Ashutosh Sharma Thomson Reuters Foundation When half a dozen trucks loaded with construction material screeched to a halt on their farms, Baryam Singh and fellow residents in the Indian village of Bobiy

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 30   Reuters 1938 - Millions of Americans panicked when the radio play of the H G Wells book "The War of the Worlds" was broadcast

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 29   Reuters 1923 - Turkey became a republic under its first president, Kemal Ataturk.   1998 - Astronaut John Glenn, 77

Dr Fr George Keduolhou Dzeyie Vice Principal (Students Affairs) St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Jakhama– Kohima “If a man is interested in himself only, he is very small; if he is interested

K Yatish Rajawat  IANS The fraud at Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank shows that there is a rot in the system and not the bank. If unchecked, it can cause irreparable damage to the sys

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 28     Reuters 1919 - The Volstead Prohibition Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. It prohibited the sale of drink containing

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 26:   1905 - Revolutionary Russian workers in St Petersburg formed the first Soviet, or workers' assembly, in a brief uprising. &

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 24   Reuters 1929 - Share prices collapsed as nearly 13 million shares changed hands in panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 23   Reuters 1906 - Paul Cezanne, French Post-Impressionist painter, died. Among his best known works are "Card Players" and "Mont Sa

Arun Kejriwal   IANS  It was a great week for the bourses as markets gained on each of the five trading days last week. BSESENSEX gained 1,171.30 points or 3.07 per cent to close at 39,298.38 p

DC Pathak  IANS  The announcement by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15 that the government had decided to appoint a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to consolidate

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 21     Reuters 1945 - Women vote for the first time in France.   1966 - A colliery slag heap slid and buried a scho

A plastic bottle drifts on the waves of the sea at a fishing port in Isumi, east of Tokyo, Japan November 21, 2018. (Reuters File Photo)     Eric Onstad Reuters Global bottled water gia

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 18   Reuters 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) was formed.   1931 - The American inventor Thomas Alva Edison

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 17   Reuters 1931 - American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion.   1961 - Riot police and Algerians demonstrating

Catherine Kulnu Asst Prof, St Joseph's College, Jakhama Money is the root cause of evil people say. But according to me laziness is the root cause of evil. According to the Catholic principles being laz

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 16   Reuters 1946 - A number of top German Nazis were hanged at Nuremberg after being found guilty of war crimes. They included for

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 15   Reuters 1943 - Italy declared war on its former Axis partner Germany in World War Two.   1990 - St Basil's Russian

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct14     Reuters 1912 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was shot by a would-be assassin in Milwaukee. He was saved by his thick

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 11   Reuters 1899 - Beginning of second Boer War.   1961 - Leonard "Chico" Marx, the piano-playing member of the Marx Br