The longest written address was by President Jimmy Carter (33,667 words) in 1981; the longest spoken address was by President Bill Clinton (9,190 words) in 1995.

The previous Maithripala Sirisena government would sing the anthem in both Sinhala and Tamil, to boost ethnic harmony in the country. On February 4, the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime changed the practice.

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India had an estimated 1.16 million new cancer cases, 7,84,000 deaths and 2.26 million five-year prevalent cases in 2018.

The Iowa Democratic Party’s new mobile application was built by a company called Shadow Inc. Its work on the election was kept under wraps until now.

Domestic manufacturers of polyester have called the move a huge relief for the industry, claiming they had been fighting to remove the duty for four-and-a-half years.

What did it take for India to evacuate over 650 people from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak? The Indian Express spoke to officials who played key roles in India’s effort, to piece together the story.

Pete Buttigieg’s campaign has also released their own numbers that show the former mayor as having won the caucuses. Even the Sanders campaign’s numbers show Buttigieg doing better than more senior rivals Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren

At 80 tscf, the new reservoir, named named ‘Jebel Ali’, would be ranked the fourth largest by size in the Middle East.

A 'sustainable development fee' of 1,200 ngultrums (Rs 1,200.17) per day will now be levied on tourists from India, Bangladesh and the Maldives.

The Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra will include 15 members, of which one will be a Dalit.

During his long rule, Moi suppressed dissent and led the nation through economic turmoil, but is also remembered for the welfare measures he implemented.

The judgment delivered on January 31 by the Madurai Bench of the court addressed the struggle for supremacy between the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions that lies at the heart of several cultural battles in the state — and which also played out in the kumbhabishegam…

At secondary level, the dropout rates for boys were 32.1% in Assam, followed by Bihar (30.3), Odisha (28.7), Tripura (27.1) and Karnataka (26.4).

The budget allocation has grown 10½ times in 10½ years, exceeding the Defence Ministry’s total capital expenditure. A look at why the pension bill keeps rising, and the challenges this poses

Last month came the new study, published in the journal eLife, that concluded the average human body temperature has never been constant in the first place.

Baloch, 26 at the time of her murder, had earned both fame and vitriol on social media. Born Fauzia Azeem in a poor family in rural Pakistan, she faced an abusive husband before fleeing from her marriage.

The pests have been appearing periodically after a gap of 2-3 or 5-7 years. Around 26 locust attacks have taken place in India in two major cycles. After independence (1947), 25 attacks were observed.

Senator Mitt Romney voted with the Democrats on one article during Donald Trump's impeachment trial.

February 6 is observed as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).