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River Saraswati did exist - A team of scientists from Department of Geology, Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU), Baroda, has confirmed through radio isotope studies about a river which had originated from the Himalayas and traversed through northwest India 10,000 years ago before getting discharged into the Great Rann of Kutch (GRK) in Gujarat. The findings of the six-year long research led by Prof Lakshman Singh Chamyal, head of the geology department, MSU, is yet another proof of the Vedic-era river Saraswati, believed to have originated from the Himalayas and ended up in the Rann of Kutch area. The internationally respected scientific journal Nature has published the research paper by Prof Chamyal and his team in its online issue dated July 14, 2017, a recognition and acceptance of the findings. “We can conclusively tell the world that there was a river flowing from the Himalayas and getting discharged into the GRK, some 10,000 years ago. We confirmed the course of the

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has denied that it was responsible for an alleged hacking of the Qatari state news agency and websites earlier this year. According to the Washington Post, US officials discovered last week that UAE ministers held a meeting on May 23 to discuss plans to hack Qatari Government news and social media sites and post incendiary false quotes attributed to Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. The hack, which took place the following day, preceded the current split in the Gulf between Qatar and a coalition of four countries that were mounting an economic and diplomatic boycott against it. The four countries — the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain — imposed sanctions on Qatar on June 5, cutting diplomatic and transport ties with it, after accusing Doha of financing militant groups. Doha denied the accusations. Speaking at the Chatham House forum in London on Monday, UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash denied the veracity of the claims,

United State President Donald Trump has lauded the “transparency” of his eldest son over the release of a chain of emails showing a Russian source offering “sensitive information” about his White House rival Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the presidential election. In an email to 39-year-old Donald Trump Jr, who is in the middle of a political storm over his meetings with a Russian source, his music publicist Rob Goldstone said the information “would incriminate Hillary (Clinton) and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father”. “My son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency,” Trump said in a statement which was read out by the White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during her daily news conference. While Trump Jr said he hopes that by releasing these emails would bring an end to the controversy, the opposition political leaders called for investigation and claimed that this is yet another indication of the connection