Siddaramaiah to resign as Karnataka Chief Minister tomorrow: Sources
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India gears up to witness last solar eclipse of the decade; BJP slams Arundhati Roy for her NPR comments; more
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 26, 2019 09:45 IST
India looks to the sky as the last solar eclipse of the decade will take place today from 8 am on Thursday morning. This solar eclipse will be visible most prominently from South India. Cities such as Kannur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) in Kerala; Coimbatore, Madurai, Ooty, Trichy and Chennai in Tamil Nadu; Mangaluru and Bengaluru in Karnataka; and Puducherry are among places where the solar eclipse will be visible fully.
Other parts of India, on the other hand, will witness a partial solar eclipse. The solar eclipse began setting in at 8 am and will last till 1:30 pm. The solar eclipse's peak, i.e. the moment when the Moon is fully over the Sun, will take place at 10:47 am and will last for less than four minutes.
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