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There is more than one hat that Hima Das, popularly known as “Ding Express” in Assam, dons. A world class athlete, who swept past global competition with relative ease in under-20 world championship in Tampere, is a socially-conscious teenager, who participated in a crusade to close liquor shops, and ensure education for girl children in her village, said her family, who recalled how a school teacher made her take athletics in place of her first love, football. Daughter of a rice-farmer, gutsy Das, was spotted by a teacher of Jawahar Navodaya Vidalaya in Morigaon, Assam, Shams Ul Haq, in 2011-12 when she visited the Central government run school for a sporting event. “She won all the athletics events. I told the district sports officer that she can do well if trained properly,” the physical training teacher said. “She was focused and wanted to win everything even as a child.” In over a year, she was a district champ but took almost two years to reach the state-l...

Recently South Korean president Moon Jae-in and PM Narendra Modi inaugurated a Samsung Electronics facility in Noida in Uttar Pradesh South Korea will increase its production from 67 million currently in India to nearly 120 million Samsung's Noida plant was set up in 1995-96 Samsung to invest 4915 crore for expanding the unit, from here it will not only serve India but other western and European countries too The new facility will be set up on an additional land of 35 acres adjacent to the current facility It will double the production of mobile phones and refrigerators and provide employment to a lot of Indians  South Korea Grand Strategy Moon embarked on state visits to India and Singapore from July 8 to 13 as part of efforts to speed up his "New Southern Policy" initiative.  India and Singapore, who were allied with the U.S. much more during the Obama administration, now worry about being "bullied" as all other allies, such as Mexico, Canada ...

What is Hambantota story? Hambantota air port is located close to Hambantota Naval port Hambantota is the main town in Hambantota district, Southern Province Srilanka  It was hit by 2004 Tsunami  Chinese always had an eye on Hambantota It is twinned with Guangzhou, China since 2007 In 2009 Srilankan army defeated LTTE and Mahindra Rajapaksa took over the Srilankan government as the 6th president China favored and supported Rajapaksa Rajapaksa wanted to built a port in Hambantota, but India refused saying no economic profit China helped Rajapaksa by offering a loan of $307 billion via EXIM bank China dictated the terms on using of the money, all tenders to be filed by Chinese companies Chinese supported Rajapaksa in 2015 election, hestill lost to Maithripala Sirisena  Srilanka is in huge debt of roughly around $13 billion Sirisena supports India Srilanka gave Hambantota Naval port to China on lease for 99 years, for $1.1 billion to pay the Chinese de...