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UFO movement caught at camera from Darjeeling last June

UFO stories had always encouraged me to think beyond human limitations. It creates a different world of thoughts. I am happy to share with my readers one such UFO sighting that happened last June 2016 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. My friend Vikrant Yonzone from Darjeeling catches on camera the movement we consider to be out of this world. Yonzone says "It was the 6th of June 2016 and I had been practising night photography those days. As usual night just past dinner time which is like 10 at my house, went to the rooftop of my residence in Singamari, set up my gear, and started shooting time-lapse shots. After about half an hour or so, I noticed a strange set of lights slowly moving past the sky. Didn't give much attention to it at first as a lot of moving light sightings are common for me since my childhood days, believing them to be some sort of satellites that are commonly visible during the evenings and late at night. However, the object seemed to be quite close...

2 Ministers and 11 Parliamentary Secretaries and MLAs attend workshop on Sustainable Development Goals in New Delhi

30 January 2017, New Delhi: The two-day Legislators’ workshop on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) commenced in New Delhi at the WWF Secretariat on 30 January 2017. The workshop with the legislators’ is a part of the on-going consultations with key stakeholders about attainingthe SDG agenda in Sikkim through a legislative framework. The workshop began in the presence of Minister of Environment& Forests, Shri TsheringWangdiLepcha and Minister of Rural Management & Development Department Shri S.B.Subedi and sitting Member of Parliament from Sikkim, Shri P.D.Rai. Sustainable Development Goals are a set of 17 goals adopted unanimously by 193 member nations of the United Nations in September 2015. These include ending poverty and hunger, improving health and education, making cities more sustainable, combating climate change, and protecting oceans and forests. The United Nations Resident Coordinator (UNRC) in India, Mr. Yuri Afanasiev set the tone for the day by e...