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BOGIBEEL BRIDGE: A BRIDGE OF THE FUTURE

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         Bogibeel Bridge is one of the largest bridge ever constructed in India. It is built over the Brahmaputra river and connects the Dhemaji district and Dibrugarh district located in the north eastern state of India, Assam. It is a rail cum road bridge with a length of 4.98 kilometers. It is Asia’s second longest rail cum road bridge. It was inaugurated on 25 th of December,2018 by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.            It is the 4 th rail road bridge constructed over the Brahmaputra river. This bridge was constructed by the Hindustan Construction Company. The foundation of this bridge was laid in January 1997, by the then Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve.Gowda the construction of the bridge was inaugurated by then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2002.             The bridge is located 20 km from the Assam and Arunachal Pradesh border. It is expected to connect around 5 million people in the region. The bridge will also help in facilat

THE ARAB SPRING

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           Image taken from lithub.com            The Arab Spring is a series of anti-government protests that started in the middle east. The Arab Spring first started in Tunisia. The movement soon spread across to Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Oman etc. These movements were civil movements, which were carried out against the government of these respective countries. Some of these movements saw a change in the government in their respective countries while some of them saw a change in the government’s economic and political policies. This Arab Spring is famously related to the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, a 1978 democratic revolution in Czechoslovakia.           This Arab Spring started first in Tunisia. For nearly two decades Tunisia has been under the rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Corruption had gripped into every strata of the Tunisian lives during his rule. The movement started in December 2010, when a food vendor named Mohamed Bouaziz, was approached by