊदी दौरे से पाकिस्तान की नींद उड़ी हुई है। दोनों देशों में भारतीय सेना प्रमुख के भव्य स्वागत को देखकर पाकिस्तान के विपक्षी नेता इमरान खान सरकार की आलोचना कर रहे हैं। जनरल नरवणे भारत के पहले ऐसे सेना प्रमुख हैं, जिन्होंने सऊदी अरब और यूएई का दौरा किया है। भारतीय सेना के आधिकारिक ट्विटर हैंडल पर जनरल नरवणे की…

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Who are the Arab refugees who were told by their leaders to leave Israel for "two weeks" in 1948?  Do they have the right to demand that they be allowed to "return" to Israel? ..

Contrary to the prevailing opinion in the world, most Arabs in Mandate Palestine and most of the 320,000 Arab refugees in 1948 were foreign workers or their descendants. They migrated to Eretz Israel between 1831 and 1947 from Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, North Africa, Bosnia, India, Afghanistan and other countries.

Britain strongly encouraged Arab immigration and blocked the return of Jews to the Land of Israel.

Thus, thanks to the massive immigration of Arab workers, for example, in Haifa, the Arab population in the period from 1880 to 1919, increased from 6 to 80 thousand people.

The Second World War initiated the development of the military industry in the Middle East. The region has become an international military base. And, accordingly, the need for manpower has increased.

It should be noted that even before the First World War, the Ottoman Empire, and then - and Britain, having received a mandate - actively imported Arab labor for the implementation of their civil and military projects.

Arab immigration also increased due to economic growth in Eretz Yisrael, caused by the increase in the size of the Jewish community and its activities (the first aliyah began in 1882 after mass pogroms in Russia).

According to a 1937 report of the British Commission of the Peel, compiled in 1937, it is written: "The increase in the number of the Arab population is particularly noticeable in the cities and is associated with the development of Jewish construction. Censuses from 1922 and 1931 show that the Arab population of Haifa grew by 86 percent, Jaffa by 62 percent, Jerusalem by 37 percent. At the same time, in cities with Arab populations, such as Shekhem and Hebron, the population grew only 7 percent. And in the Gaza Strip, a decrease of 2 percent was observed "(the data are given in the book" Betrayed Palestine ", by Efraim Karsh directed by the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies program at the Royal College of London).

During the period from 1831 to 1947-1 the Arab population of Jaffa, Haifa, and Ramla increased, respectively - in 17, 12 and 5 times.

"In 1931 (according to documented census data), Muslims spoke 23 different languages," writes American writer and journalist, history professor Joan Peters in her book "From time immemorial," and Christian Arabs spoke another 28 languages. In total, on this patch of land, the Arabs, who came from different countries, spoke 51 languages. The non-Jewish population in Palestine indicated in the questionnaires 24 different countries as their place of birth ... "

In 1917, the Arabs of Jaffa represented 25 nations and ethnic groups. Among them were the Syrians, Yemenis, Persians, Afghans, Indians, Baluchis (people inhabiting the territory between the mouth of the Indus and Iran). With the Egyptians being the largest group.

"British Foundation for the Study of Palestine" noted the rapid growth of the districts of Jaffa, inhabited by the Egyptians. Among them - Abu Kabir, Sumeyl, Sheikh Munis, Salame, Fedja, etc. Hundreds of Egyptian families settled in the interior of the country, creating settlements Ara Arara, Kfar Kasem, Taibe, Kalansava.

The seizure of lands by the Egyptian Muhammad Ali (1831-1840) was secured by thousands of Egyptians who migrated to the vacant territories between Gaza and Tulkarem and further north to the valley of Hula. They followed the tracks of thousands of soldiers who deserted from the Egyptian army, fled from Egypt until 1831 and settled in Akko.

A report on Egyptian refugees who settled in the Beit She'an Valley, in Akko, Hadera, Netanya and Jaffa, is found in the traveling notes of the British traveler H.B. Tristram "Land of Israel: a Journey Journey through Palestine" (1865).

"Only in the last few months, 30-36 thousand Syrian migrants arrived to Palestine from Khuran," the Syrian daily La Siri reported on August 12, 1934.

The notorious terrorist Az-ed-Din al-Qassam, who terrorized the Jews in Mandated Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s, was a Syriac. Another Arab terrorist, Kavukji, who himself made himself "commander-in-chief of the Arab revolution in South Syria", was from Lebanon.

Libyan migrants and refugees settled in the Gedera region, south of Tel Aviv. Algerian - near Safed. Natives of Algeria, together with Bedouins from Syria and Jordan - in Tiberias and other parts of the Galilee. The headquarters of their leader, Abd al-Qader al-Husseini, was in Syria.

Circassians, who fled from the Russian conquest (1878), Moslems from Bosnia, Turkmens, Yemeni Arabs (1908) and Bedouin tribes from Jordan (who fled from war and famine) supplemented the Arab demography.

This unusual Arab-Muslim variety is vividly illustrated in the popular names and surnames of Israeli Arabs, pointing to their origin: al-Masri (Egypt), al-Obeidi (Sudan), al-Lubnani (Lebanon), Halabi (Syria), al- Mugrabi (Morocco), Al-Jazeera (Algeria), Al-Yamani (Yemen), Al-Afghani (Afghanistan), Al-Hindi (India), Al-Hijazi (Saudi Arabia), Al Baghdadi (Iraq) and others.

The Israeli journalist and prominent historian of the history of Palestine, Arie Avneri, wrote in his book, "Claim for Forfeiture of Property" (ed., 1980): "In 1554, 205,000 Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in Palestine. In 1800 the population already reached 275 thousand people. In 1890, the population of Palestine increased to 532,000 - thanks to the constant growth of Arab immigration. "

In his book "The Innocents Abroad" (first published in 1869), the famous American writer Mark Twain wrote: "In whatever direction you go, for thirty miles around you will not find even a single village. In two or three places the Bedouin tents cling to each other, but there are no settled inhabitants here. Here you can drive ten miles without meeting ten people ... Deserted desert, gloomy, barren mountains ... Palestine can rightly be considered a queen among the lands ... The mountains are barren and ugly, their colors are dull. The valleys are unsightly deserts with stunted vegetation, from which it is bored and miserable. A bleak, sullen and sorrowful earth ... "

Thus, contrary to the myths about Arab refugees, the Arabs did not live on this land "from time immemorial". Never has "the Palestinian people" inhabited this land.

The Arabs have no reason to demand "the right to return," and most of the 320,000 Arab refugees who hastily left Israel in 1948 were in fact foreign workers from neighboring Arab countries.

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orientalist and Americanist, in the recent past - Consul General of Israel in Houston (USA), now - a teacher at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of many articles on modern business, Jewish law and economics.

Jews From Arab Lands

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India and Oman perform joint exercise between their air forces

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 03/04/22 - 16:00 in Military

The Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Royal Oman Air Force (RAFO) conducted a bilateral exercise called Eastern Bridge-VI from February 21 to 25, 2022 at Jodhpur Air Force Station in western India.

The exercise aimed to provide operational exposure and improve the interoperability of both Air Forces. This occurs after two successive high-level visits by Oman defense officers to India in 2022.

RAFO participated with at least 5 F-16C fighters, while the IAF deployed the Su-30 MKI, Mirage-2000 and Jaguars DARIN-III jets. Senior officers on both sides visited the air base.This was the sixth edition of the biennial exercise, organized alternately by India and Oman. The previous edition of the exercise was held in October 2019 at Masirah Air Base, Oman, and was the first time that IAF MiG-29 fighters participated in an exercise held outside India.

This was the sixth edition of the biennial exercise, organized alternately by India and Oman. The previous edition of the exercise was held in October 2019 at Masirah Air Base, Oman, and was the first time that IAF MiG-29 fighters participated in an exercise held outside India.

The 11th Meeting of the India-Oman Joint Military Cooperation Committee (JMCC) on bilateral defense cooperation was held in New Delhi on January 31, 2022. This was done during the Secretary-General's visit to the Ministry of Defense of Oman, Dr. Mohammed Bin Nasser Bin Ali Al-Zaabi to New Delhi. During the meeting, the two sides reviewed the progress made in military engagements, joint exercises, industrial cooperation through joint ventures and various infrastructure projects in progress. The conduct of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercises and the fight against drug trafficking prevalent in the North Arabian Sea were also discussed.

The five F-16 fighters of the Royal Oman Air Force.

Rear Admiral Saif Bin Nasser Bin Mohsin Al Rahbi, Commander of the Royal Oman Navy (CRNO), visited India from February 13 to 17. The visit aimed to consolidate bilateral relations with the Indian Navy and increase defense cooperation with India. The CRNO visited the Western Indian Naval Command in Mumbai and visited Indian naval ships at the Mumbai Naval Shipyard. A press release noted that both navies have been participating in the biennial maritime exercise 'Naseem Al Bahr' since 1993. This exercise was last held in 2020 and the next edition is scheduled for the end of this year.

Although India's relations with other Gulf countries, such as Saudi Arabia, have grown substantially with the visits of Indian and Saudi Army chiefs in 2020 and 2022, Oman remains India's closest regional partner. Oman is the only Gulf country with which all three Indian armed forces services conduct regular bilateral exercises and staff talks

In February 2018, Prime Minister Modi visited Oman, where an access agreement to the port of Duqm was signed, along with investments in its industrial zone. Duqm had already hosted a long-range deployment by the Indian Navy in September 2017 (post above), which involved INS Kochi, INS Mumbai, the INS Shishumar submarine and two P-8I aircraft. P-8Is have also been deployed on several occasions in Salalah since 2018. Recently, in December 2021, INS Sudarshini visited Muscat.

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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several air events and operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation

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Why are Tel Aviv and Washington Inflaming the Situation in the Persian Gulf? During the run-up to the anniversary of the insidious assassination of Iranian General Soleimani – and after one month had passed since the equally controversial massacre of leading nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh – Israel and the United States, which are ones responsible for this atrocity, are demonstratively increasing their military presence in the Middle East, and doing so in demagogic fashion under the guise of fearing “retaliation from Iran”. The United States, located both at a considerable distance from Iran and outside the range of its missiles, having provoked this crisis clearly fears only a missile attack on its diplomatic mission in Iraq, as well as other American facilities in the region. Washington is trying to validate these fears with reports from American intelligence services, according to which pro-Iranian armed formations that can deliver a “retaliatory strike” have allegedly stepped up their activity in Iraq. However, on December 21 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh denied these suspicions, which especially resounded in recent statements made by US Secretary of State M. Pompeo about the alleged complicity of pro-Iranian militia in the latest rocket strikes executed on Baghdad’s “Green Zone”. Along with that, Khatibzadeh wrote on Twitter that for Tehran “attacks on diplomatic facilities are unacceptable”. Washington still dispatched additional warships and a squadron of fighters to the Middle East, and demonstratively conducted a nonstop flight of a B-52 strategic bomber that has the ability to carry nuclear weapons, by doing so intending to “intimidate Tehran”. In addition, on December 21 a US naval unit entered the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz that included a USS Georgia (SSGN 729) Ohio-class submarine, which carries up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and is capable of taking on board up to 66 special operations service personnel, as well as two Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers: a USS Port Royal (CG 73) and a USS Philippine Sea (CG 58). Previously, at the end of November, a USS Nimitz (CVN-68) aircraft carrier was sent off the Persian Gulf “to help contain the enemy”; this was rationalized by the need “to have additional defensive capabilities in the region in case of any unforeseen circumstances”. As far as Israel goes, it clearly fears a “retaliation strike” from Iran since, given the Jewish state’s modest size, a successful attack on it could actually terminate its existence. This is especially true if the strike were to hit the Dimona Nuclear Research Center, which is considered to be the site where Israeli nuclear weapons originated; Tel Aviv neither confirms nor denies that the center exists. Incidentally, Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani already delivered a warning to Israel that “if Iran decides to put up resistance, then one missile strike on the Dimona reactor would be enough”. It is clear that Iranian missiles will not really be launched at Dimona, since this is fraught with consequences that entail nuclear contamination and destruction not only for Israel, but for Iran and quite a few neighboring countries across the region. And that is why the Iranian media occasionally names another target: the Israeli city of Haifa. Israel, fearing the hysteria itself that potential military action could unleash, in a speech made by IDF Chief of General Staff Aviv Kochavi on December 21 cautioned Iran not to attack Israel, stating that “the Jewish state will retaliate against any aggression”. Along with that, A. Kohavi evidently pointedly forgot to mention that it is not Iran, but Israel itself, that has already demonstrated its aggressive stance toward the Islamic Republic to the whole world by organizing and initiating acts of terrorism and assassinations – and not only against nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. After all, this is far from the first time that Iranian scientists and leading representatives from Iranian society have been killed by an Israeli act of terrorism. For example, in Tehran, five nuclear physicists have been assassinated recently – and this specifically includes Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, the architect of Iran’s ballistic missile program. All this points to the systematic destruction of the best Iranian scientists employed in the defense industry, which is being accomplished by the international community with impunity. This series of assassinations of prominent Iranian scientists, politicians, and military personnel – who ended up being unacceptable for the United States and Israel – substantiates the suspicions first voiced long ago that Western intelligence services and Israel have adopted the terrorist practice of eliminating key personnel and various prominent figures in those countries with which they are at war; this is done to weaken their defense systems and technological potential. In addition to the words it speaks to help deter Tehran, Tel Aviv has taken a series of measures to test the combat readiness of its army against any potential foreign attacks, and is active about consulting with Washington – especially with representatives from the Pentagon – about how to work out joint coordination for the two countries to take military action against Iran. In particular, large-scale, unprecedented exercises came to an end in December, during which the capabilities of the three levels of Israel’s anti-missile defense (ABM) systems to neutralize various air threats were put to the test. Senior Israel Defense Forces officers, according to the Internet publication Breaking Defense, held “negotiations on coordination work” with their counterparts in the US Central Command (CENTCOM, which includes the Middle East) to bolster cooperation between the armed forces in the two countries “against Iran possibly taking revenge in the region”. According to this publication, the IDF has reached its highest degree of readiness, in particular with regard to repelling “some of the 140,000 missiles that Iran-backed Hezbollah has in Lebanon, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen”. At the same time, it has been reported that although the Israeli command does not disclose the details about how it prepares for war, its tactical and operational anti-missile defense systems, and long-range missile systems, are still on high alert. In addition, as reported by The Times of Israel, on December 17, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley arrived in Israel as part of his Middle East tour to discuss the threat that Iran poses to Washington’s allies, including the Jewish state. As part of preventive measures taken against the armed situation in the region potentially escalating, Israel began to actively spread out its naval fleet around Iran. An Israeli Navy Dolphin-class (Type 800) submarine carrying cruise missiles on board passed through the Suez Canal, and on December 21 demonstratively surfaced in the Persian Gulf, in the waters that stretch between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Dolphin is a series of German modified diesel-electric submarines that are specially designed for Israel, and which have from 6-10 torpedo tubes. Besides torpedoes, they are armed with mines and Popeye Turbo SLCM cruise missiles that have a range of up to 1,500 km, and are capable of carrying nuclear charges with a capacity of up to 200 kilotons launched from torpedo tubes. The Israelis regularly keep at least two of their submarines.in the Indian Ocean, in the immediate vicinity of the Persian Gulf. Today, in the assessments made by numerous experts, there is reason to presume that in January 2021, before Donald Trump leaves the White House, a joint American-Israeli missile strike could be launched against Iran, primarily to neutralize Iran’s air defense systems, as well as its nuclear industry facilities. However, while ramping up the degree of military tension in the region Tel Aviv and Washington cannot help but clearly see that Iran does not intend to attack either the United States or Israel. Iran is not in an ideal condition to wage war now, since its economy is seriously undermined by the restrictive measures imposed on its oil sales abroad, as well as by the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, the deficit inflicting its national budget, and the weakening of its national currency. Yes, military operations “against American and Israeli aggressors” can raise patriotic sentiments in the Islamic Republic for a certain period, but they would quickly drain the Iranian economy and militaristic zeal. In addition, hoping for a change in the attitude taken toward it after the White House administration changes, for political and economic reasons it would now be clearly disadvantageous for Tehran to carry out any large-scale “retaliatory strike”. Therefore, the maximum that Tehran is capable of doing today, without causing itself significant damage, is to carry out a special operation against the Israelis involved in the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh – or to inflict a targeted strike on American facilities in the region through its “proxies”. As for the United States, Israel, and their allies taking military action against Iran right now, it should be kept in mind that the Islamic Republic, despite all its existing economic problems, is a pretty tough nut to crack in terms of its military, and aggression against it would have serious costs. And this cost is obviously unacceptable for either Trump or Netanyahu, who intend to keep pursuing their political careers.

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Complete information including 120 general knowledge questions and answers

Question 1. Apart from India, on August 15, Independence Day and which country are celebrated? Answer: Korea

Question 2. Which is the country which has not been the slave of anyone till date? Answer: Nepal

Question 3. How many countries are the world? Answer: 195

Question 4. Which is the largest mosque in the world? Answer: Almalvaya (Iraq)

Q. 5. In which country does the world have no temple? Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question 6. Which is the world's largest ocean? Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question 7. Which country is the most strict law in the world? Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question 8. What is the world's largest wall? Answer: Great Wall of China (China Wall)

Question 9. Which President gets the highest salary in the world? Answer: US President

Question 10. Which is the country where the country does not have a name on the postage stamp? Answer: Great Britain

Question 11. What is the national flower of India? Answer: Lotus

Question 12. Teacher's Day is celebrated? Answer: 5 September

Question 13. When was the atom bomb dropped on Japan? Answer: 1945

Question 14. When World War was fought? Answer: 1914-1918 AD

Prashan 15. Who was the author of the National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana" of India? Answer: Mr. Rabindranath Tagore

Question 16. Who was the author of the famous epic "Mahabharata"? Answer: Mr. Vedavas

Question 17. Which two places does the Himsagar Express run? Answer: From Jammu to Kanyakumari

Question 18.  "General" is an official post of which army? Answer: Army

Question 19. In which Indian state is the holy pilgrimage "Amarnath" located? Answer: Jammu and Kashmir

Question 20. Famous tourist destination "Gulmarg" is situated in which Indian state? Answer: Kashmir

Question 21. What is the width of the narrow gauge of the rail path? Answer: 2 '6 "

Question 22. Where does the "land of the rising sun" go? Answer: Japan

Question 23. Which city is the capital of Madhya Pradesh? Answer: Bhopal

Question 24. Which city is the capital of Afghanistan? Answer: Kabul

Question 25. Which city is the capital of Japan? Answer: Tokyo

Question 26. Which animal is called the ship of the desert? Answer: camel

Question 27. In which year Mahatma Gandhi was born? Answer: 1869

Question 28. What is the width of the meter gauge of the rail path? Answer: 1 meter

Question 29. Which country is the world's largest continent? Answer: Asia

Question 30. Which country is the world's largest country? Answer: Russia

Question 31. Which is the longest animal in the world? Answer: Giraffe

Question 32. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world? Answer: Everest

Question 33. Who was the first President of the Indian Republic? Answer: Mr. Rajendra Prasad

Question 34. Who was the first person to climb Mt. Everest? Answer: Teenging Norge,  Edmund Hillary

Q. 35. Which state is Kargil town? Answer: Jammu and Kashmir

Question 36. What was the first war of Panipat fought between? Answer: Between Babar and Imbrahim Lodi

Question 37. Ajmer is related to Sufi saint? Answer: Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti

Question 38. Which Mughal king established the religious sect "Din-i-Elahi"? Answer: Akbar

Question 39. What is the monsoon winds? Answer: Rainy Season Winds

Question 40. Which of the world is famous for Siberia in Russia? Answer: For its very cold climate

Question 41. The largest circle on earth? Answer: Equator

Question 42. Which Indian leader is known as "Iron Man of India"? Answer: Shri Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Question 43. In the memory of which rock memorial (rock monument) was dedicated to Kanyakumari? Answer: Swami Vivekananda

Prashan 44. The Jallianwala Bagh is situated in which city? Answer: Amritsar

Question 45. What is the national bird of India? Answer: Peacock

Question 46.  Who gave the slogan of "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan"? Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri

Question 47. The famous evolution 'who gave the government to the public, to the public, to the public'? Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question 48. Which religion is associated with Bodh Gaya? Answer: Buddhism

Question 49. Who was the founder of Sikh religion? Answer: Gurunanak Dev

Question 50. When was the first train in India? Answer: April 16, 1853

Question 51. The longest road in India? Answer: Yes . T. Road

Question 52. India is the most educated state? Answer: Kerala

Prison 53. Which part of the body makes urea? Answer: Liver

Question 54.  Who first gave the slogan of "Inquilab Zindabad"? Answer: Sardar Bhagat Singh

Question 55. Which is the highest award of India? Answer: Bharat Ratna

Question 56. Who was the President of the Constituent Assembly constituted to constitute the Constitution of India? Answer: Mr. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Question 57. Indian film actor, 'Shatrughan Sinha' belongs to which state? Answer: Bihar

Question 58. Aligarh is the product for which product? Answer: To make locks

Question 59. In which Indian state is the "Visakhapatnam" port located? Answer: Andhra Pradesh

Question 60. How many planets are there in our solar family? Answer: 8 (eight)

Question 62. Which religion celebrates the "Baisakhi" festival ? Answer: Sikhism

Question 63. Which river arises from Nasik of Maharashtra? Answer: Godavari

Question 64. Where is the oil refinery factory? Answer: Eyelash

Question 65. Under whose leadership did the US gain independence in 1776? Answer: George Washington

Question 66. What type of trees are found in Rajasthan? Answer: Little

Question 67. Anju Bobby George is related? Answer: Athletic ration

Question 68. Which line is parallel to the equator? Answer: Latitude

Question 69. When did Plassey fight? Answer: 1757 AD

Question 70. With whose support Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi rebelled in Gwalior in the rebellion of 1857 AD? Answer: Tatya Tope

Question 71. Where was the death of the last Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar? Answer: Rangoon

Question 72. What was the name of Mahatma Gandhi's wife? Answer: Kasturba Gandhi

Question 73. Who was the founder of the Indian National Congress? Answer: A. O Hume

74. Who was the first Indian Governor General of India? Answer: C. Rajagopalachari

Question 75. Who founded the prayer society? Answer: Atmaram Pandurang

Question 76. What was the main feature of Chola administration? Answer: Rural autonomy

Question 77. What is the food item of silk worms? Answer: Mulberry leaf

Question 78. Which ruler made Grand Truck Road? Answer: Sher Shah Suri

Question 79. Where is the port of Indus Valley Civilization located? Answer: Lothal

Question 80. Which is the largest state in the North-Eastern state? Answer: Arunachal Pradesh

Prison 81. China is located in which direction of Assam? Answer: North direction

Question 82. Which state of Madhya Pradesh additional India touches the boundaries of seven states? Answer: Assam

Question 83. Where is the Kanchan Ganga mountain peak situated? Answer: Sikkim

Question 84. What is the closest home to the sun? Answer: Mercury

Prashan 85. Where is the headquarters of the North-East Frontier Railway? Answer: Maligaon

Question 86. Is found in sugar found in domestic use? Answer: Sucrose

Question 87. Who was the creator of the first Indian film "Raja Harishchandra"? Answer: Dada Saheb Phalke

Question 88. Which person of Assam has been the President of India? Answer: Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

Question 89. Book "War and Peace" is a writer? Answer: Leo Tolstoy

Question 90. Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioner? Answer: President

Question 91.  Who wrote the patriotic song "A Logo of my Vatana "? Answer: Pradeep

Question 92. What is the pressure of air caused by it? Answer: Density

Question 93. What is the measure of the atmospheric dob measurement? Answer: Barometer

Question 94. How many shells (cells) are there in Amoeba? Answer: 1 (one)

Prashan 95. When did Nagaland become the duly state of India? Answer: 1963 AD

Question 96. Which is the largest railway station in the north east frontier railway station? Answer: Maligaon

Question 97. Who appoints the Chief Minister? Answer: Governor

Question 98. Which gas is used in the refrigerator? Answer: Frian

Q. 99. Who were the discoveries of electrons? Answer: J. J. Thomson

Question 100. Who was the author of the first book printed in Assamese language? Answer: Atmaram Sharma

Question 101. Apart from the National Anthem of India, which other national anthem was written by Rabindranath Tagore? Answer: Bangladesh country

Question 102. What is the wire made of a heater? Answer: Nichrome

Question 103. Which is such a tree in which there is no wood? Answer: banana tree

Question 104. The world's largest river island "Majuli" is located in which of Assam? Answer: Patala Pura

Question 105. What is the maximum speed of sound? Answer: steel

Question 106. Who is called the future metal? Answer: Titanium

Question 107. Which element is found in independent realm? Answer: Sulfur

Question 108.  "Whole state of temples" is a state of which is called India? Answer: Tamil Nadu

Question 109. Who was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra? Answer: Y. B. Chauhan

Question 110. Who is called "Manchester of India"? Answer: Ahmedabad

Question 111. Which river is called the bereavement of Bihar? Answer: Koshi

Question 112. On what date has India been declared a republic? Answer: January 26, 1950

Question 113. Where are the temples of Khajuraho located? Answer: Madhya Pradesh

Prashan 114. Where is the Hawa Mahal located? Answer: Jaipur

Question 115. Where is the big imambara located? Answer: Lucknow

Question 116. What is the Chetak horse related to? Answer: Maha Rana Pratap

Question 117. Who is known for his special contribution in the field of algebraic? Answer: Bhaskar

Question 118. What is the oldest instrument? Answer: Veena

Question 119. The initial specimen of which big temple was constructed and in the state period of Suryavarman II? Answer: Temple of Ankorvata

Question 120.  Where is Amravati Buddhist Stupa? Answer: Andhra Pradesh

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Friday, December 30, 2022

In Much of the South, Subfreezing Weather Crippled Water Systems (NYT) As soon as he saw that temperatures would nosedive to subfreezing lows over the Christmas weekend, Richard White had a strong hunch about the trouble it would spell for his community in Mississippi even after the ice had thawed: Frozen pipes would burst, and water in the system would stop flowing. Sure enough, that’s what happened. It was the same across much of the Southeast, where the bitter cold was long gone—the high in Byram skirted 70 degrees on Wednesday—but the fallout from the recent winter storm endured in the form of broken pipes, disrupted water systems and widespread aggravation. Byram, which relies on Jackson’s long-troubled municipal water system, has been under a boil-water advisory for several days, as are hundreds of thousands of people in Memphis after more than three dozen water main breaks there. In Charleston, S.C., officials warned that the storm thrust the water system alarmingly close to catastrophe. In Selma, Ala., a series of major leaks led the mayor to declare a state of emergency. Pipes also burst at the airports in Atlanta and Birmingham, Ala., inserting yet another bump into a holiday travel season transformed into an obstacle course of cancellations and delays.

Americans abroad (Washington Post) We all know that America is a nation of immigrants (with the obvious exception of its long-marginalized Native population). But every so often, it feels like it’s on the verge of becoming a nation of emigrants. According to recent Gallup polls, as many as 15 percent of Americans say they want to leave the country permanently, and even more say they would consider expatriating under the right circumstances. But only a small fraction of Americans have actually taken the plunge, data shows. While the United States is the top destination for immigrants worldwide, hosting about three times as many immigrants as runners-up Germany and Saudi Arabia, it’s a paltry 26th in terms of sending immigrants abroad. Our analysis of U.N. data finds that just one American emigrates for every six Indians or four Mexicans. The United Nations and World Bank estimate the population of American-born people abroad at around 2.8 million as of 2020.

Mexico draws more asylum-seekers despite grisly violence (AP) Albert Rivera knows well how dangerous Mexico can be: He sometimes wears a bulletproof vest around the compound of bright yellow buildings that he built into one of the nation’s largest migrant shelters. His phone stores more evidence in the form of stomach-churning videos that gangs sent migrants to warn of consequences for disobeying demands. But across town from the Agape Mision Mundial shelter, many migrants are grateful for a chance to settle here. That’s where Mexico’s asylum office greets foreigners who consider the border city of Tijuana a relatively safe place to live with an abundance of jobs. The jarring contrast speaks to Mexico’s conflicted status. It is a country where violence and inequality chase many people to seek a better life in the United States. For others it offers a measure of peace and prosperity beyond what’s available in their homelands.

After presidency, unclear fate for Brazil’s brash Bolsonaro (AP) Jair Bolsonaro told supporters that the future could only bring him three possibilities: arrest, death or a second term as Brazil’s president. one of those outcomes came to pass. And his Oct. 30 loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva set off two months of relative silence for the self-styled standard-bearer of the Brazilian conservative movement. Bolsonaro’s oft-cited motto is “God, Family, Country,” and as president he handed more power to the armed forces and loosened gun restrictions. Many of Bolsonaro’s far-right supporters remain in his thrall and have camped outside military buildings, pleading futilely for army intervention that would keep the president in power. But Bolsonaro authorized his chief-of-staff to preside over the transition process, and moving trucks have started showing up at the presidential palace and residence.

Britain’s Soaring Energy Costs Strain Crisis Responders (NYT) The day after an arctic blast of air hit Britain, plunging temperatures below freezing and blanketing the country in frost, a 72-year-old man finally got through to the advice phone line of Warm and Well, a charitable service in Gloucestershire, in the west of England. The man, whose name was not disclosed, said he had been calling for days and leaving voice mail messages with the nonprofit, which provides advice and emergency funds for people struggling to pay their energy bills. Teresa Hewitt, the energy adviser who answered his call, could only commiserate. “We are absolutely overwhelmed at the moment,” she told him. She was one of seven staff members answering the phones that day in early December who were attempting to field 71 calls. Across Britain this winter, more people are falling into debt and sitting in cold or damp homes as a result of rising energy bills, which have helped push the country’s inflation rate above 10 percent. This sharp increase in what is called “fuel poverty,” when 10 percent of household income is spent on energy bills, is stretching the resources of charities that provide free advice, emergency funds or resources to get access to heat.

Sarajevo’s agony echoes as Ukraine braces for a dark winter SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP)—Vildana Mutevelić huddled in her apartment with her two young children and elderly cousins. They had no heat, electricity or running water as artillery shells tore the roof off their building and almost took their lives. To survive, she improvised. Mutevelić made a lamp out of used engine oil, water and a shoelace for a wick. She cooked on a fire fueled by books, furniture, shoes or clothes. A plastic spoon, she discovered, when lit, worked well as a temporary flashlight if she ventured outside. Plastic sheets covered the blown-out windows, a flimsy buffer against the bitter cold. Her news of the world came from a neighbor who powered a radio with a car battery. “The electricity failed right away,” Mutevelić, 70, said through a translator. “And everything we had in our freezers, it melted. Those were our stocks, basically. That’s all.” For Mutevelić, these are memories from three decades ago, when Bosnian Serbs besieged Sarajevo, causing thousands of civilian casualties. But it’s all happening again in Ukraine. Russia’s armed forces have aimed their firepower at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure as winter weather sets in.

Hard-Line Positions by Russia and Ukraine Dim Hope for Peace Talks (NYT) As the battle for Ukraine turns into a bloody, mile-by-mile fight in numbing cold, Ukrainian and Russian officials have insisted that they are willing to discuss making peace. But with a drumbeat of statements in recent days making clear that each side’s demands are flatly unacceptable to the other, there appears to be little hope for serious negotiations in the near future. Ukraine this week proposed a “peace” summit by the end of February, but said Russia could participate only if it first faces a war-crimes tribunal. That drew a frosty response from the Kremlin, with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov saying that Kyiv must accept all of Russia’s demands, including that it give up four Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. “Otherwise,” he said, “the Russian Army will deal with this issue.” The hard-line positions suggest that both sides believe they have more to gain on the battlefield, analysts say.

Lack of info on China’s COVID-19 surge stirs global concerns (AP) Moves by the U.S., Japan and others to mandate COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could emerge in its ongoing explosive outbreak—and the government may not inform the rest of the world quickly enough. There have been no reports of new variants to date. But given the country’s track record, the worry is that China may not be sharing data on any signs of evolving strains that could spark fresh outbreaks elsewhere. The U.S., in announcing a negative test requirement Wednesday for passengers from China, cited both the surge in infections and what it said was a lack of information, including the genomic sequencing of the virus strains in the country.

U.S. Scrambles to Stop Iran From Providing Drones for Russia (NYT) The Biden administration has embarked on a broad effort to halt Iran’s ability to produce and deliver drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine, an endeavor that has echoes of its yearslong program to cut off Tehran’s access to nuclear technology. In interviews in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, a range of intelligence, military and national security officials have described an expanding U.S. program that aims to choke off Iran’s ability to manufacture the drones, make it harder for the Russians to launch the unmanned “kamikaze” aircraft and—if all else fails—to provide the Ukrainians with the defenses necessary to shoot them out of the sky. The breadth of the effort has become clearer in recent weeks. The administration has accelerated its moves to deprive Iran of the Western-made components needed to manufacture the drones being sold to Russia after it became apparent from examining the wreckage of intercepted drones that they are stuffed with made-in-America technology.

Netanyahu government: West Bank settlements top priority (AP) Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming hard-line Israeli government put West Bank settlement expansion at the top of its priority list on Wednesday, vowing to legalize dozens of illegally built outposts and annex the occupied territory as part of its coalition deal with ultranationalist allies. The coalition agreements, released a day before the government is to be sworn into office, also included contentious judicial reforms, as well as generous stipends for ultra-Orthodox men who prefer to study instead of work. The package laid the groundwork for what is expected to be a stormy beginning for the country’s most religious and right-wing government in history, potentially putting it at odds with large parts of the Israeli public, rankling Israel’s closest allies and escalating tensions with the Palestinians.

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Events 2.1 (after 1950)

1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight. 1957 – Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashes on Rikers Island in New York City, killing 20 people and injuring 78 others. 1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. 1964 – The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand". 1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams. 1968 – Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces. 1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation. 1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. 1974 – A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293. 1979 – Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile. 1981 – The Underarm bowling incident of 1981 occurred when Trevor Chappell bowls underarm on the final delivery of a game between Australia and New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). 1991 – A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others. 1992 – The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case. 1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress. 1998 – Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral. 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, kidnapped on January 23, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors. 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. 2004 – Hajj pilgrimage stampede: In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured. 2004 – Double suicide attack in Erbil on the offices of Iraqi Kurdish political parties by members of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad. 2005 – King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers. 2007 – The National Weather Service in the United States switches from the Fujita scale to the new Enhanced Fujita scale to measure the intensity and strength of tornadoes. 2009 – The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government. 2012 – Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city of Port Said. 2013 – The Shard, the sixth-tallest building in Europe, opens its viewing gallery to the public. 2021 – A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule. 2022 – Five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Aourram falls into a 32-meter (105 feet) deep well in Ighran village in Tamorot commune, Chefchaouen Province, Morocco, but dies four days later, before rescue workers reached him.

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Romney Off-the-Wall on Ukraine

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), May 22, 2022.--Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.), 75, talked crazy about the conditions under which NATO could intervene in Ukraine, if 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to use tactical nukes.  Romey’s rambling shows that he’s lost it from the days only 10-year-ago when he was the Republican nominee in 2012 running against former President Barack Obama.  Former President Donald Trump, who became president four years later, said Romney “choked like a dog,” losing to Obama in a landslide. But ever since Romney became U.S. Senator Jan. 3, 2019, he’s led a band of anti-Trump Republicans to the detriment of the GOP and the country.  Romeny got exactly what he wanted working feverishly since taking office to help President Joe Biden get elected, upending peace-and-prosperity in the U.S.  Romney can’t help himself spewing utter rubbish about the Ukraine War.

Romney should push in the most vociferous way to peace talks in Istanbul to end the Ukraine War before it engulfs all of Europe.  “NATO could engage in Ukraine,” “potentially obliterating Russia’s struggling military,” Romney said, if Russia uses tactical nuclear weapons.  Raising hypotheticals like us flagrantly irresponsible, knowing NATO has now interest in starting WW III, or, for that matter, continuing the current war which potentially threatens Europe.  Romney, who has no influence whatsoever of U.S. foreign policy, urges President Joe Biden, 79, to tell China, India or Saudi Arabia, “You’re either with us, or you are with Russian—you cannot be both,” Romney said in a New York Times editorial.  Where Romney thinks he’s being constructive in today’s unstable situation is anyone’s guess.  He thinks Biden can bully China, India and Saudi Arabia into back the U.S. Ukraine war.

Countries in Europe, Asia and the Indian subcontinent already have grave reservations about the U.S. mission in Ukraine.  No one in Brussels or NATO signed up to take on the Russian Federation.  All you hear in the fake news is about Putin’s terminal illness, today forecasted by a former MI6 chief to end up in a sanitarium soon, never to return to power in 2023.  Ukraine and Western intelligence officials have been wildly speculating about Putin for months, meanwhile the Russian military has seized nearly all of Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast.  If you listen to the White House, Kiev and the Western Press, you’d think Russian is close to surrendering in Ukraine because of depleted troops and weaponry.  Well, for a depleted army, how has Putin managed to land-lock Ukraine, takeover nearly the entire Black Sea coast and wreak unspeakable damage over Ukraine’s infrastructure?

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov wasn’t kidding declaring May 16 that Russia had completed most its goals in Ukraine.  Creating a corridor from Russia to the Crimean Peninsula, controlling nearly all of Ukraine Black Sea coastline, it’s hard to imagine there’s much left to do for Putin.  Yet if you listen to Biden and Zelensky, Putin’s ready to surrender, because they can’t admit that they’ve lost the battle with the Russian Federation. How sad for the some 6 million exiled Ukrainians that their leader, 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, lies to the public about Ukraine’s military success almost daily.  Zelensky has duped Biden about the great progress in Ukraine, touting the fact that Putin decided to pivot in Kiev, moving his army to the Donbas region.  In only a few weeks, Putin now controls nearly the entire Black Sea coastline in Ukraine.  How’s Zelensky supposed to reclaim all the lost land?

When you listen to Romney, he 100% backs Biden’s proxy war, using Ukrainian troops to battle the Russian Federation.  Romney says if cornered, Putin could use tactical nukes in Ukraine. Romney parrots the rubbish of CIA Director William Burns who warned about the possibility of Putin getting desperate in using nukes.  Romney said that if Putin becomes “cornered and delusional” he could use tactical nukes, saying NATO would have every right to start WW III.  Romney speaks to know one other that the lunatic fringe of war hawks that could push the conflict into WW III.  Romney says that if Zelensky makes concessions to Putin, he might “invade subjugate” other European countries, the same excuse made by Zelensky for U.S. or NATO intervention.  Romney’s arguments are an incoherent hodgepodge of neocon warmongering, typical of certain Republicans and Democrat war hawks.

Calling Putin a “small, evil, feral-eyed man,” Romney continued the insults that got Biden into hot water with Putin, calling the Russian leader a “soulless killer” March 18, 2021.  Romney gets traction in the left-wing press because of his hatred of former President Donald Trump.  Listening to him now, he sounds like a madman talking about conditions for WW III.  Talking about Putin using tactical nukes is preposterous, using the same scare tactics as other neocons itching for a fight.  In case Romney hasn’t noticed, Biden is in a proxy war against the Russian Federation, using Ukrainian troops to weaken and eventually topple Putin’s government.  Romney laps up all the wild speculation about Putin’s medical condition, jumping on the bandwagon with Christopher Steele, the architect of the fake Steel dossier Hillary used in 2016 to discredit the Trump campaign and presidency.  Romney sounds like a fool arguing that Biden should send NATO troops into Ukraine, for any reason.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma. 

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Indian Army chief General Naravane Reached at Saudi Arabia on his import...

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FIRST EVER! Indian-Saudi Arabia armies to undertake joint bilateral exercises

FIRST EVER! Indian-Saudi Arabia armies to undertake joint bilateral exercises

India In December of 2020, in another significant development, Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane had visited Saudi Arabia. It was the first time any Indian Army chief had visited the west Asian country in what is a clear sign of growing ties between New Delhi and Riyadh.

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In a first, Indian and Saudi Arabia armies to undertake joint bilateral exercises

In a significant development, Indian and Saudi armies will undertake joint bilateral exercises. This will be the first such exercises of both the armies together. The Indian forces contingent will be travelling to Saudi Arabia for the exercises which will be taking place in the next financial year.  In December 2020, in another significant development, Indian Army Chief General MM Naravane had visited Saudi Arabia. It was the first time any Indian Army chief had visited the West Asian country in what is a clear sign of growing ties between New Delhi and Riyadh. The Army Chief during his trip to Saudi Arabia, he had visited the Headquarters of Royal Saudi Land Force, the Joint Force Command Headquarters and King Abdul Aziz Military Academy. Saudi Arabia identifies India as one of the Kingdom’s Strategic Partner Countries under its 'Vision 2030’. Last few years have seen an increased engagement between the two countries. The year 2019 saw the visit of Indian PM Modi to the country during which the Strategic Partnership Council Agreement was signed. Earlier that year in February, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman had visited New Delhi. During the visit, Riyadh announced investments targeting a value of USD 100 billion in India.  Source link Read the full article

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Events 7.11 (after 1900)

1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. 1914 – The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first standard-type battleship. 1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands. 1920 – In the East Prussian plebiscite the local populace decides to remain with Weimar Germany. 1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect. 1921 – The Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army and establishes the Mongolian People's Republic. 1921 – Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices. 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens. 1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. 1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic. 1940 – World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. 1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak. 1943 – World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily. 1947 – The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France. 1950 – Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank. 1960 – France legislates for the independence of Dahomey (later Benin), Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) and Niger. 1960 – Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States. 1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission. 1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth. 1971 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized. 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts. 1973 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, killing 123 of the 134 on board. In response, the FAA bans smoking in airplane lavatories. 1977 – Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968, is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 1978 – Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists. 1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. 1982 – The Italy National Football Team defeats West Germany at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to capture the 1982 FIFA World Cup. 1983 – A TAME airline Boeing 737–200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board. 1990 – Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins. 1991 – Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board. 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: Srebrenica massacre begins; lasts until 22 July. 2006 – Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India. 2010 – The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carried out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and injuring 85 others. 2010 – Spain defeat the Netherlands to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg. 2011 – Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus. 2015 – Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape. 2021 – Richard Branson becomes the first civilian to be launched into space via his Virgin Galactic spacecraft.

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General MM Naravane's Saudi Visit Will Boost Defence Ties: Army

General MM Naravane’s Saudi Visit Will Boost Defence Ties: Army

General Naravane’s visit is seen as a reflection of India’s growing strategic ties with 2 Gulf countries Riyadh: Army chief General M M Naravane’s historic visit to Saudi Arabia will strengthen bilateral defence cooperation, the Indian Army said on Monday. Gen Naravane, who arrived in Saudi Arabia on the second leg of his two-nation visit that included the United Arab Emirates, is the first-ever…