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China trying to consolidate position in Tibet by highlighting Mt. Everest on Tibetan side, says expert

As per experts, Nepal and China had signed a border dispute resolution agreement in 1960 according to which it was decided that Mount Everest will be divided, and southern part of it will belong to Nepal and Northern part to Tibet Autonomous Region which China claims as its own.




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The things Russell Wilson does doesn’t happen by accident

The separation is in the preparation.




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Giants renegotiate Cooper Rush’s deal

The Giants claimed Cooper Rush off waivers from their division rivals earlier this week. It makes sense given Rush's familiarity with new offensive coordinator Jason Garrett's offense. Rush can help teach it to starter Daniel Jones. Of course, the Giants don't expect Rush to play. Thus, they renegotiated Rush's deal, which was due to pay [more]




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Man opens fire in Shaheen Bagh, shouts 'Jai Shree Ram'

No one was injured in the incident that came even as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a poll rally in Delhi's northwest Rohini area alleged that those who support terrorists in Kashmir are staging protest at Shaheen Bagh.




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2 men open fire outside Delhi's Jamia University

A senior police official said a case of attempt to murder under relevant sections of the IPC and the Arms Act was registered in connection with the incident and an investigation is underway.




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In Lok Sabha speech, PM taunts Congress, defends CAA

Replying to a debate on Motion of Thanks to the President's Address in Lok Sabha, Modi also attacked the Congress for its politics in the last seven decades, saying the party's politics of last 70 years has been such that no Congress leader can be self-sufficient.




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Is that building shaped as a fish?

The 2019 winners of the Art of Building competition, run by the Chartered Institute of Building, have been announced.Take a look at the winners from the competition.






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PHOTOS: IAF's Chinook begins operations in Siachen

The chopper was inducted into service in March last year.




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After 7 months, schools reopen in Kashmir Valley

The students were happy to be back at the schools after remaining home all these months.




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America loves India, respects India: Trump @Motera

The 'Namaste Trump' event is based on the lines of 'Howdy Modi' programme that was addressed by Narendra Modi and Trump during the PM's trip to Houston last September.




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Situation peaceful in riot-hit Delhi

Security personnel have been conducting flag marches and holding regular consultations with locals to assuage their fears. They are also urging residents to not pay attention to rumours on social media and report them to the police.






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Delhi lockdown: Few cars, people on roads

The Health and Family Welfare department had issued a detailed order on Sunday, notifying the lockdown in the whole of Delhi, stipulating various restrictions.




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Showing their balcony spirit: Hope during COVID-19

From dancing to playing musical instruments to exercising... balconies across the world have become the hospot as people continue to quarantine and self-isolate themselves at homes to fight against the coronavirus pandemic.




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227 new COVID-19 cases, sharpest jump in single day

The government said there was no immediate plan to extend the 21-day lockdown period, which entered its sixth day on Monday, while the Indian Army dismissed as "fake" social media posts about a possible emergency declaration next month.




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Pink Supermoon -- distraction we need from COVID-19

Looking to catch a break from all the events surrounding coronavirus, then here's some amazing images from the pink supermoon that occurred on Tuesday night, enthralling all!




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Many throng wedding venue of HDK's son despite appeal

Nikhil, son of former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, tied the nuptial knot with Revathi, the grand-niece of former Karnataka housing minister M Krishnappa.The marriage was solemnised at Kumaraswamy's Kethaganahalli farmhouse at Bidadi in the neighbouring Ramanagara district, a JD-S stronghold.




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People observe Ramzan in lockdown shadow

Religious places including mosques have been closed for over a month now. And with clerics advising all to stay home and social distancing becoming the norm, people are unable to get together for prayers and Iftar, a ritual of breaking fast every evening, that are a key part of Islam's holiest month.






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Chaos as liquor shops open after 40 days

Liquor shops reopened across the country in the non-containment zones after 40 days from Monday with people queuing up in large numbers, giving social distancing norms a toss at some places.




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India begins lockdown 3.0; more cars, people on roads

Massive crowds thronged liquor stores, more vehicles plied on roads and cab-hailing platforms resumed services as India entered the third phase of the lockdown on Monday with further easing of curbs except in containment zones in the shadow of the highest rate of recovery yet from coronavirus.




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Hefty corona fee doesn't dampen tipplers' spirits

Undeterred by the threat of coronavirus infection or the 'special corona fee' of 70 per cent levied on alcohol, hundreds of tipplers queued up outside liquor vends in the national capital for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, keeping the police on their toes.




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Railways spent Rs 50 cr to move 70K migrants in 5 days

A day after opposition parties, including the Congress launched a scathing attack against the Union government and the railways for charging money from migrants for the travel, sources in the railways said the national transporter is spending around Rs 80 lakh per service for the special trains, and it has run 67 such trains carrying around 67,000 stranded migrants since May 1--- incurring an expenditure of over Rs 50 crore.




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Super 'Flower' Moon dazzles skygazers across the world

The final supermoon of 2020 made an appearance in the night sky on Thursday night and stunned stargazers with its sheer size and brightness.The full moon will appear about six per cent larger than a typical full moon.




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It Happened Here: The Invention of Santa Claus

Though legend has it that Santa Claus hails from the North Pole, he was actually a New Yorker who came into the world on West 23rd Street in what is now the trendy Chelsea neighborhood.

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Thomas Nast and George Webster. Santa Claus and his works. New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca 1870. New-York Historical Society, YC1870.Web.

Though legend has it that Santa Claus hails from the North Pole, he was actually a New Yorker who came into the world on West 23rd Street in what is now the trendy Chelsea neighborhood.

The modern Santa was born in the imagination of Clement Clarke Moore, a scholar who penned a whimsical poem about St. Nicholas, the patron of old Dutch New York, for the amusement of his six children at Christmastime. Soon after the publication of "A Visit from St. Nicholas"—popularly known today by its opening line, "Twas the night before Christmas…""—St. Nicholas became a popular feature of American Christmas celebrations. Moore's poem permanently connected St. Nicholas to Christmas, and led to our idea of Santa Claus.

Santa's popularity, appearance and many of the holiday traditions that surround him owe much to the imaginative work of two other New Yorkers: Washington Irving, the creator of Knickerbocker's History of New York, and Thomas Nast, an artist whose drawings of Santa were reproduced all over the country in the years following the Civil War.

To celebrate the winter season, the New-York Historical Society is presenting It Happened Here: The Invention of Santa Claus, an installation tracing the modern image of Santa Claus, the red-suited, pot-bellied descendant of the medieval bishop St. Nicholas of Myra, which emerged only decades after the first Congress met in 1788 in Federal Hall in New York.  The exhibition features Robert Weir's 1837 painting of a rather sly St. Nicholas and Thomas Nast's Harper's Weekly cartoons of Santa. Clement Clarke Moore's desk is on display in the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture.

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 Video excerpt: The Santa Files with John Sergant (c) 2010 Fine Stripe Productions.




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'I'm your longing for life': Kangana Ranaut pens down beauti...

'I'm your longing for life': Kangana Ranaut pens down beauti...




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Govt allows opening 3000 CBSE affiliated schools for evaluating class 10, 1...

Govt allows opening 3000 CBSE affiliated schools for evaluating class 10, 1...




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Mortality increases if COVID-19 positive person delays in visiting hospital...

Mortality increases if COVID-19 positive person delays in visiting hospital...




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IPL: Former CSK opener Matthew Hayden reveals MS Dhoni's epic first re...

IPL: Former CSK opener Matthew Hayden reveals MS Dhoni's epic first re...




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Nagaland tests more suspected samples

Nagaland tests more suspected samples




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Centre urged to confer Bharat Ratna on Upendranath Brahma

Centre urged to confer Bharat Ratna on Upendranath Brahma




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Upper Assam people stranded outside State reach Jorhat

Upper Assam people stranded outside State reach Jorhat




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Liquor shops closed pending use of new MRP on products

Liquor shops closed pending use of new MRP on products




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Culling only way to contain African swine fever: expert

Culling only way to contain African swine fever: expert




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NGO charts unique way to induce people into donating

NGO charts unique way to induce people into donating




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CSS character escape sequences

When writing CSS for markup with weird class or id attribute values, you need to consider some rules. For example, you can’t just use ## { color: #f00; } to target the element with id="#". Instead, you’ll have to escape the weird characters (in this case, the second #). Doing so will cancel the meaning of special CSS characters and allows you to refer to characters you cannot easily type out, like crazy Unicode symbols.




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Using `setTimeout` to speed up `window.onload`

A few days ago, Martín Borthiry contacted me with a question. He had been using the optimized asynchronous Google Analytics snippet for a while, and noticed an additional speed gain when wrapping it inside a setTimeout() with a delay of 0 milliseconds. His tests made it pretty clear that this technique was indeed slightly faster, but Martín had no clue why.




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The end-tag open (ETAGO) delimiter

According to HTML4, the first occurrence of the character sequence



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JavaScript `foo.prototype.bar` notation

As a follow-up to the post documenting a few popular HTML element + attribute notations, here’s a similar one about JavaScript.




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Ambiguous ampersands

In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what happens if there’s an unencoded ampersand that’s not part of a character reference in your HTML code. Is it valid? Is it invalid? And what do “ambiguous ampersands” have to do with all this?




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JavaScript character escape sequences

Having recently written about character references in HTML, I figured it would be interesting to look into JavaScript character escapes as well.




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Unquoted property names / object keys in JavaScript

Fun fact: var foo = { H̹̙̦̮͉̩̗̗ͧ̇̏̊̾Eͨ͆͒̆ͮ̃͏̷̮̣̫̤̣Cͯ̂͐͏̨̛͔̦̟͈̻O̜͎͍͙͚̬̝̣̽ͮ͐͗̀ͤ̍̀͢M̴̡̲̭͍͇̼̟̯̦̉̒͠Ḛ̛̙̞̪̗ͥͤͩ̾͑̔͐ͅṮ̴̷̷̗̼͍̿̿̓̽͐H̙̙̔̄͜: 42 }; is valid JavaScript. It may not be immediately obvious, but the real surprise here is that the Cthulhu-esque property name is not surrounded by quotes. Intrigued by this, and having written about the similar topic of JavaScript identifiers before, I decided to look into valid property names in JavaScript. When do they need to be quoted? When can the quotes be omitted? And in which cases can dot notation be used instead of bracket notation to get or set a property based on its name?




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How to speedrun Dropbox’s Dropquest 2012

Are you a Dropbox user? By completing this year’s Dropquest, you can get 1 GB of extra Dropbox storage space, for free. Here’s how to do that as fast as possible.




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Loading JSON-formatted data with Ajax and `xhr.responseType='json'`

This post explains a hidden gem in the XMLHttpRequest standard that simplifies fetching and parsing JSON data through Ajax.




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Unicode property escapes in JavaScript regular expressions

ES2018 adds support for Unicode property escapes of the form p{…} and P{…} to JavaScript regular expressions. This article explains what Unicode property escapes are, how they work, and why they’re useful.




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JavaScript engine fundamentals: Shapes and Inline Caches

This article describes some key fundamentals that are common to all JavaScript engines — and not just V8, the engine the authors work on. As a JavaScript developer, having a deeper understanding of how JavaScript engines work helps you reason about the performance characteristics of your code.