Google has honoured Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe on its doodle, adding up to the long list of awards clinched by the writer in life and in death. Google said on its website on Thursday that it honoured Achebe on its doodle today; Nov. 16 would have been Achebe’s 87th birthday.Google Doodle is a special logo on Google’s homepage that is always temporarily alternated and intended to celebrate holidays, events, achievements and people.Google said that Achebe had been honoured to underscore his status as a figure of 20th century literature.
About 1.6 billion Muslims across the world will observe a month of fasting and prayers to commemorate the time when the Quran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed on the night of "Laylat Al Qadr". Muslims starts their fast today, and will not eat or drink from dawn to dusk. People wish each other with greetings such as 'Ramadan Mubarak' or 'Ramadan Kareem'. Ramadan begins on Today as the crescent moon, also known as hilal , was not sighted on Tuesday. Fasting during Ramadan is considered to be one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
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