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2–3 July – 2024 India-Bangladesh floods: At least sixteen people are killed by floods and landslides in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, while over 300,000 more are displaced. [101] [102] 5 July – A victory parade is held in Mumbai by the Indian cricket team following their victory in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. [103] [104]
When the asura named Rahu attempted to pose as a deva to receive amṛtam, the nectar of eternal life, Surya and Chandra, the deities of the Sun and the Moon, alerted Mohini, the incarnation of Vishnu. Mohini promptly employed her discus to behead the asura, but he had already partaken the nectar, and had become immortal. Rahu's head was exiled ...
Total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009, from Bangladesh.. During the 21st century, there will be 224 solar eclipses of which 77 will be partial, 72 will be annular, 68 will be total and 7 will be hybrids between total and annular eclipses.
An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, [1] with a magnitude of 0.9326. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
Date Time of greatest eclipse (Terrestrial Time) Saros Type Gamma Magnitude Central duration (min:s) Location Path width Geographical area Chart Ref(s) km mi May 18, 1901: 5:33:48 136 Total −0.3626 1.068 6:29 238 148
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. [1]
A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Thursday, April 20, 2023, [1] with a magnitude of 1.0132. It was a hybrid event, a narrow total eclipse, and beginning and ending as an annular eclipse.
The figure of Surya as we know him today is an amalgamation of various different Rigvedic deities. [40] Thus, Savitr refers to one that rises and sets, Aditya means one with splendor, Mitra refers to Sun as "the great luminous friend of all mankind", [ 41 ] while Pushan refers to Sun as illuminator that helped the Devas win over Asuras who use ...