ANTALYA, Turkey, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- China's Beijing on Sunday officially took over the honor to hold the next A1 level of World Botanic Expo during the closing ceremony of 2016 Antalya Expo in the southern Turkish Mediterranean resort.
Cheng Hong, the deputy mayor of Beijing, promised at the ceremony that China's capital city will do its best to hold the next highest level of World Botanic Expo.
About 4.5 million visitors came to the expo during the past 191 days when international panels, meetings and seminars were held, according to Faruk Celik, Turkish food, agriculture and livestock minister who is also the chairman of Antalya Expo.
Under the theme of "Live Green and Live Better," the Beijing Expo will be held from April 29 to Oct. 7 in 2019 in a 960 hectare exhibition site in Yanqing County.
The World Botanic Expo, with a history of 160 years, is one of the largest horticultural shows in the world.
NEW DELHI Bottes Ugg Bailey Button Bling Triplet Haute 1007252 Noir Soldes , Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah Saturday invited Chief Minister of the eastern state of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, to join the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Shah said that he met the chief minister, also the head of Bihar's regional Janata Dal (United) party, on Friday and extended him the offer in the wake of the two parties' recent alliance government in the state.
If Kumar joins the NDA, then some of his party's lawmakers could get cabinet berths in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.
"Kumar will take a call on joining the country's ruling alliance this month itself," a senior party leader said.
Kumar pulled out of the opposition Congress-party led United Progressive Alliance and formed a coalition government with the BJP in Bihar, following corruption allegations on his then Deputy Chief Minister, who belonged to former ally Rashtriya Janata Dal.