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The Battle of Swally was fought in November 1612 off Suvali, a village near Surat on the Gujarat coast. A small English squadron under Captain Thomas Best defeated a larger Portuguese fleet, and the victory ended the belief that the Portuguese could not be beaten at sea in Indian waters.

The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 inserted a new Part IX-A titled The Municipalities into the Constitution, and it came into force on 1 June 1993.

Article 161 lets the Governor grant pardons, reprieves, respites and remissions of punishment, and suspend, remit or commute the sentence of any person convicted of an offence against a law on a matter to which the executive power of the state extends.

Article 163 says there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at its head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his functions, except in the few matters where the Constitution requires him to act in his own discretion.

The pillars mark the route taken by Shri Ram during his period of exile, and the stated purpose of inaugurating them is that they carry the message of the Ram Van Gaman Path and the virtues of Shri Ram to generations to come.

Eleven Shri Ram Stambhs were inaugurated digitally at the programme, and these pillars commemorate the route taken by Shri Ram during his exile so that the message of the Ram Van Gaman Path reaches later generations.

Amit Shah, who holds the Home Affairs portfolio along with the Ministry of Cooperation, addressed the inaugural ceremony of the centenary year celebrations organised in New Delhi to mark the birth anniversary of the former Vishwa Hindu Parishad president Ashok Singhal, with several dignitaries present.

At the annual meeting of the AIIB Board of Governors the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs attends as India's Governor to the bank, and on this occasion she also leads a delegation of Ministry of Finance officials.

The eleventh annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is scheduled in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and the Union Finance Minister travels there on an official visit for it.

India is the second largest shareholder of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the Union Finance Minister attends the annual meeting of its Board of Governors as India's Governor to the bank in that capacity.

The bronze medal of Tejaswin Shankar was praised on the ground that competing across such demanding events over two days calls for exceptional versatility, endurance and resolve, and he showed all three while finishing his campaign strongly.

Parul Chaudhary finished third in that race at the Asian Games and, on her way to the podium, clocked her personal best, which is the detail that made her bronze stand out.

Tejaswin Shankar finished third in the men's decathlon at the Asian Games and took the bronze medal, and the achievement was praised because the decathlon spreads demanding events across two days and asks for versatility, endurance and resolve together.

The medal was called historic precisely because India had gone without a podium finish in the men's high jump at the Asian Games for five decades, and that wait was brought to a close by this jump.

The announcement records that Sarvesh Kushare won a silver medal in the men's high jump at the Asian Games, which means he finished as the runner-up in the final.

Sarvesh Kushare finished second in the men's high jump at the Asian Games and took the silver medal, a result that closed an Indian medal wait of five decades in that event.

Both are tiny algae grown in tanks and sold as protein rich food supplements, and both have been studied as food for astronauts.

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Station stands on the coast of the Gulf of Mannar in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.

Vaishnavism recognises the dashavatara, the ten incarnations that Vishnu is said to take whenever order in the world breaks down.

The plain remove-directory command is built to delete an empty folder only. In Windows it is rmdir, also written rd, and in Linux it is rmdir; both stop with a message such as "The directory is not empty" when anything is still inside.