Floods in Southeast Asia
Two cyclones - Senyar and Ditwah, led to floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia. India remains on alert.
Sports News: Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Day 7
Brazil’s Yeltsin Jacques created a new world record in the men’s 1500m T11.
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12-year-old works on creating NFT collection, sells successfully.
A 12-year-old coder named Benyamin Ahmed won £ 290,000 (or around € 338,000) after creating 3,350 pixelated digitalized whale drawings called “Weird Whales”.
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Nine new judges of Supreme Court take oath
The Supreme Court of India was established on 28th January 1950, and is the supreme judicial (legal) body of India with CJI as head. It consists of maximum of 34 judges.
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Hurricane Ida – a category 4 storm hits coastal area of New Orleans
Hurricane Ida is the strongest storm to hit Louisiana in at least 165 years. It is a category 4 storm with winds up to 150 m/h (or 240 km/h).
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IRCTC’s Special Train ‘Bharat Darshan’ Starts the Tour
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) ran a special tourist train ‘Bharat Darshan – Splendors of India’ from Sunday, 29th August.
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Bhavina wins historic silver at Tokyo Paralympics
Indian table tennis player Bhavinaben Patel signed off with a historic silver medal in her maiden Paralympic Games after an unfortunate loss to world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou in the women’s singles.
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Scientists Discover World’s Northernmost Island
A group of researchers have found the world’s northernmost island off the north coast of Greenland.
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Launch of 100-day SUJALAM campaign
Jal Shakti ministry has launched a 100-day SUJALAM campaign. The campaign aims to create one million soak pits in villages all over India in the next hundred days.
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Sports News: Tokyo Summer Paralympics 2020
Tokyo, Aug 28: Here is an update of India’s performance on day 4 of the Tokyo Summer Paralympics 2020.
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Asian Wasp nests glow fluorescent green under UV light
Scientists have recently for the first time have found that Asian paper wasp (genus Polistes) nest can glow in fluorescent green colour, when kept under UV (ultraviolet) rays.
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