Statescan – April 12, 2019
- POSTED ON: 13 Apr, 2019
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- POSTED BY: Madhuvanti S. Krishnan
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British High Commissioner to India Dominic Asquith, who laid a wreath at the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial on April 13 to mark the centenary of the massacre, said Britain deeply regretted the incident that took place on this day a hundred years ago. The Nocturnal Animal house at the Kamla Nehru zoological garden abutting the Kankaria Lake in Ahmedabad, zoo, records over Rs. 3 crore yearly income. The two-floor zoo is designed to create a night-like environment in the day time and vice versa. And, according to a UN report India’s population in 2019 stood at 1.36 billion, growing from 942.2 million in 1994 and 541.5 million in 1969.
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