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Bihar Day: How Bihar was carved out of the Bengal Presidency in 1912

Indian Express 22 Mar 2023
Before the British East India Company took over Bihar, Orissa and Bengal, the region, particularly Patna, was synonymous with prosperity and prominence ... For instance, the introduction and influence of English language in the Bengal Presidency were mostly limited to the British administrative centres of Calcutta.
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‘The Glory’ is Netflix’s most-watched programme for a second week in a row

NME 22 Mar 2023
The Glory has also become the seventh most-popular Non-English TV release on Netflix ... The Fallen Sun, the big screen continuation of the popular British series Luther, continued its reign as the most-watched English-language movie for the second week with 69million hours viewed.
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Shabana Azmi recalls Javed Akhtar's most romantic gift for 50th birthday, being touched by his gesture

Hindustan Times 22 Mar 2023
Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar will celebrate their 39th wedding anniversary this year ... (Also read ... She reunites with her Masoom (1983) director Shekhar Kapur for the English film also starring Emma Thompson and Lily James. She plays a British-Asian mother Aisha who arranges for her son Kazim (Shazad Latif) to wed a girl back in Pakistan ... ....
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Past Pages for March 22 to 24, 2023

Nevada Appeal 22 Mar 2023
Wednesday. 150 Years Ago. Col. Curry’s residence. An excellent sidewalk is being dumped in front of Col. Curry’s residence. It is from the sand that is used in mixing mortar for the new railroad machine and car shops ... Suicide ... Mr ... The entire world joined the British Commonwealth in mourning the death of dowager Queen Mary, 85, the symbol of English royalty.
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Eagle Archives, March 21, 1942: Gen. Knox overcame problems that seemed prohibitive on historic trip ...

The Berkshire Eagle 21 Mar 2023
... that hub of New England back from the English. The pocket-size Colonial Navy had been doing a thriving business in raiding British supply ships aiming for Boston, the troops were in good shape and the English, after months of virtual blockade, were not as strong as they had been.
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From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1973: Fifty Years Ago: Bhutto deplores threats

Dawn 21 Mar 2023
… As the demand for an Urdu speech was voiced, Mr Bhutto began by saying he would comply … but … he belittled the tendency to downgrade English which, he pointed out, was an international language ... The Britishers themselves were able administrators, and ...
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Business English language training market size to grow by USD 7.20 billion from 2021 to ...

Victoria Advocate 21 Mar 2023
NEW YORK, March 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The business English language training market size is estimated to grow by USD 7.20 billion from 2021 to 2026 at a CAGR of 9.76% according to Technavio ... Various forms of English are spoken in different business segments such as aviation, hospitality, finance, law, medicine, and engineering.
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‘The Lost King’: True story of the search for the grave of Richard III

The Washington Post 21 Mar 2023
Sally Hawkins stars in a classic underdog tale about the amateur English historian who defied skeptics to locate the lost remains of the British monarch ... .
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Joan Larned

Republican American 21 Mar 2023
Over time she lovingly restored the gorgeous perennial garden planted by her grandmother and went on to install an acre of blueberries (that became a pick-your-own operation), a small apple orchard, some quinces and rows of black currents, a crop that she said only the British and the French had a taste for – but she liked them.
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There are more F-35s flying today than all other stealth aircraft combined

Business Insider 21 Mar 2023
An F-35 takes off from Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia in April 2016. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman R. Alex Durbin The F-35 program has faced longstanding technical delays and budget-busting cost overruns ... Jerod Harris/Getty Images ... Matthew Plew ... British Royal Air Force F-35s and a US Air Force B-2 fly along the English coast near Dover ... .
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Americans believe British people are smarter because of their habit of saying 'right' instead of ...

The Daily Mail 20 Mar 2023
The study also noted that in American English the word more often appears as part of the phrase 'yeah right', whereas in British English 'right' is more often deployed as 'oh right' ... One example cited in the paper involved a situation in which an anecdote was told and the British English speaker said simply.
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The brothers reinvigorating the British watch scene

The Times/The Sunday Times 20 Mar 2023
When Nick and Giles English founded their watch company, Bremont, 21 years ago, the inexperienced but ambitious thirtysomething Brits had a burning desire — and serious long-term plans — to take on Swiss suppliers and makers and enter the very competitive pilot-watch sector.
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ECHR says it is ‘reflecting’ on injunction rules amid UK hopes on migrant flights

FX Empire 20 Mar 2023
The Rwanda scheme is a fundamental part of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop migrants arriving in small boats across the English Channel, with more than 45,000 people making the perilous journey last year ... GBP/JPY Forecast – British Pound Plunges Against the Yen ... GBP to USD Forecast – British Pound Gaps to Kick Off the Week.
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ECHR says it is 'reflecting' on injunction rules amid UK hopes on migrant flights

Reuters 20 Mar 2023
The British government is hoping to send thousands ... The Rwanda scheme is a fundamental part of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's pledge to stop migrants arriving in small boats across the English Channel, with more than 45,000 people making the perilous journey last year.

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