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Brazilian footballer Pele, only player to win three FIFA World Cup titles,
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Pele, whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento, is considered as one of the greatest to ever step a foot on a football pitch. He is the only player to have won three FIFA World Cup titles, having won the top prize in football in 1958, 1962 and 1970. The footballer also boasts of num
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'Serial killer' Charles Sobhraj heads to France after being freed from Nep
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
French 'serial killer' Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, left for France on Friday after being freed from a 20-year spell in a Nepali prison, reported France24.
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Who is Charles Sobhraj known as the 'Bikini Killer'?
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The French citizen with Vietnamese and Indian parentage committed a string of murders throughout Asia in the 1970s. Sobhraj, who has been implicated in more than 20 killings, served 21 years in prison in India for poisoning a French tourist and killing an Israeli national.
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When Pakistan's Operation Blitz failed and opened the gates for Bangladesh
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sahibzada Yakub Khan who was posted as commander, Eastern Command, in 1969 had conceived a security plan titled 'Op Blitz', meant to counter any unrest in East Pakistan. This was formulated much before the 1970 elections and on 11 December 1970, within days of the general elections in Pak
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'Between Dusk and Dawn, Pakistan was ruled by pimps': Time Magazine's desc
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The most important event domestically under Yahya Khan's watch was the 1970 elections and their aftermath. Yahya created a National Security Cell (NSC) to help him assess the evolving political situation and to get an estimate of the likely makeup of parliament and the role that the army
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'Will make Kanpur Manchester of UP once again': Yogi Adityanath
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The CM said, "Once upon a time, Kanpur used to be known as the Manchester of UP. But between 1970 and 1980, Kanpur grabbed eyeballs for all the wrong reasons and became the epicentre of anarchy."
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On this day in 1970, former Australian opener Justin Langer was born
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The batter was one of the biggest pillars of a highly-successful Australian set-up in Test cricket. Known as a highly elegant driver and cutter of the ball, this batter played along with legends like Adam Gilchrist, Michael Clarke, Matthew Hayden, former skipper Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, B
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Study finds that honey bee life spans are 50 per cent shorter today than t
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
A new study by entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50 per cent shorter than it was in the 1970s.
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Welfare of tribal communities is government's foremost priority, says PM M
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Vyara (Gujarat) [India], October 21 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday laid the foundation stone of multiple development initiatives worth over Rs. 1970 crore in Vyara, Tapi.
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Rockabilly revivalist Robert Gordon passes away at 75
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Robert Gordon, one of rockabilly's earliest revivalists and a familiar presence on the 1970s New York City punk rock scene passed away on Tuesday.
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Research finds reason behind some countries switching to green energy
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Berkeley [US], October 7 (ANI): Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the spring of 2022, the price of oil and gas surged, sparking a comparable worldwide energy crisis to the one that occurred in the 1970s. While some nations reacted to the price shock by accelerating the switch to c
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Judge denies retrial for Bill Cosby in Judy Huth sexual assault case
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has stated that American comedian and actor Bill Cosby, in his sexual assault civil case involving a minor from the 1970s, will not get to re-litigate.
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