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The Sahara is the biggest desert in the world.

It occupies the northern one third of the African continent.

Kandoori festival is a festival which is celebrated by the Muslims of South India every year with great enthusiasm and grace. The festival is celebrated in commemoration of the anniversary of the saint's death, and pilgrims participate in the rituals and rites.

The 462nd annual Kandoori festival has commenced at nearby Nagore Dargah, a famous Muslim pilgrim centre in Tamilnadu.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) elected Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey as president and Naveen N D Gupta as vice-president. They have been elected for the year 2017-18. Vikamsey, who served as vice-president, has been a member of the ICAI since 1985. Gupta has been a chartered accountant for more than 20 years.

The Qatar Airways has launched the World’s longest scheduled commercial service to ply between Doha to Auckland. The inaugural service of Flight QR920 took off on February 5, 2017 from Doha and will take 16 hours and 20 minutes to travel 14,535 kilometers to reach Auckland in New Zealand.
This makes Qatar Airways to launch the World’s fastest and longest passenger service in terms of flying time. Prior to this, emirates launched the world’s longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight with a service from Dubai to Auckland, spanning 14,200 kilometres.

In the bond formation of barium with oxygen, the valency electrons from the barium transferred to the oxygen and forms an ionic bond.

Snehlata Shrivastava, appointed as the first woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha. The appointment was made by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. Ms. Shrivastava will replace Anoop Mishra, who retired on November 30, 2017. 

Ms. Shrivastava, a senior civil servant with 35 years of rich and varied administrative experience is a 1982 batch IAS officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre.

Rama Devi holds the distinction of the being the first woman secretary general of the Rajya Sabha.