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Earthquake in Northern India At 11.30 PM

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On September 07 2011, India get jolted twice. Once in the morning with a bomb blast in Delhi High Court and then late at night when a strong jolt of earthquake shake Delhi and it’s surroundings. An Earthquake jolted North India at around 11:30 PM on Wednesday. Earthquake Tremors experienced in Delhi, Faridabad, Noida, Ghaziabad and Gurgaon. There were no reports of damage or injuries as reported by Delhi NCR and Indian media. Reports suggested that the intensity of the quake was 6.6 on the Richter Scale. Update: A forum…

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Delhi High Court Bomb Blast – Bomb Blast Outside Delhi HC Gate

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Delhi High Court Bomb Blast, September 7th 2011 The Capital of India, New Delhi, once again was rocked when on today’s morning around 10.30 am a powerful bomb blasted off outside the Delhi High Court gate number 5. The bomb was planted in a briefcase and was placed outside the Delhi HC. The bomb went off when the lawyers and visitors were gathered outside the main reception counter to get the passes for entering in the premises. This powerful blast outside Delhi High Court has killed 11 Indian Citizens, injured 62…

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India-Once a Peaceful Nation Is Not So Peaceful To Live?

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India, once a peaceful nation is not so peaceful. According to the published report based on the survey of 153 nations by Global Peace Index, India is ranking 135. India is just ahead of not so peaceful countries like Pakistan (ranked 146) and Afghanistan (ranked 150). Topping the chart is Iceland as the world’s most peaceful nation replacing New Zealand. Somalia is in the bottom list as the most dangerous nation replacing Iraq. According to Steve Killelea, founder of the Global Peace Index, increasing perception of criminality in society is…

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India Finally Becomes 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup Champion

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni ‘s helicopter shot becomes the final ball of the World Cup. The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, the tenth Cricket World Cup, now belongs to India. Hurray!!! It’s a time to celebrate the Dussehra & Deepavali as India is again the World Champion after 1983. India finally wins the 2011 Cricket ICC World Cup Championship. There were the tears of joy in the eyes of Yuvraj, Harbhajan, Tendulkar and others. It was a Dream Come True not only for all Indians but also for the Little Master,…

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India Won United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Non-Permanent Seat After 19 years

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India Gets Non-Permanent Membership of UNSC After 19 Years After a gap of 19 years India was elected as a non-permanent member to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). India got 187 votes in its favour out of 192 member UN General Assembly. This is the highest number of votes received by any country for getting a non-permanent seat into the UNSC in the past five years. Germany, South Africa, Colombia and Portugal also get the non-permanent seat along with Inida. Though its a non-permanent seat and term will be…

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India launched indigenous swine flu vaccine

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In just over a year since the first case of swine flu was taken in account, there are over 1500 deaths reported in India. With aim of reducing dependency on importing swine flu vaccine, India was developing indigenous swine flu vaccine and had launched its first indigenous swine flu vaccine on 3 June, 2010; to fight H1N1 virus. This homemade swine flu vaccine was commenced by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. Zydus Cadila is the manufacturing company of the first indigenously developed H1N1 virus fighter- the Vaxiflu-S. Vaxiflu-S is priced…

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