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From jaws of death to an Olympic gold: Amazing story of Murlikant Petkar

Murlikant Rajaram Petkar is India's first Paralympic gold medallist, winning the 50-meter freestyle swimming event at the Summer Paralympics held at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1972.

Mar 25, 2018

By Mohd Asim Khan

Egypt launches WhatsApp hotline for reporting fake news

Egypt's citizens can report any of the fabricated news violations by sending messages to the General Prosecution office via the WhatsApp hotline.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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A view shows Morocco's northern town of Al-Hoceima

Morocco positions itself as gateway for African outreach

Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani was the first head of the government to participate in the CMF, which is annually being held in this city since 2015.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

Hollywood celebs join protests against gun violence

Actress Connie Britton brought her son, who is in first standard, to the march.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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'Read Me Tender': The King of Rock 'n' Roll's fictional gigs

Elvis Presley's depictions across all media, save literature, where his appearances rarely match his status.

Mar 25, 2018

By Vikas Datta

Lupita Nyong'o arrives at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA)

Lupita Nyong'o wants own Marvel movie

The actress trained hard for her role and said doing her own stunts left her feeling like she could achieve anything.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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BANGKOK, Feb. 8, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken with smartphone on Feb. 8, 2018 shows air pollution over the city in Bangkok, Thailand. (Xinhua/Yang Zhou/IANS)

Beijing issues orange smog alert

Under China's four-tier warning system, red is the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

SpaceX founder Elon Musk waves at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center

Nothing political, I just don't like Facebook: Musk

Prior to the deletion, both the two pages had over 2.6 million Likes and Follows, and super high engagement rates.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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The rain continues to fall in Cape Town during day three of the first Test match between South Africa and India at the Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town,

BCCI office bearers meet 'informally', go hammer and tongs against COA

The BCCI officials also discussed how COA was appointing people at exorbitant salaries without consulting the members or following any procedure.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

NASA seeks Media inputs on first mission to study Mars interior

NASA's InSight will take off from the West Coast on May 5 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

Mar 25, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

Climate Change havoc: Arctic sea ice cover peaks, NASA launches ICESat-2 survey

Beginning March 22, NASA has undertaken the Operation IceBridge to map the distribution and thickness of ice in the Arctic Ocean with its Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2).

Mar 25, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

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Trump moves to ban most transgenders in military

LGBT advocates quickly denounced the move, The Trump-Pence Administration is going all in on its discriminatory, unconstitutional and despicable ban on transgender troops, saod Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

#DeleteFacebook catches up, Elon Musk deletes SpaceX, Tesla Facebook pages

Responding to a Twitter call to take down the SpaceX, Tesla and Musk official pages in support of the #DeleteFacebook movement by saying "I didn't realize there was one. Will do."

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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