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Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Delhi)
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Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in New Delhi, India, is a multipurpose sports arena hosting football and other sporting events, as well as large-scale entertainment events. It is named after the first Prime Minister of India, the all-seater facility seats 60,000 spectators, and up to 100,000 for concerts. In terms of seating capacity, it is the fourth largest multipurpose stadium in India, the stadium complex also houses the headquarters of the Sports Authority of India, the field arm of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, and Indian Olympic Association. In preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the stadium reduced its capacity from 78,000 to 60,254 spectators, the stadium played host to Amnesty Internationals Human Rights Now. Benefit Concert on 30 September 1988, the show was headlined by Sting and Peter Gabriel, and also featured Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Tracy Chapman, Youssou NDour, and Ravi Shankar. The project was led and managed by Mr. Ramji Lal from CPWD, michael Jackson was scheduled to perform 2 concerts at the stadium in December 1993 as a part of his Dangerous World Tour. This would have been the first time Jackson would have performed in India, MTV India and other T. V. channels played Jacksons music videos months before the concert which created mass hysteria and anticipation in the public for the concerts and Jacksons visit to India. Both the concerts were expected to be sold out and these two concerts were scheduled to be the last performances of the tour. Unfortunately the concerts in Delhi along with the dates for Indonesia and Australia were cancelled due to Jacksons health problems, the Stadium has hosted two One Day International matches featuring India against Australia in 1984 which incidentally, was the first day night one day international in India. And South Africa in 1991, again the fixture being a day night one, batsman Kepler Wessels played in both the matches but for different countries and scored 107 for Australia and 90 for South Africa. Some local National Football League matches have also played here. The stadium was the venue for the 2011 South Asian Football Federation Cup. On 10 January 2012, the Government of India, and Audi, in this one-sided affair, the German club has defeated Indian team by 4-0 in front of 30,000 spectators. This was the match to Baichung Bhutia as Indian National Football Team captain. Since 2014 Indian Super League season, it has been home ground for Delhi Dynamos FC, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was the main venue for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies as well as events for the Delhi Games. The stadium underwent massive redesign and reconstruction for the biggest multi-sport event hosted by India to that date and it was opened to the general public on 27 July 2010. In July 2010, the first-ever Asian All Asian Athletics Championship was held, over 1,500 students from schools came to see the event
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Road running
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Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road. These events are classified as long-distance according to athletics terminology. They may involve large numbers of runners or wheelchair entrants, the three most common IAAF recognized distances for road running events are 10K runs, half marathons and marathons. Despite this, there are far more 5K road race events, due to their popularity for charity races and similar, less competitive reasons to hold an event. Road running may offer those involved a range of challenges and interests such as dealing with hills, sharp bends, varied surfaces, inclement weather, aerobic fitness, or the ability of the body to use oxygen, is the biggest factor contributing to success. The impact of running on roads puts more stress on the feet, knees and it can compensate by providing a consistent, level surface. It may put less strain on the Achilles tendon, before engaging in road running, one should choose a shoe that best suits ones foot type and running style. Road running is one of forms of road racing, which also include road bicycle racing. Race courses are held on the streets of major cities and towns. Other common distances include 5 kilometres,8 kilometres,12 kilometres, some major events have unique distances. Most road race courses are certified to be accurate to within 0. 1%, certified courses are often intentionally lengthened by one metre per km to ensure that they are not short of the stated distance. A Jones Counter attached to a bicycle is used to course length. Remeasurement to verify the length is undertaken when a record is set on a course. Running that covers a distance farther than a marathon is called ultrarunning, such events can be measured in distance or by time. Beyond the ultramarathon lie the multiday and stage races, Road running is unique among athletic events because in many cases first time amateurs are welcome to participate in the same event as members of running clubs and even current world-class champions. Sometimes race times are recorded manually by race organizers, most road races feature electronic timing using transponders, Road races are often community-wide events that highlight or raise money for an issue or project. In the USA, Susan G. Komens Race for the Cure is held nationwide to raise breast cancer awareness and this race is also run in Germany, Italy and Puerto Rico. Similarly, Race for Life holds races throughout the UK to raise money for Cancer Research UK, first person race reports frequently appear on the Dead Runners Society electronic mailing list
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Half marathon
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A half marathon is a road running event of 21.0975 kilometres – half the distance of a marathon. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily since 2003, partly due to the fact that it is a challenging distance, in 2008, Running USA reported that the half marathon is the fastest growing type of race. A2010 article by Universal Sports mentioned the popularity of the distance. It is common for a marathon event to be held concurrently with a marathon, using almost the same course with a late start. The half marathon is known as a 21K,21. 1K or 13.1 miles, although these values are rounded. In many races finisher medals are awarded but they may differ from concurrent full marathons by color, wording, in other events both races are put on the same medal although their ribbons may vary. A half marathon world record is recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. This table lists the best half marathon performances per year since 1970, in 2014, the largest half marathon in the world was the Göteborgsvarvet, also known as the Gothenburg half marathon, in Sweden with 64,288 announced runners and 47,491 finishers. The largest half marathon ever held was Broloppet between Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmö in Sweden with 79,719 finishers, held in connection with the Öresund Bridge inauguration in 2000. List of half marathon races IAAF World Half Marathon Championships Mini marathon Quarter marathon Half marathon world record progression IAAF list of records in XML
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New Delhi
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New Delhi is the capital of India and one of Delhi citys 11 districts. The National Capital Region is a larger entity comprising the entire National Capital Territory along with adjoining districts. The foundation stone of the city was laid by George V and it was designed by British architects, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker. The new capital was inaugurated on 13 February 1931, by Viceroy, New Delhi has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under Prime Minister of India Narendra Modis flagship Smart Cities Mission. Calcutta was the capital of India during the British Raj until December 1911, Delhi had served as the political and financial centre of several empires of ancient India and the Delhi Sultanate, most notably of the Mughal Empire from 1649 to 1857. During the early 1900s, a proposal was made to the British administration to shift the capital of the British Indian Empire, as India was officially named, from Calcutta on the east coast, to Delhi. The Government of British India felt that it would be easier to administer India from Delhi in the centre of northern India. The land for building the new city of Delhi was acquired under the Land Acquisition Act 1894. The foundation stone of New Delhi was laid by King George V and Queen Mary at the site of Delhi Durbar of 1911 at Kingsway Camp on 15 December 1911, during their imperial visit. Large parts of New Delhi were planned by Edwin Lutyens, who first visited Delhi in 1912, the contract was given to Sobha Singh. The original plan called for its construction in Tughlaqabad, inside the Tughlaqabad fort, construction really began after World War I and was completed by 1931. The city that was later dubbed Lutyens Delhi was inaugurated in ceremonies beginning on 10 February 1931 by Lord Irwin, Lutyens designed the central administrative area of the city as a testament to Britains imperial aspirations. Soon Lutyens started considering other places, however, it was rejected by the Viceroy when the cost of acquiring the necessary properties was found to be too high. The central axis of New Delhi, which faces east at India Gate, was previously meant to be a north-south axis linking the Viceroys House at one end with Paharganj at the other. During the projects early years, many believed it was a gate from Earth to Heaven itself. Eventually, owing to space constraints and the presence of a number of heritage sites in the North side. A site atop the Raisina Hill, formerly Raisina Village, a Meo village, was chosen for the Rashtrapati Bhawan, then known as the Viceroys House. The reason for this choice was that the hill lay directly opposite the Dinapanah citadel, which was considered the site of Indraprastha
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India
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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and it is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, in the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a border with Thailand. The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd millennium BCE, in the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires, the later peninsular Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as southeast Asia. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate, the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire. The economy expanded in the 17th century in the Mughal empire, in the mid-18th century, the subcontinent came under British East India Company rule, and in the mid-19th under British crown rule. A nationalist movement emerged in the late 19th century, which later, under Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for nonviolent resistance, in 2015, the Indian economy was the worlds seventh largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity. Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the major economies and is considered a newly industrialised country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition, a nuclear weapons state and regional power, it has the third largest standing army in the world and ranks sixth in military expenditure among nations. India is a constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society and is home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats. The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word Hindu, the latter term stems from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which was the historical local appellation for the Indus River. The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi, which translates as The people of the Indus, the geographical term Bharat, which is recognised by the Constitution of India as an official name for the country, is used by many Indian languages in its variations. Scholars believe it to be named after the Vedic tribe of Bharatas in the second millennium B. C. E and it is also traditionally associated with the rule of the legendary emperor Bharata. Gaṇarājya is the Sanskrit/Hindi term for republic dating back to the ancient times, hindustan is a Persian name for India dating back to the 3rd century B. C. E. It was introduced into India by the Mughals and widely used since then and its meaning varied, referring to a region that encompassed northern India and Pakistan or India in its entirety
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International Association of Athletics Federations
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The International Association of Athletics Federations is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. It was founded on 17 July 1912 as the International Amateur Athletic Federation by representatives from 17 national athletics federations at the organizations first congress in Stockholm, since October 1993, it has been headquartered in Monaco. Beginning in 1982, the IAAF passed several amendments to its rules to allow athletes to receive compensation for participating in international competitions. However, the organization retained the word amateur in its name until its 2001 congress, the IAAFs president is Sebastian Coe of the United Kingdom. He was elected at the 2015 congress before the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, the process to found the IAAF was started at a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden on July 17,1912 soon after the completion of the 1912 Summer Olympics in that city. The congress that started on August 20,1913 in Berlin is when the foundation of the IAAF was formally completed, in 2015, a whistleblower leaked IAAFs blood test records from major competitions. After reviewing the results, Robin Parisotto, a scientist and leading anti-doping expert, said, so many athletes appear to have doped with impunity, and it is damning that the IAAF appears to have idly sat by and let this happen. Craig Reedie, president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said his organisation was very disturbed by these new allegations, which will, once again, shake the foundation of clean athletes worldwide, and that its independent commission will investigate the claims. On 1 November 2015, former IAAF president Lamine Diack was arrested in France and is under investigation on suspicion of corruption, Diack allegedly accepted $1.2 million from the Russian athletics federation to cover up the positive doping tests of at least six Russian athletes in 2011. The report continued that the IAAF allowed the conduct to occur and must accept its responsibility and that corruption was embedded in the organization. In January 2016, as a result of the scandal and WADAs report. The BBC reported that as a result the IAAF would lose $33 million worth of revenue, the 11-year sponsorship deal with Adidas was due to run until 2019. World-record holding sprinter, Michael Johnson, described the scandal as more serious than that faced by FIFA, in February,2016, Nestle announced that it was ending its IAAF sponsorship. In June 2016, following a meeting of the IAAFs ruling council, in Ferbuary 2017, All-Russia Athletic Federation disqualified by decision of the IAAF Council for 8 years for the creation of a doping system. Since the establishment of the IAAF, it has had six presidents, The IAAF has a total of 215 member federations divided into 6 area associations
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Secretariat Building, New Delhi
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The Secretariat Building or Central Secretariat is where the Cabinet Secretariat is housed, which administers the Government of India. Built in the 1910s, it is home to some of the most important ministries of the Cabinet of India. Situated on Raisina Hill, New Delhi, the Secretariat buildings are two blocks of buildings on opposite sides of the great axis of Rajpath, and flanking the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The planning of New Delhi began in earnest after Delhi was made capital of the British Indian Empire in 1911, Baker took on the design of the next most important building, the Secretariat, which was the only building other than Viceroys House to stand on Raisina Hill. To avoid this, Lutyens wanted the Secretariat to be of lower height than Viceroys House, but Baker wanted it of the same height, after the capital of India moved to Delhi, a temporary secretariat building was constructed in a few months in 1912 in North Delhi. Most of the government offices of the new capital moved here from the Old Secretariat in Old Delhi, many employees were brought into the new capital from distant parts of British India, including the Bengal Presidency and Madras Presidency. Subsequently housing for them was developed around Gole Market area, the Old Secretariat Building now houses the Delhi Legislative Assembly. The nearby Parliament House was built later, and hence was not constructed around the axis of Rajpath. Construction of Parliament House was begun in 1921, and the building was inaugurated in 1927, today, the area is served by the Central Secretariat station of the Delhi Metro. The Secretariat Building was designed by the prominent British architect Herbert Baker in Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture, both the identical building have four levels, each with about 1,000 rooms, in the inner courtyards to make space for future expansions. In continuation with the Viceroys House, these also used cream and red Dholpur sandstone from Rajasthan. Together the buildings were designed to form two squares and they have broad corridors between different wings and wide stairways to the four floors and each building is topped by a giant dome, while each wings end with colonnaded balcony. Much of the building is in architectural style, yet it incorporated from Mughal and Rajasthani architecture style. These are visible in the use of Jali, perforated screens, to protect from scorching sun and monsoon rains of India. Another feature of the building is a structure known as the Chatri. The style of architecture used in Secretariat Building is unique to Raisina Hill, in front of the main gates on buildings are the four dominion columns, given by Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. At the time of their unveiling in 1930, India was also supposed to become a British dominion soon, however, India became independent within the next 17 years and the Secretariat became the seat of power of a sovereign India. In the years to follow the building ran out of accommodation, the colour scheme is reversed while the roof of Union Building is covered with red tiles, in secretariat red sandstone is used in the ground floor walls only, the rest is the same pale sandstone
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2010 Commonwealth Games
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The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games, were held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010. A total of 6,081 athletes from 71 Commonwealth nations and dependencies competed in 21 sports and 272 events and it was also the largest international multi-sport event to be staged in Delhi and India, eclipsing the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. The opening and closing ceremonies were held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and it was the first time that the Commonwealth Games were held in India and the second time they were held in Asia after Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998. It was also the time a Commonwealth Republic hosted the games. The official mascot of the Games was Shera and the song of the Games. The President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, said that India had made a foundation for a future Olympics bid. Commonwealth games Federation chief Mike Fennell stated that Delhi delivered a fantastic Games, some observers accused sections of the media of bias, unfair expectations, and negative reporting. The final medal tally was led by Australia, the host nation India achieved its best performance ever at the Games, finishing second overall. This was Indias first successful bid for the Games, the bid was Canadas attempt to hold the games for the fifth time. Indias bid motto was New Frontiers and Friendships, the successful 2003 Afro-Asian Games held in Hyderabad was also seen as having shown that India has the resources, infrastructure and technical know-how to stage a big sporting event. Such actions are worthy of emulation by all concerned in Pakistan, I have no doubt that if both sides continue to live by such ideals, one day, sooner than later our generations to come will reap the benefits of and be grateful to those making such contributions. You would certainly be such person, the Indian government stated that it would underwrite the total cost of the Games. In spite of delays and the corruption cases levied on the organisors, commentators stated that they were confident that India will successfully host the games, the BCI was formed to both market the Games and promote Indian business interests internationally. The initial total budget estimated by the Indian Olympic Association in 2003 for hosting the Games was ₹16.2 billion, in 2010, however, the official total budget soon escalated to an estimated ₹115 billion, a figure which excluded non-sports-related infrastructure development. Business Today magazine estimated that the Games cost ₹700 billion, the 2010 Commonwealth Games are reportedly the most expensive Commonwealth Games ever. In response to concerns over the number of trains that pass by the Delhi metropolitan region daily. To expand road infrastructure, flyovers, cloverleaf flyovers, and bridges were built to improve links for the Games, road-widening projects were finished with an emphasis being placed on expanding national highways. To improve traffic flow on existing roads, plans were made to both the inner and outer Ring roads signal free
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Hutchison Essar
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It offers both prepaid and postpaid GSM cellular phone coverage throughout India with better presence in the metros. Vodafone India provides services on basis of 900 MHz and 1800 MHz digital GSM technology, Vodafone India launched 3G services in the country in the January–March quarter of 2011 and plans to spend up to $500 million within two years on its 3G networks. It has launched its 4G services in India starting from Kochi in Kerala in December 2015, in March 2017, it was announced that the company will merge with Idea in an all stock deal. The combined entity will be Indias largest telecommunication company, Hutchison Max Telecom Ltd. a joint venture between Hutchison Whampoa and the Max Group, was established on 21 February 1992. The licence to operate in Mumbai circle was awarded to Hutchison Max by the Department of Telecommunications in November 1994, the cellular service branded Max Touch was launched the same year. Hutchison Max entered into the Delhi telecom circle in December 1999, the Kolkata circle in July 2000, licences for these circles had initially been awarded by the DoT in 1994,1997 and 1995 respectively. Between 1992 and 2006, Hutchison acquired interests in all 23 mobile telecom circles of India, HMTL was renamed Hutchison Essar Limited in August 2005. In Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana, Essar Group was the major partner, but later Hutch took the majority stake. In 2006, it announced the acquisition of a company that held licence applications for the seven remaining licence areas, initially, the company grew its business in the largest wireless markets in India — in cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata. In these densely populated areas it was able to establish a robust network, well-known brand. Then it also targeted business users and high-end post-paid customers which helped Hutchison Essar to consistently generate a higher Average Revenue Per User than its competitors. By adopting this focused growth plan, it was able to establish leading positions in Indias largest markets providing the resources to expand its footprint nationwide.1 billion, Hutch was often praised for its award winning advertisements which all follow a clean, minimalist look. A recurrent theme is that its message Hi stands out visibly though it uses white letters on red background. Another successful ad campaign in 2003 featured a pug named Cheeka following a boy around in unlikely places, with the tagline, Wherever you go, the simple yet powerful advertisement campaigns won it many admirers. Advertisements featuring the pug were continued by Vodafone even after rebranding, the brand subsequently introduced ZooZoos which gained even higher popularity than was created by the Pug. Vodafones creative agency is O&M while Harit Nagpal was the Marketing Director during the phases of its brand evolution. In July 2011, Vodafone Group bought the mobile business of its partner Essar for $5.46 billion. This meant Vodafone owns 74% of Essar, the whole company was valued at USD18.8 billion
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Bharti Airtel
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Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian global telecommunications services company based in New Delhi, India. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, Airtel provides GSM, 3G and 4G LTE mobile services, fixed line broadband and voice services depending upon the country of operation. It is the largest mobile operator in India and the third largest in the world with 400 million subscribers. Airtel was named Indias second most valuable brand in the first ever Brandz ranking by Millward Brown, the strategy has since been adopted by several operators. Airtels equipment is provided and maintained by Ericsson and Nokia Solutions, the transmission towers are maintained by subsidiaries and joint venture companies of Bharti including Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers in India. Bharti Telecom Limited was incorporated and entered into a tie up with Siemens AG of Germany for manufacture of electronic push button phones. By the early 1990s, Bharti was making fax machines, cordless phones and he named his first push-button phones as Mitbrau. In 1992, he bid for one of the four mobile phone network licences auctioned in India. One of the conditions for the Delhi cellular license was that the bidder have some experience as a telecom operator, so, Mittal clinched a deal with the French telecom group Vivendi. He was one of the first Indian entrepreneurs to identify the mobile telecom business as a growth area. His plans were approved by the Government in 1994 and he launched services in Delhi in 1995. Within a few years Bharti became the first telecom company to cross the 2-million mobile subscriber mark, Bharti also brought down the STD/ISD cellular rates in India under brand name Indiaone. In 1999, Bharti Enterprises acquired control of JT Holdings, and extended operations to Karnataka. In 2000, Bharti acquired control of Skycell Communications, in Chennai, in 2001, the company acquired control of Spice Cell in Calcutta. Bharti Enterprises went public in 2002, and the company was listed on Bombay Stock Exchange, in 2003, the cellular phone operations were re-branded under the single Airtel brand. In 2004, Bharti acquired control of Hexacom and entered Rajasthan, in 2005, Bharti extended its network to Andaman and Nicobar. This expansion allowed it to offer voice services all across India, Airtel launched Hello Tunes, a Caller ring back tone service, in July 2004 becoming to the first operator in India to do so. The Airtel theme song, composed by A. R, Rahman, was the most popular tune on that year
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United States dollar
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The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution. It is divided into 100 smaller cent units, the circulating paper money consists of Federal Reserve Notes that are denominated in United States dollars. The U. S. dollar was originally commodity money of silver as enacted by the Coinage Act of 1792 which determined the dollar to be 371 4/16 grain pure or 416 grain standard silver, the currency most used in international transactions, it is the worlds primary reserve currency. Several countries use it as their currency, and in many others it is the de facto currency. Besides the United States, it is used as the sole currency in two British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean, the British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands. A few countries use the Federal Reserve Notes for paper money, while the country mints its own coins, or also accepts U. S. coins that can be used as payment in U. S. dollars. After Nixon shock of 1971, USD became fiat currency, Article I, Section 8 of the U. S. Constitution provides that the Congress has the power To coin money, laws implementing this power are currently codified at 31 U. S. C. Section 5112 prescribes the forms in which the United States dollars should be issued and these coins are both designated in Section 5112 as legal tender in payment of debts. The Sacagawea dollar is one example of the copper alloy dollar, the pure silver dollar is known as the American Silver Eagle. Section 5112 also provides for the minting and issuance of other coins and these other coins are more fully described in Coins of the United States dollar. The Constitution provides that a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and that provision of the Constitution is made specific by Section 331 of Title 31 of the United States Code. The sums of money reported in the Statements are currently being expressed in U. S. dollars, the U. S. dollar may therefore be described as the unit of account of the United States. The word dollar is one of the words in the first paragraph of Section 9 of Article I of the Constitution, there, dollars is a reference to the Spanish milled dollar, a coin that had a monetary value of 8 Spanish units of currency, or reales. In 1792 the U. S. Congress passed a Coinage Act, Section 20 of the act provided, That the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars, or units. And that all accounts in the offices and all proceedings in the courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation. In other words, this act designated the United States dollar as the unit of currency of the United States, unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U. S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the form is significantly more common
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Francis Kibiwott Larabal
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Francis Kibiwott Larabal is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes professionally in half marathon and marathon races. Kibiwott was unusual for a Kenyan runner in that he did not compete extensively in his youth and he began training in seriousness in his twenties, moving to Nyahururu. His first European races came at the 20 van Alphen, he was 13th in 2002 and he won the 2003 Dam tot Damloop held between Amsterdam and Zaandam, finished in second position in 2004, then won his second title in 2005. His time during his win was the worlds fastest time in a 10-mile race that year. The race was his first after a period of injuries. In 2006 he also managed to win the Delhi Half Marathon in a new course record and he won the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race, winning US$50,000 and breaking the course record by five minutes in the process. He also won the Route du Vin Half Marathon that year, in 2007 he was fourth at the RAK Half Marathon, then was runner-up at the Berlin Half Marathon. He competed at the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships in Udine, Italy, finishing 45th. He made a move up to the distance after that season and made his debut at the 2009 Paris Marathon. He improved his best to two hours and nine minutes at the JoongAng Seoul Marathon later that year, a time brought him his first win over the distance. He was ninth at the Paris race in 2010 and came fifth at the Madrid Marathon in 2011. His first outing of 2012 was at the Tiberias Marathon and he was just two seconds behind the winner Patrick Tambwe, ending the course as the runner-up with a record of 2,07,32 hours. He followed this with a record win in 2,09,05 hours at the Nagano Marathon. 2003 Dam tot Damloop 2006 Dam tot Damloop 2006 Delhi Half Marathon 2009 JoongAng Seoul Marathon 2012 Nagano Marathon Francis Kibiwott Larabal profile at IAAF
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Deriba Merga
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Deriba Merga Ejigu is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He mainly competes in the marathon and he finished fourth in that event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and went on to win the Boston Marathon the following year. His personal best for the distance is 2,06,38 hours and he also competes in half marathon races and his time of 59,14 minutes in 2008 was the fastest that year. He won the 2006 Paris Half Marathon and took the medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games a year later. He was born in the Welega Province west of Addis Ababa, Merga made his international debut in 2006, winning the Paris Half Marathon in a time of 60,45. Later that year, he finished sixth at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships, in December that year he won the Montferland Run 15 km race in a course record time of 42,48. He took the marathon gold medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games but just missed out on a medal at the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships. He made his debut at the Fukuoka Marathon in December 2007. He opened 2008 with a win at the Worlds Best 10K in Puerto Rico and he finished sixth at London in April that year, running a personal best of 2,06,38. In August, he finished fourth in the Olympic marathon, after being passed by teammate Tsegay Kebede in the final 400 m, later in the year he won the Delhi Half Marathon, and defended his title in 2009. In May 2009, he sped to victory at the World 10K Bangalore, Merga won the Chevron Houston Marathon in 2,07,52, setting a course record in the process. He was disappointed, however, having wanted to run a 2,05, three months later, Merga won the 113th Boston Marathon on April 20,2009, with a time of 2,08,42. Merga endured a very fast start and made a break for the finish. In May, he ran a 27,23 10k in Ottawa, Merga set his sights on defending his title at the 2010 Boston Marathon and upped the race tempo around the 18-mile mark. He moved away from the pack but was followed by Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot, Merga faded in the final stages and ended up in third place. He returned to defend his crown at the World 10K Bangalore in May, later that month he ran at the Ottawa 10K and was third in a time of 28,41, finishing behind the pacemaker, Lelisa Desessa, who continued for the victory. He set a record of 1,02,31 at the Bogota Half Marathon in August, easily seeing off the more favoured Zersenay Tadese. He entered the Chuncheon Marathon in October as the provisional favourite and he headed to the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon soon after and immediately assumed the lead in the race, running a world best for 8 km and winning the event in a time of 59,25 minutes
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Aselefech Mergia
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Aselefech Mergia Medessa is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in the marathon. She was a bronze medallist in the event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and she is a two-time winner of the Dubai Marathon and has finished in the top three at the Paris and London Marathons. She was retrospectively confirmed as the winner of the 2010 London Marathon after the top two were disqualified and her personal best of 2,19,31 hours is a former Ethiopian record for the distance and places her within the top ten of all-time. She began taking part in road races in 2006, starting with a seventh-place finish at the Delhi Half Marathon. She won the Plymouth Half Marathon in 2007, finishing with a time of 1,14,50 and she was second in the womens 10K in Glasgow, Scotland, finishing behind Vivian Cheruiyot but setting a personal best of 32,19 for the distance. At the 2008 World Cross Country Championships she finished sixteenth in the senior race, with five Ethiopian runners ahead of her she missed out for a place on the victorious Ethiopian team. That year she won the Delhi Half Marathon with a personal best run of 1,08,17 and she closed the year by winning a silver medal at the 2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. She made her debut in April 2009 at the Paris Marathon. She topped the podium at the World 10K Bangalore the following month, Mergia won the bronze medal in the womens marathon at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, recording a time of 2,25,32. Aselefech improved her half marathon personal best to 1,07,22 at the 2010 Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon, despite the fast time, this was only enough for third place behind Elvan Abeylegesse and Mare Dibaba. She returned to defend her Bangalore 10K title in May, but was beaten to the tape by compatriot Wude Ayalew and, finishing two seconds behind her, Mergia had to settle for the runner-up position. She came close to her personal best with a win at the 2011 Dubai Marathon, just missed the record mark. She was chosen for the Ethiopian marathon team at the 2011 World Championships and was in twelfth at the 40 km point of the race, in October she ran at the Great South Run and easily saw off a challenge from Doris Changeywo to win the 10-mile race. An attempt to defend her Delhi Half Marathon title ended in a third-place finish, in January 2015, Aselefech won the Dubai Marathon for the third time,2,20,02
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Mary Jepkosgei Keitany
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Mary Jepkosgei Keitany is a runner from Kenya who specialises in long distance running up to the marathon distance. She won silver at the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships and she won the 2012 London Marathon with a personal best of 2,18,37 hours – making her the second fastest woman ever in the event. Her personal best of 1,05,50 in the marathon is the former womens world record. She also held the record in the womens 10 miles,20 km. She started running while at primary school, in 2002, she joined the Hidden Talent Academy. In January 2006 she placed 21st in her first senior race at the Shoe4Africa womens race, after some success in local races, she competed abroad for the first time, winning some road races in Europe. She won a medal at the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships. She married fellow Kenyan athlete Charles Koech in late 2007 and the couple had a son, Jared Kipchumba, after her year out, she returned to competition at the World 10K Bangalore in May 2009. She finished one second behind the winner Aselefech Mergia, but set a new personal best of 32,09 in the 10 km. In September that year, she finished the 2009 Lille Half Marathon with 1,07,00, which was a winning mark and her run in Lille meant she had qualified for the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Birmingham. She outpaced Aberu Kebede to win her first World Championship, setting a new personal best of 1,06,36 and she also took a second gold as part of the winning Kenyan squad in the team competition. Reflecting on the win she noted its my best ever time, the half marathon time was a new African record, the previous record,1,06,44 hours, was set by Elana Meyer of South Africa in 1999. She also beat the previous Kenyan record 1,06,48 she had set in Udine two years earlier and she won the 2010 Abu Dhabi Half Marathon. She also won the 2010 Berlin 25K race, setting a new world record 1,19,53 hours, the previous record was held by Mizuki Noguchi of Japan since 2005. Her quick time left her almost five minutes ahead of the runner-up Alice Timbilili and she used the Portugal Half Marathon in September as preparation for the New York City Marathon and led from the front to win the race largely uncontested in a time of 1,08,46. In her debut run at the 2010 NYC Marathon she was among the three for much of the race but faded in the latter stages to complete the distance in 2,29,01 hours for third place. Keitany began 2011 in record-breaking form as she won the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon with a record time of 1,05,50. She then won the 2011 London Marathon in a time of 2,19,17, pulling away from the field at the 14-mile mark and becoming the fourth fastest woman ever over the marathon distance
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Geoffrey Mutai
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Geoffrey Kiprono Mutai is a Kenyan long distance runner who specialises in road running competitions. His other significant victories include the Monaco Marathon and he is also a strong half marathon runner, with wins at the Valencia Half Marathon and RAK Half Marathon, and a best of 58 minutes 58 seconds, to his name. Mutai started running in 1994 while at Tuiyotich Primary School in Nakuru and he graduated from primary school in 1998, but financial constraints prevented him from joining a secondary school. Instead, he worked in a farm, but continued his running career and he was selected to represent Kenya at the 2002 World Junior Championships, but could not make the trip as he had no birth certificate. Soon after he was injured and almost quit running and he later joined Kapngentuny Athletics Club in Eldoret. In 2007 he made his debut, finishing second in the inaugural Kass Marathon in Eldoret. At this race he met his current manager Gerard Van de Veen of Volare Sports and he won the 2008 Monaco Marathon, clocking a time of 2,12,40 to beat second-placed Jacob Kitur. He won the Loopfestijn Voorthuizen 10 km race in a record time of 28,05 that July. He made significant improvements at the Eindhoven Marathon, setting a new personal best of 2,07,50, which was a record and over a minute. Mutai opened 2009 with a win at the South Rift Valley 12 km championships and he signed up for the Seoul International Marathon, but was unable to finish the race. He ran at the Daegu Marathon a month later and finished overall with a time of 2,10,45. He returned to the Loopfestijn Voorthuizen race a few months later and improved upon his previous course record and he had a second consecutive victory at the Eindhoven Marathon, further improving the course mark and his personal best to 2,07,01. He won the Valencia Half Marathon in late 2009, seeing off the challenge from pre-race favourite Boniface Kirui, the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon was Mutais first major race of 2010, and he beat Tadese Tola to the finish line. Although his time of 59,43 was quick, it seemed a relatively modest achievement given the tactical running and he took on the Worlds Best 10K in Puerto Rico a few weeks later, but Moses Masai and Sammy Kitwara pushed him into third place. Mutai ran one of the fastest marathons ever at the Rotterdam Marathon in April, however, Patrick Makau ran even faster and Mutai had to settle for second place. He took to the track in the summer and set a 10,000 m personal best of 27,27,59 for second place at the Kenyan Championships behind Wilson Kiprop. This earned him selection for the 2010 African Athletics Championships and he won the bronze medal. He was pitted against his Rotterdam rival Makau at the Berlin Marathon and he came close to a personal best at the Delhi Half Marathon and won the race by out-kicking Lelisa Desisa
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Lelisa Desisa
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Lelisa Desisa Benti is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who specialises in road running competitions. He gained his first international medal at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships and he engaged Wilson Kiprop in a sprint finish at the Paris Half Marathon two months later, ending up in second place. He took to the United States road circuit and was sixth at the Crescent City Classic before taking the spot at the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run behind Stephen Tum. He won the Ottawa 10K in May and led an Ethiopian podium sweep with a win at the Bolder Boulder two days later. That July, he came third in a sprint for the line at the Peachtree Road Race and he received his first senior international call-up for the 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. He came seventh overall, recording a time of 1,01,28 alongside his compatriot Birhanu Bekele to secure the bronze medal for the Ethiopians. He set a new marathon best in November at the Delhi Half Marathon. He came close to a personal best at the Worlds Best 10K in February 2011, taking third place in a time of 28,02 minutes. This served as preparation for the City-Pier-City Loop in March, where he came out on top in a sprint finish to record a personal best of 59,37 minutes for the half marathon. In a two-day period he won the Cooper River Bridge Run and then broke the record at the Cherry Blossom 10-Miler. That June he reached the podium at the World 10K Bangalore and he was not selected for the World Championships that year, but instead won the half marathon at the 2011 All-Africa Games held that same month. In November he returned to Delhi and ran a best of 59,30 minutes to win the marathon race. In June 2012 he ran a personal best of 27,18.17 minutes to win the 10,000 metres in Liège and he was selected as an Olympic squad reserve as a result. A5000 metres best of 13,22.91 minutes came in June and he tried to defend his title at the Delhi Half Marathon but managed only seventh place. In his debut over the distance, he made one of the fastest ever debuts by winning the 2013 Dubai Marathon in a time of 2,04,45 hours. He was surprised by the time and said he would like to make a world record attempt in the future. Three months later, in the 2013 Boston Marathon, he took the victory in a time of 2,10,22, Desisa was not hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing that occurred after his victory. Desisa later, in a widely acclaimed gesture, returned his 2013 Boston Marathon winner medal back to the city, Desisa won the 2015 Boston Marathon on April 20,2015 with a time of 2,09,17
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Lucy Wangui Kabuu
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Lucy Wangui Kabuu is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 and 10,000 metres events. She has represented Kenya twice at the Summer Olympics, finishing in the top ten of the 10,000 m race in both 2004 and 2008. Her personal bests of 14,33.49 minutes for the 5000 m and 30,39.96 minutes for the 10,000 m make her one of Kenyas fastest ever runners in the events and she was based in Japan for her early career. Internationally, she was a silver medallist at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 2005 and was a double long-distance medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Since 2011 she has competed on the road and has won at the Great North Run and she made her marathon debut in 2012 and became the eighth fastest woman ever with a time of 2,19,34 hours for second place at the Dubai Marathon. She was born in 1984 in Ichamara in the Mukurweini/Nyeri region of central Kenya and her potential for long-distance running was identified when she was at primary school. John Kanyi, a runner who was based in Japan, encouraged her to try for an athletic scholarship to enable her to study. She performed well in the selection races and, aged sixteen. While in Japan, she won the 1500 metres at the school championships and, after graduation in 2002, she commenced training with the Suzuki Track. She signed with PACE Sports Management and is coached by Ricky Simms, Wangui set a Kenyan junior record for the 10,000 m in September 2003. She won the All-Japan Corporate Half Marathon title in Yamaguchi the following March and she came first in the 5000 metres at the 2004 Japanese Athletics Championships, competing as a guest. Following this she was the runner-up in the Kenyan Olympic trials over 10,000 m and her first major international appearance came at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where she finished ninth in the 10,000 metres event. She ran over that distance at the Hyogo Relays meet and had three wins from 2005 to 2007. She finished tenth in 5000 metres at the 2005 World Athletics Final, in March 2006 she won the womens 10,000 metres event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a time of 31 minutes,29.66 seconds. She also finished third in the 5000 metres, towards the end of the season she finished tenth in 3000 metres at the World Athletics Final. In November she was selected for the Kenyan womens team at the International Chiba Ekiden and she was slower than Maria Konovalova on the final leg, but maintained Kenyas lead to win the womens title. The teams time of 2,13,35 hours was later ratified as an African record for the marathon relay. Wangui began her 2008 season with a win at the Chiba International Cross Country, at the 2008 African Championships in Athletics she finished fourth in 10,000 m behind a trio of Ethiopians led by Tirunesh Dibaba
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Edwin Kipyego
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Edwin Kipyego is a Kenyan long-distance runner, best known for a series of victories, at the half marathon and 10K distances, in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. His personal best for the marathon is 60,05 minutes. He first began to compete in European road races in 2009, having chosen to focus on the half marathon distance, he had his first road race victories in 2010. He won the Reading and Bristol Half Marathons and was runner-up in Cardiff, moving on from his United Kingdom base, he won the 2011 Ribarroja Del Turia Half Marathon with a personal best of 61,23 minutes. He came close to that mark at the Nice Half Marathon and was seventh at the Lille Half Marathon, in his eighth half marathon outing of the year, he retained his title in Bristol in September. He suffered an injury in October, but on his return in January 2012 he caused an upset at the Kenyan Discovery Half Marathon, beating Emmanuel Mutai and James Kwambai. He improved his best to 61,11 minutes with a performance at the Lago Maggiore Half Marathon in Italy then had his second career victory at the Reading Half Marathon. Kipyego incorporated 10K races into his schedule the following year and it proved to be a successful move and he won the British 10K London with a time of 27,49 minutes – making him the twelfth fastest in the world that year. Kipyego ran a personal best of one hour five seconds to win the CPC Loop Den Haag in March 2013
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Florence Kiplagat
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Florence Jebet Kiplagat is a Kenyan long-distance runner. She is a world champion, having won at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She was the record holder for the womens half marathon with a time of 1,05,09 hours until it was broken by Peres Kipchirchir on February 10,2017 at the RAK Half Marathon. She has also represented Kenya on the track, having won the silver medal over 5000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, Kiplagat studied at the Sirgoech Secondary School in Iten and she hoped to get a scholarship in the United States. She failed to get a scholarship, but had a start for her running career. She won the medal in 5000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships. At the 2007 World Cross Country Championships she finished fifth in the senior race and she was out of activity in 2008 after becoming a mother. After the motherhood, she started the collaboration with the Italian Coach Renato Canova and she made comeback in early 2009 by winning the Elgoibar Cross Country and Cross Internacional de Itálica meetings in Spain. She won the race at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships ahead of compatriot Linet Masai. She became the second Kenyan to win the race at the World Cross Country Championships, the first one was Hellen Chepngeno. On 14 June 2009 she finished 2nd in the 10,000 m race in Utrecht, kiplagats time,30,11.53 was a Kenyan record. The previous national record, was set by Linet Masai at the 2008 Olympics, florence Kiplagat did not defend her world cross-country title in 2010, as she was recovering from an injury. She made her debut over the marathon distance in September 2010 and managed to win first time. She also led Kenya to another team title alongside Arusei. She ran in the 15K race at the Zevenheuvelenloop and was runner-up to Genet Getaneh and she was the favourite for the 2012 Egmond Half Marathon, but finished as runner-up behind Meseret Hailu. She moved up to third on the lists with a winning run of 1,06,38 hours at the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon. She turned to the 10,000 m at the Prefontaine Classic and she failed to make the Olympic team in the event, however, narrowly finishing fourth at the Kenyan trial race. She missed the rest of 2012, but returned at the RAK Half Marathon in February the next year and had her second fastest ever result, although the depth of the race left her in fifth
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Eliud Kipchoge
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Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long distance runner who has won medals at the Olympic and World level. An Olympic 5000 m bronze for Kenya followed at the 2004 Athens Olympics, a series of silver medals came, starting at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics before another runner-up placing at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was fifth at the 2009 World Championships but again reached the podium at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and he has won four medals at editions of the annual IAAF World Athletics Final and is a five-time 5000 m finalist at the World Championships. His 3000 metres best of 7,27.66 ranks him as the 12th fastest at the distance ever and his 5000 m best of 12,46.53 makes him the fourth fastest ever in the event. He began to move towards road running in 2012 and set a marathon best of 59,25 minutes - which is the 3rd fastest debut half marathon in history. He then won the 2013 Hamburg Marathon with a very fast finishing time of 2,05,30 and he improved on this later that year, at the Berlin Marathon, running 2,04,05, the fifth-fastest marathon in history at the time. He won the London Marathon in 2015 and he also won the Berlin Marathon in 2015 in 2,04,00, improving his personal best by 5 seconds. In 2016, he improved on this personal best again, achieving a time of 2,03,05 at the London Marathon. He is currently the 3rd fastest Marathon runner ever behind Dennis Kimetto, Kipchoge graduated from Kaptel Secondary School in 1999 but did not run seriously then. In 2002, he won at the Kenyan trials for the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships junior race, at the World Cross Country Championships, held in Dublin, Kipchoge finished fifth in the individual race and was part on the Kenyan junior team that won gold. Kipchoge also won the 5000 metres race at the Kenyan trial for the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics, at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships he won the junior race. Kipchoge won a medal at the 5000 m final at the 2003 World Championships. Kipchoge later won a medal at the 5000 m final at the 2004 Athens Olympics, behind El Guerrouj. He also won the Trofeo Alasport cross country race earlier that season, Kipchoge won the bronze in the 3000 metres indoor at the 2006 World Championships in Moscow. At the end of the year, he ran at the San Silvestre Vallecana New Years Eve 10 km road race and this was better than the world record, but the time was assisted by the downhill course. Kipchoge won a medal at the 5000 m final of the 2007 World Championships at Osaka in 13,46.00. He failed to reach the podium at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, finishing in fifth place, on the circuit, he won the Great Yorkshire Run 10K and Campaccio Cross Country that year. During the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Kipchoge won a medal in the marathon
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Almaz Ayana
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Almaz Ayana Eba is an Ethiopian female long-distance runner who competes in the 3000 metres,5000 metres, and 10,000 metres events. She set a new 10,000 metres world record, breaking the one set in 1993. Almaz won bronze medal in 5000 m event at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics held in Moscow, in the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing, she won the 5000 m course beating Genzebe Dibaba by a long distance. Almaz won her first senior title over 5000 metres at the 2014 African Championships in Marrakech, one month later in the same stadium, she won the 5000 m representing Africa at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup by over 24 seconds. Almaz ran a personal best of 14,14.32 over 5000 metres at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Shanghai in 2015 and this made her the third fastest female athlete over that distance, behind compatriots Tirunesh Dibaba, the world record holder, and Meseret Defar. On June 2,2016, Almaz Ayana ran 5000 metres in 14,12.59 at IAAF Golden Gala in Rome. This made Almaz the second fastest woman ever on 5000 metres, second only to Tirunesh Dibaba, Almaz stopped the clock at 29,17.45. Already a world champion in 5000 m, this was the first time she had attempted to run the distance at a major event. She had run the distance competitively just once before, when she beat Tirunesh in the Ethiopian Olympic trials in June with the fastest ever debut of 30,07, multiple national records were set, and eighteen competitors set personal bests. British commentators Brendan Foster and Paula Radcliffe, both former world-record holders in distance events, expressed scepticism about Almazs performance, fellow competitors were also concerned, they reported that, before the race, the Ethiopian was coughing and did not seem well. In her post-race press conference, Almaz said her time was purely an outcome of hard training, Official Twitter profile Official Facebook page Almaz Ayana profile at IAAF Diamond league profile
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Star Sports
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Star Sports is a group of Indian sports channels owned by Star India—a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox division STAR TV. The website follows a freemium service model wherein it offers free as well as premium content, other than what Star Sports broadcasts, it also webcasts the Indian Premier League and other tournaments played in India, domestic as well as international. Star Sports Network Fox Sports Asia ESPN Asia Hotstar Star Sports ESPN India
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Maruti Suzuki
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Maruti Suzuki India Limited, formerly known as Maruti Udyog Limited, is an automobile manufacturer in India. It is a 54. 2%-owned subsidiary of Japanese automobile and motorcycle manufacturer Suzuki Motor Corporation, as of January 2017, it had a market share of 51% of the Indian passenger car market. Maruti Suzuki manufactures and sells popular cars such as the Ciaz, Ertiga, Wagon R, Alto, Swift, Celerio, Swift Dzire, the company is headquartered at New Delhi. In February 2012, the company sold its ten millionth vehicle in India, Maruti was established in February 1981, though the actual production commenced only in 1983. It started with the Maruti 800, based on the Suzuki Alto kei car which at the time was the modern car available in India. Its only competitors were the Hindustan Ambassador and Premier Padmini, originally, 74% of the company was owned by the Indian government, and 26% by Suzuki of Japan. As of May 2007, the government of India sold its share to Indian financial institutions. Under the Maruti name In 1970, a limited company named Surya Ram Maruti technical services private limited was launched on November 16,1970. The stated purpose of company was to provide technical know-how for the design, manufacture. In June 1971, a company called Maruti limited was incorporated under the Companies Act, Maruti Limited went into liquidation in 1977. Maruti Udyog Ltd was incorporated through the efforts of Dr V. Krishnamurthy, affiliation with Suzuki In 1982, a license & Joint Venture Agreement was signed between Maruti Udyog Ltd. and Suzuki of Japan. At first, Maruti Suzuki was mainly an importer of cars, in Indias closed market, Maruti received the right to import 40,000 fully built-up Suzukis in the first two years, and even after that the early goal was to use only 33% indigenous parts. This upset the local manufacturers considerably, finally, in 1983, the Maruti 800 was released. This 796 cc hatchback was based on the SS80 Suzuki Alto and was India’s first affordable car, initial product plan was 40% saloons, and 60% Maruti Van. Local production commenced in December 1983, in 1984, the Maruti Van with the same three-cylinder engine as the 800 was released and the installed capacity of the plant in Gurgaon reached 40,000 units. In 1985, the Suzuki SJ410-based Gypsy, a 970 cc 4WD off-road vehicle, was launched, in 1986, the original 800 was replaced by an all-new model of the 796 cc hatchback Suzuki Alto and the 100, 000th vehicle was produced by the company. In 1987, the company started exporting to the West, when a lot of 500 cars were sent to Hungary, by 1988, the capacity of the Gurgaon plant was increased to 100,000 units per annum. Market liberalisation In 1989, the Maruti 1000 was introduced and the 970 cc, by 1991,65 percent of the components, for all vehicles produced, were indigenized
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Jabong.com
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Jabong. com is an Indian fashion and lifestyle e-commerce portal founded by Praveen Sinha, Lakshmi Potluri, Arun Chandra Mohan. The portal sells apparel, footwear, fashion accessories, beauty products, fragrances, home accessories and other fashion, the companys headquarter is in Gurgaon, NCR. In July,2016 Flipkart acquired Jabong through its unit Myntra for about $70 Million, after the acquisition, Ananth Narayanan was declared the new CEO of Jabong. It was co-founded by Arun Chandra Mohan, Praveen Sinha, Lakshmi Potluri, all co-founders have left the company. In March 2013, Jabong was shipping 6000-7000 orders a day, according to The Economist, Jabong clocked gross sales of around US $100–150 mn in 2012. As per the Livemint article, during September 2013 Jabong was shipping 14,000 orders on a daily basis out of which 60% were from small towns, Jabong sells shoes, apparel, accessories, home décor and furniture through its website. The e-store at present carries over 1000 brands and over 90,000 products, other products include jewellery and gold coins. In January 2014, Jabong partnered with Stylista, a collaborative fashion platform, the collection includes Indian designers like Wendell Rodricks, Priyadarshini Rao and Nishka Lulla. Jabong. com follows both a model and a managed marketplace model. In the inventory model, products are sourced from brands and stored in the Jabong warehouse, in the managed marketplace model, Jabong provides marketing, logistics and delivery. The company has been active on digital media, giving competition to established competitors in a span of time. The company launched its first TV campaign in March 2012, other television campaigns appeared in September 2012 and during 2013 Jabong. In November 2013 Jabong together with Puma launched the digital fitness campaign “Gear up Buddy” with Bollywood actor Chitrangada Singh. In a bid to position itself as a fashion destination, Jabong has partnered with Lakme Fashion Week for next four seasons. Jabong. com launched the India Online Fashion Week in 2014, the event was described as a platform for young and aspiring designers, stylists, models and photographers who were mentored by fashion industry experts including celebrity mentor Yami Gautam. Jabong. com launched a fashion magazine The Juice in April,2014. Jabong showcased the fashion used in the movie by the movie stars. In its third association with Bollywood, Jabong presented in December 2013 a collection of inspired by the movie Dhoom 3, including bags, hats, pendants
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Puma (brand)
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PUMA SE, branded as PUMA, is a German multinational company that designs and manufactures athletic and casual footwear, apparel and accessories, headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany. The company was founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler, in 1924, Rudolf and his brother Adolf Dassler had jointly formed the company Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik. The relationship between the two brothers deteriorated until the two agreed to split in 1948, forming two separate entities, Adidas and PUMA, both companies are currently based in Herzogenaurach, Germany. PUMA has been a company since 1986, listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Since 2007 PUMA has been part of French group Kering, since 1 July 2013, the company has been led by former football professional Bjørn Gulden. As of 2016, PUMA SE employs more than 10,000 people worldwide, following the split from his brother, Rudolf Dassler originally registered the new-established company as Ruda, but later changed the name to PUMA. PUMAs earliest logo consisted of a square and beast jumping through a D, PUMAs shoe and clothing designs feature the PUMA logo and the distinctive Formstrip which was introduced in 1958. PUMA offers products for Football, Running, Training and Fitness, Golf, Motorsports, currently, international footballers Sergio Agüero, Antoine Griezmann, Marco Verratti, Yaya Touré, Olivier Giroud, Gianluigi Buffon and Marco Reus are sporting PUMA football boots. It also has the world’s fastest man and Jamaican track athlete Usain Bolt under contract, in terms of football clubs, PUMA sponsors Arsenal FC and Borussia Dortmund. National football teams Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Uruguay, in Track & Field, PUMA sponsors the Jamaican, Cuban, and Barbados Athletic Associations. In order to support its women’s business, PUMA endorses fashion icons Rihanna, in December 2014, Rihanna was also named Creative Director, overseeing direction of the womenswear line in December 2014. In 2015, Puma has also named the Korean boy group, BTS, the group has shot several commercials, advertising shoes and clothing for the company. After leaving school their son, Rudolf Dassler, joined his father at the shoe factory, when he returned from fighting in World War I, Rudolf was trained as a salesman at a porcelain factory, and later in a leather trading business in Nuremberg. In 1924, Rudolf and his brother, Adolf, nicknamed Adi. They named the new business Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik which was the business at the time that manufactured sports shoes. The pair started their venture in their mothers laundry, at the time, electricity supplies in the town were unreliable, and the brothers sometimes had to use pedal power from a stationary bicycle to run their equipment. In 1927, they moved into a separate building, business boomed, the Dasslers were selling 200,000 pairs of shoes annually before World War II. Both brothers joined the Nazi Party, but Rudolf was slightly closer to the party, a growing rift between the brothers reached a breaking point during a 1943 Allied bomb attack
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Seiko
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The company was founded in 1881, when Kintarō Hattori opened a watch and jewelry shop called K. Hattori in the Ginza area of Tokyo, Japan. Eleven years later, in 1892, he began to produce clocks under the name Seikosha, according to Seikos official company history, titled A Journey In Time, The Remarkable Story of Seiko, Seiko is a Japanese word meaning exquisite or success. The first watches produced under the Seiko brand appeared in 1924, in 1969, Seiko introduced the Astron, the worlds first production quartz watch, when it was introduced, it cost the same as a medium-sized car. Seiko later went on to introduce the first quartz chronograph, in the late 1980s, Seiko produced the first Kinetic watch that combined the self-energizing attributes of an automatic watch with quartz accuracy. The watch is powered by its movement in everyday wear. In 1985, Orient and Seiko established a joint factory, the company was incorporated in 1917 and was renamed Hattori Seiko Co. Ltd. in 1983 and Seiko Corporation in 1990. After reconstructing and creating its operating subsidiaries, it became a company in 2001 and was renamed Seiko Holdings Corporation as of July 1,2007. Seiko is perhaps best known for its wristwatches, all of which were at one time produced entirely in-house, Seiko watches were originally produced by two different subsidiaries. One was Diani Seikosha Co. and the other was Suwa Seikosha Co, having two companies both producing the same brand of watch enabled Seiko to improve technology through competition and hedge risk. It also reduced risk of problems, since one company can increase production in the case of decreased production in the other party. Currently watch movements are made in Shizukuishi, Iwate, Ninohe, Iwate, Shiojiri, Nagano and their subsidiaries in China, Malaysia, the fully integrated in-house production system is still practised for luxury watches in Japan. Seiko produces watches with quartz, kinetic, solar, and mechanical watches of varying prices, to separate the customer groups, Seiko has created many different brands in Japan and the international market. Seiko has several such as the Seiko 5 series, and the luxury Credor, King Seiko. At the time, Suwa Seikosha Co. was in charge of manufacturing mens watch, the first Grand Seiko was released in 1960, it was based on Seikos previous high-end watch, CROWN. This Grand Seiko has a 25-jewel, manual-winding,3180 calibre and this was also the first Chronometer grade watch manufactured in Japan, and it was based on Seikos own chronometer standard. The design language of the Grand Seiko was set in 1967, the 44GS set the ground for all future Grand Seiko with nine elements. The 61GS was Japans first automatic 10 beat watch, and it was the most accurate mechanical watch due to the high beat calibers, in 2009, Seiko released the new 10 beat caliber 9S85, which is a completely new designed of the previous high beat caliber. The new caliber also met the Grand Seiko Standard, a certification that is more strict than the Chronometer Certificate in Switzerland
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Max Healthcare
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Max Healthcare Institute is a healthcare institute based in New Delhi, India. The Institute is an owned subsidiary company of Max India Limited. Established in 1985, Max India Limited is a Public Limited company listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange, the institute operates eleven centers in Delhi, NCR and neighbouring Punjab region, providing health care services in more than 30 disciplines. Max India Limited was founded in 1985, the first Max healthcare centre was opened as Max Multi Speciality Centre in Panchsheel Park, New Delhi with OPD facilities and day care surgeries in 2000. In 2002, Max Hospital was opened, dedicated to mother and child care, Max Hospital, Noida was opened in 2002 with services including non-invasive cardiology, orthopedics, ENT, ophthalmology, nephrology etc. Max Heart and Vascular Institute was established in 2004 with advanced life support. Max Hospital in Patparganj was founded in 2005, in the same year, Max Eye and Dental Care centre was opened at Panchsheel Park, New Delhi. Max Super Specialty Hospital in Saket was founded in 2006 and Max Hospital and he is the recipient of the Padma Bhushan Award. He has also taken on the role of the Chairman of the Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology. In addition, he is the Chairman, Board of Governors, The Doon School, Dehradun. Analjit Singh is an alumnus of Doon School, Dehradun, Shriram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, School of Management, Max Heart and Vascular Institute is a 220-bed cardiovascular facility located at Saket, in South Delhi. This institute was opened in 2001, Max Institute of Neuro Sciences is fitted with Novalis Tx, Rapid ARC, PET CT and Brachytherapy. The procedures performed here include Spine Surgery, Brain tumour surgery, Disk replacement surgery, Endovascular Neurosurgery, Max Institute of Orthopaedics & Joint Replacement Surgery is a tertiary care centre located in South Delhi. This is the first institute in India to get this award, Max Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has been established to provide healthcare to women. The team of experts contains gynaecologists, sonologists, radiologists, Max Institute of Aesthetic & Reconstructive Surgery is located in Saket and equipped with the Delhis first ever VASER Lipo Technology. The list of services available here in the field of Aesthetic Surgery include Facelift, Rhinoplasty, Breast Augmentation, Vaser Liposelection, Breast Reduction, Abdominoplasty. It also offers Opd procedures like Botox & Fillers, cancer Reconstruction is its forte especially Head & Neck Reconstruction and Breast Reconstruction. Max Eye Care is a centre for eye surgery in Panchsheel Park, bureau Veritas, a European Standards organisation awarded the cGreen OT certification to Max Healthcare
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The Times of India
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The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is the fourth-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the according to Audit Bureau of Circulations. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation, in 1991, the BBC ranked The Times of India among the worlds six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In 2014 however, The Times of India was ranked 174th among Indias most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, the Times of India issued its first edition 3 November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. In 1850, it began to publish daily editions, in 1860, editor Robert Knight bought the Indian shareholders interests, merged with rival Bombay Standard, and started Indias first news agency. It wired Times dispatches to papers across the country and became the Indian agent for Reuters news service, in 1861, he changed the name from the Bombay Times and Standard to The Times of India. In the 19th century, this company employed more than 800 people and had a sizeable circulation in India. In 1946, Bennett Coleman & Co, Ltd was sold to sugar magnate Ramkrishna Dalmia of the then-famous industrial family, the Dalmiyas, for Rs 20 million, as India was becoming independent and the British owners were leaving. In the court case followed, Ramkrishna Dalmia was sentenced to two years in Tihar Jail after having been convicted of embezzlement and fraud. But for most of the term he managed to spend in hospital. Upon his release, his son-in-law, Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, to whom he had entrusted the running of Bennett, in the early 1960s, Shanti Prasad Jain was imprisoned on charges of selling newsprint on the black market. Based on the pleading, Justice directed the Government to assume control of the newspaper which resulted in replacing half of the directors, curiously, the court appointed D K Kunte as Chairman of the Board. Kunte had no business experience and was also an Opposition member of the Lok Sabha. In 1976, during the Emergency in India, the Government transferred ownership of the back to Ashok Kumar Jain. The move was a critique of Prime Minister Indira Gandhis 21-month state of emergency, in late 2006, Times Group acquired Vijayanand Printers Limited. VPL previously published two Kannada newspapers, Vijay Karnataka and Usha Kiran, and an English daily, Vijay Times, Vijay Karnataka was the leader in the Kannada newspaper segment then. The paper launched a Chennai edition,12 April 2008 and it launched a Kolhapur edition, February 2013
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Radio Mirchi
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Radio Mirchi is a nationwide network of private FM radio stations in India. It is owned by the Entertainment Network India Ltd, which is one of the subsidiaries of The Times Group, Mirchi is Hindi for Red Chilli. The tagline of Radio Mirchi is Its hot, Radio Mirchi maintains weekly music charts for India. The most followed charts are Mirchi Top 20 and Angrezi Top 20, both of these charts are a ranking of recorded music according to popularity. These charts are published on a basis in the Indian English-language daily newspaper, The Times of India. Radio Mirchi began operations in 1993 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, until 1993, All India Radio or AIR, a government undertaking, was the only radio broadcaster in India. The government then took the initiative to privatize the radio broadcasting sector and it sold airtime blocks on its FM channels in Indore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam and Goa to private operators, who developed their own program content. The Times Group operated its brand, Times FM, till June 1998, after that, the government decided not to renew contracts given to private operators. In 2000, the government announced the auction of 108 FM frequencies across India and this pushes the Radio Mirchi presence in 32 centres. This pushes Radio Mirchi presence in 49 centres, Radio Mirchi started operations across UAE, streaming across three frequencies,97. 3FM in Abu Dhabi,88. 8FM in Dubai and the Northern Emirates and 95. 6FM in Al Ain. All the RJs have been recruited from various Radio Mirchi stations in India including Praveen Nair, Currently, Radio Mirchi has a presence in 38 cities. Radio Mirchi operates in the cities, Ahmedabad Aurangabad Allahabad - On AIR since 14 July 2010 Bengaluru -18 April 2006 Sakkath Hot Maga. Bhopal Delhi Goa Guwahati Gwalior - Gwalior Jhoome Indore - The first city of broadcasting, jabalpur Jaipur Jalandhar Kanpur Kochi - On air since 18 April 2016, Sangathi hot aanu. Kolhapur Kolkata Lucknow - On AIR since 14 August 2007 Chennai - Idhu semmma hot machchi, madurai - On AIR since September 2007, Idhu semmma hot machchi. Coimbatore - On AIR since November 2007, Idhu semmma hot machchi, Mangaluru - On AIR since November 2007, Sakkath hot magga. Mumbai Nasik - On AIR since 6 July 2007 Nagpur - On AIR since 18 October 2007. Patna - On AIR since 2 April 2007 Raipur Rajkot - On AIR since 13 June 2007 Siliguri Surat - On AIR since 20 August 2007 Thiruvananthapuram- On AIR since 28 January 2008, ujjain Vadodara Varanasi Faizabad Hyderabad Idi chaala hot guru. Vijayawada - On AIR since December 2008, Idi chaala hot guru, Visakhapatnam - On AIR since October 2006, Idi chaala hot guru
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Government of Delhi
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The Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the governing authority of the Indian national capital territory of Delhi and its 11 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, a judiciary, the present Legislative Assembly of Delhi is unicameral, consisting of 70 Members of the Legislative Assembly. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi handles civic administration for the city as part of the Panchayati Raj Act, New Delhi, an urban area in Delhi, is the seat of both the State Government of Delhi and the Government of India. The National Capital Territory of Delhi has three municipal corporations namely, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Council and Delhi Cantonment Board. The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi is appointed by the President of India, as agent of President and not head of state like governor, on the advice of the Central government. The Delhi High Court has jurisdiction over Delhi, which also has two courts, the Small Causes Court for civil cases, and the Sessions Court for criminal cases. Unlike other states in India, the Delhi Police reports to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, headed by the Police Commissioner, it is one of the largest metropolitan police forces in the world. The headquarters of Delhi Police are located at ITO, the Legislative Assembly of Delhi was first constituted on 17 March 1952 under the Government of Part C States Act,1951, but it was abolished on 1 October 1956. The first Chief minister of Delhi was Ch. Braham Prakash, as per article 239AA of Indian Constitution, number of Cabinet Ministers cannot exceed ten percent of Delhi assembly seats
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Athletics Federation of India
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The Athletics Federation of India is the apex body in Athletics in India and is responsible for conducting Competitions in the country. It was earlier called as Amateur Athletic Federation of India and it is associated with both Asian Athletics Association and International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics Federation of India, then Amateur Athletic Federation of India, was formed in 1946 at the initiative of Prof, G. D. Sondhi and Maharaja Yadvindra Singh. G. D. Sondhi was its first President for a short while, the Competitions, conducted by the AFI, are divided in three categories “I”, “II” & “III”. Category I is solely conducted by AFI where as Category II includes all those Competitions, for which AFI grant permission to any other party, Category III consists of competitions conducted by AFI but not on regular basis
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Hindustan Times
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Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period. The newspaper is owned by Rajya Sabha M. P. Shobhana Bhartia and it is the flagship publication of HT Media. Hindustan Times is one of the largest newspapers in India, by circulation, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.16 million copies as of November 2015. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that HT is the second most widely read English newspaper in India after The Times of India. It is popular in North India, with editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Bhopal. The print location of Jaipur was discontinued from June 2006 and that of Nagpur edition was discontinued from September 1997, HT launched a youth daily, HT Next, in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14 July 2005 and the Kolkata edition was launched in early 2000. In 2014 however, Hindustan Times was ranked 360th among Indias most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory, other sister publications of Hindustan Times are Mint, Hindustan, Nandan and Kadambani. Hindustan Times is owned by the KK Birla branch of the Birla family, Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab Province. S Mangal Singh Gill and S. Chanchal Singh were made in charge of the newspaper, Madan Mohan Malaviya and Tara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, K. M. Panikkar was its first editor, Devdas Gandhi on the editors panel, and later editor. The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on 26 September 1924, the first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi. As an Oxonian, historian, and litterateur, Panikkar must have hoped to make his paper eventually more than an Akali sheet and he became the editor and funds flowed freely from activist Akali patrons. He exerted himself strenuously, but the paper made very little headway, in two years Panikkar could not take the print order any higher than 3,000. By then the Akali movement appeared to lose steam and funds dried up, the paper was saved from an untimely demise when Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya stepped in to realise his vision of a newspaper in Delhi. Malaviya raised ₹50,000 rupees to acquire the Hindustan Times along with the help of nationalist leaders Lajpat Rai and M. R. Jayakar and industrialist G. D. Birla, Birla took full control of the paper in 1933. The paper continues to be owned by the Birla family and it has its roots in the Indian independence movement of the first half of the twentieth century and even faced the noted Hindustan Times Contempt Case at Allahabad High Court. It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi, Sri Mulgaonkar, B. G. Verghese, sanjoy Narayan was editor in chief of the paper from August 2008 till July 2016
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MSN
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MSN is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24,1995, the same release date as Windows 95. Along with Windows 95s release, Microsoft debuted The Microsoft Network, at the same time, the company launched a new web portal named Microsoft Internet Start and set it as the first default home page of Internet Explorer, its original web browser. In 1998, Microsoft renamed and moved this web portal to the domain name MSN. com, the current website and suite of apps offered by MSN was first introduced by Microsoft in 2014 as part of a complete redesign and relaunch. MSN is based in the United States and offers international versions of its portal for dozens of countries around the world, from 1995 to 1998, the MSN. com domain was used by Microsoft primarily to promote MSN as an online service and Internet service provider. At the time, MSN. com also offered a start page and an Internet tutorial. Microsofts original news website, msnbc. com, which launched in 1996, was tied closely to the Internet Start portal. The new website put MSN in direct competition with such as Yahoo. Because the new format opened up MSNs content to the world for free, MSN. com became the successor to the default Internet Explorer start page, as all of the previous Microsoft Internet Start website was merged with MSN. com. Some of the websites that Microsoft launched during that era remain active in some form today. Other websites since divested by Microsoft include the travel website Expedia, the online magazine Slate, in the late 1990s, Microsoft collaborated with many other service providers, as well as other Microsoft departments, to expand the range of MSNs services. Some examples include MSN adCenter, MSN Shopping, and the Encarta encyclopedia with various levels of access to information, since then, MSN. com has remained a popular destination, launching many new services and content sites. MSNs Hotmail and Messenger services were promoted from the MSN. com portal, MSN Search, a dedicated search engine, launched in 1999. The single sign-in service for Microsofts online services, Microsoft Passport, the MSN. com portal and related group of services under the MSN umbrella remained largely the same in the early 2000s. The sports section of the MSN portal was ESPN. com from 2001 to 2004, and FoxSports. com from 2004 to 2014. MSN had a partnership with msnbc. com for news content from 1996 until 2012, when Microsoft sold its remaining stake in msnbc. com to NBCUniversal. Since then, MSN has launched MSN News, a news operation. MSN released a preview of a home page and logo on November 3,2009. It was originally expected to be available to over 100 million U. S. customers by early 2010
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The Hindu
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The Hindu is an English-language Indian daily newspaper. Headquartered at Chennai, The Hindu was published weekly when it was launched in 1878 and it is the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, with average qualifying sales of 1.45 million copies as of Jan−Jun 2016. The Hindu has its largest base of circulation in southern India, the newspaper and other publications in The Hindu Group are owned by a family-held company, Kasturi and Sons Ltd. In 2010, The newspaper employs over 1,600 workers, most of the revenue comes from advertising and subscription. The Hindu became, in 1995, the first Indian newspaper to offer an online edition, started in order to support the campaign of Sir T. About 80 copies of the issue were printed at Srinidhi Press, Georgetown on one rupee. Subramania Iyer became the first editor and Veera Raghavacharya, the first managing director of the newspaper, the paper initially printed from Srinidhi Press but later moved on Scottish Press, then, The Hindu Press, Mylapore, and finally to the National Press on Mount Road. Started as a newspaper, the paper became a tri-weekly in 1883. A single copy of the newspaper was priced at four annas, the offices moved to rented premises at 100 Mount Road on 3 December 1883. The newspaper started printing at its own press there, named The National Press, the Hindu was initially liberal in its outlook and is now considered left leaning. Its editorial stances have earned it the nickname, the Maha Vishnu of Mount Road, in between, there were more views than news. The partnership between Veeraraghavachariar and Subramania Iyer was dissolved in October 1898, Iyer quit the paper and Veeraraghavachariar became the sole owner and appointed C. However, The Hindus adventurousness began to decline in the 1900s and so did its circulation, Kasturi Ranga Iyengars ancestors had served the courts of Vijayanagar and Mahratta Tanjore. Since then the newspaper has been owned entirely by the members of the Kasturi Ranga Iyengar family, in the late 1980s, when its ownership passed into the hands of the familys younger members, a change in political leaning was observed. Worldpress. org lists The Hindu as an independent newspaper. Joint managing director N. Murali said in July 2003, It is true that our readers have been complaining that some of our reports are partial, but it also depends on reader beliefs. On 3 and 23 September 2003, the letters column carried responses from readers saying the editorial was biased. In 1987–88, The Hindus coverage of the Bofors arms deal scandal, the investigation was led by a part-time correspondent of The Hindu, Chitra Subramaniam, reporting from Geneva, and was supported by Ram in Chennai
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Auroville Marathon
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The Auroville Marathon is an annual marathon event that courses through the city of Dawn Auroville in Tamil Nadu state of India. They also have Half Marathon and 10k runs added and it is one of the largest and most popular running event in India, with participants from different parts of India. The event is largely publicised by word of mouth and through blogs, the event is organised by Auroville Runners in association with Auroville community since 2008. Originally started to celebrate the 40 years of Auroville, the enthusiastic participation attracted many runners from other cities, the event is non-commercial and organised purely for the joy of running. It considers all the finishers as winners and does not award any prize money for the early finishers and that is precisely why this is not a timed run
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