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CM Nitish Kumar offers 'Arghya' on last day of Chhath Puja
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], November 21 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took part in Chhath Puja rituals on the last day of the festival by offering prayers to the Sun God at his residence.
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Prayagraj: Women celebrate Bhaidooj on Yamuna river bank
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 16 (ANI): Bhaidooj celebrations were performed on the banks of river Yamuna as women offered prayers and hailed the Sun god on Monday morning.
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Anything can be organised with stringent SOPs: Goa Health Minister on Sunb
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], November 7 (ANI): Speaking about the Sunburn Festival in Goa, Health Minister, Vishwajit Rane said that anything can be organised as long as there are stringent Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in place.
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Mars to be opposite, closest to Sun on October 13
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): Planet Mars will be opposite and closest to the Sun in the sky on October 13.
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Second alignment plane of solar system discovered
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 29 (ANI): A study of comet motions indicates that the solar system has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to
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School-bus-size asteroid to safely zoom past Earth
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): A small near-Earth asteroid (or NEA) will briefly visit Earth's neighbourhood on Thursday, September 24, zooming past at a distance of about 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometres) above our planet's surface.
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Jupiter's moons could be warming each other
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): Jupiter's moons are hot. Well, hotter than they should be, for being so far from the Sun. In a process called tidal heating, gravitational tugs from Jupiter's moons and the planet itself stretch and squish the moons enough to warm them. As a result, some
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PM Modi shares video of 'iconic Sun Temple of Modhera on a rainy day'
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday shared a video of the Sun Temple located in Modhera, Gujarat and said it looked "iconic on a rainy day".
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Astronomers discover 100 'cool worlds' near Sun
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hawaii [US], August 18 (ANI): Astronomers and a team of data-sleuthing volunteers participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, have discovered roughly 100 cool worlds near the Sun -- objects more massive than planets but lighter than stars, known as brown dwarfs.
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Sun may have started life with binary companion
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Massachusetts [USA], August 18 (ANI): A new theory published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the Sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass.
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On Navroz, know all about traditional 'Haft-Sin' table and its significanc
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 16 (ANI): To usher the new year, Parsi and Irani community celebrate 'Navroz', the Parsi New Year as per Iranian Calendar. It begins at the stroke of the vernal equinox when the sun crosses the equator.
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Authorities say burglary at Ellen DeGeneres' house was an 'inside job'
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], August 16 (ANI): A burglary that took place at American comedian Ellen DeGeneres' house in Montecito, California last month was an "inside job", according to information obtained by The Sun.
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