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China, Japan, US to experience ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse

Amazing scene of ring of fire around the surface of moon as it passes in front of the fiery globe will have to been seen in sky in next week as a partial solar eclipse in which the moon pass in front of the sun.

Since 1994, the event will be for first time in past 18 years that an annular solar eclipse will be seen in this weekend by millions of people in Southeast Asia and the western U.S. up to 4.5 minutes.

Google Doodle celebrates Akira Yoshizawa’s 101st birthday

Today is the celebration of 101st birthday of grandmaster of Origami, Akira Yoshizawa.

Doodle on Google’s home page is paying tribute with a video showing paper work objects and paper butterflies popularized by Yoshizawa.

Google doodles are the innovative and interesting changes in Google’s logo dealing with a tradition of honoring special days, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists.

Each letter of Google’s Doodle represents the colorful paper folding design with flatter butterflies, associated with Yoshizawa, the man who developed a technique to convert colorful paper-craft into an art form with his more than 50,000 designs.

Japan to celebrate 1st quake and tsunami anniversary

People of Japan are planning for ceremonies to mark one year anniversary since the disaster of the dreadful earthquake and tsunami which struck the north-eastern coast along with a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will attend the Memorial ceremony at Tokyo’s National Theatre. Warning sirens will sound across the north-east of the country on Sunday at the precise time the quake struck.

As per report, a minute of silence will be observed for memorial of killed people. The time of silence will be exact when the quake hit and that time bells and prayers will reverberate across the country.

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Inflation danger continues as oil price increases over Iran

The Euro zone threats is now in a full force to covering Iran under its impact as Belgium, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands have stopped buying Iranian oil and Greece, Spain and Italy are cutting back on their purchases.

The main fact behind this is due to US sanctions regime against Iran that menaced Iran with a virtual embargo of its economy. US push the sanctions because it fears Iran might use its nuclear programme to develop nuclear weapons.

It declared that any financial institutions that deal with Iran’s central bank will punish, shutting them out of U.S. markets. A country can earn a waiver from the sanctions if it significantly reduces trade with Iran.

And for winning waivers from U.S. sanctions, Iran’s third largest customer Japan along with China is also ready to cut off oil imports from Tehran.

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