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Gas and Oil fields are located in Naharkatiya, Assam. Oil from the fields is sent to Nunmati for refining and gas is made into electricity at Namrup.

Nandala Bose

Windows operating system uses the NTFS file system.

India’s P.V. Sindhu avenged her Rio Olympic final defeat to Spain’s Carolina Marin in an emphatic style with a straight game 21-19, 21-16 win in the women’s singles final of India Open Super Series at a packed Siri Fort Sports Complex on 2 April 2017.

– It is worth mentioning that Sindhu had lost to Marin the Rio Olympic women’s singles final. But she avenged her Olympic final defeat to Marin in an imperious fashion with a straight game. This was Sindhu’s first India Open Super Series title.

The harvest festival of Baisakhi popularly celebrated in North India coincides with the Songkran festival of Thailand, the Thingyan in Myanmar and the Aluth Avurudda in Sri Lanka. In all the latter three festivals, the coming of a New Year is the central theme and involves various indigenous ways of celebrations.

India’s leading cueist Pankaj Advani teamed up with Laxman Rawat to demolish Pakistan in the final of the Asian Team Snooker Championship by 3-0 in Bishskek, Kyrgyszstan on July 5, 2017. With the title and the win in the final, Advani remained the only player not to lose a single individual match in the team event. This title brings up Advani’s second Asian title this season and 8th overall while it was a first major first international title for Rawat.

Sulphur is an yellow element that stinks when burned.

The President expressed his gratitude to The Statesman for bringing out a photo essay on the 13th Presidency. He appreciated the wonderful photos taken by Shri Varun Joshi from The Statesman that feature in the photo essay. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi said that the photo essay was important from the historical perspective.