Sachin Tendulkar is the Sun among the stars of Indian cricket. He is one of the topmost cricketer of the world. His incredible ability to score centuries after centuries has stunned the entire world.Our beloved Sachin Tendulkar took birth on April 24, 1973, in Bombay (Mumbai). Sachin was deeply in love with cricket from his […]
Our former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is one of the most honest politicians of the world, who has never been involved in any of the corruption scandals.He possesses a sensitive heart of a poet and jots down the sorrows of the world in his notebook.His poetry book titled—Meri Athavan Kavitayen has attained popularity all
Sonia Gandhi is indeed the Superwoman of India. She has been denoted with this title, because of her inner qualities of head and heart.This powerful personality of great virtues was born on9 December 1946 as Sonia Maino, in a small town Obassano, situated in Italy.Sonia had a selfless nature from the very childhood and thus
Manmohan Singh is one of the most dynamic Prime Ministers of India.Manmohan Singh was born on Sept. 26, 1932 at a place called ‘Gah’ situated in West Punjab, now in Pakistan.He was a diligent student from his very childhood therefore, he completed his M.A., D.Phil from Oxford University and D.Lit. from Monoris Causea University at
Dr. A.P.J. (Avul Pakir Jainulabdin) Abdul Kalam is one of the most benevolent Presidents of India.He was elected as the 11th President of India on July 15, 2002.He had portrayed tremendous potential in developing the missile technology of India and thus is popularly called, ‘The Missile man of India.’He was poor by birth, yet he
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People seldom feel neutral about poetry. Those who love it sometimes give the impression that it is an adequate substitute for food, shelter and love. But it isn’t. Those who dislike poetry on principle sometimes claim, on the other hand, that poetry is only words and good for nothing. That’s not true either. When words
In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them talking pictures, or talkies. The next major step in the development of cinema was the introduction of colour. While
The Great Hanshin earthquake, or the Kobe earthquake as it is more commonly known overseas, was an earthquake in Japan that measured 7.2 on the Japanese Scale. It occurred on January 17, 1995 at 5:46 am 52 seconds in the southern part of Hyogo Prefecture and lasted for approximately 20 seconds. The epicentre of the
When early humans hunted and gathered food, they were not in control of their environment. They could only interact with their surroundings as lower organisms did. When humans learnt to make fire, however, they became capable of altering their environment. To provide themselves with fuel they stripped bark from trees, causing the trees to die.
Much of the blood on the street flows essentially from uncivil behaviour of drivers who refuse to respect the legal and moral rights of others. So the massacre on the road may be regarded as a social problem. Safety standards for vehicle have been raised both at the point of manufacture and through periodic road-worthiness
Modern scientific and technological developments in the practise of medicine and public health have drawn nursing into new and wider fields of activity and its functions have been expanded accordingly. Therefore, nursing is no longer limited mainly to activities within the hospital, or to what is called curative nursing. It has become also a community
When the air is clear, the sunset will appear yellow, because the light from the sun has passed a long distance through air and the blue light has been scattered away. If the air is polluted with small particles, natural or otherwise, the sunset will be more red. Sunsets over the sea may also be
The Bermuda Triangle occupies a disturbing and almost unbelievable place in the world’s catalogue of unexplained mysteries. More than a hundred planes and ships have vanished in this area into the air since 1945 and more than a thousand lives have been lost, without a single body or even a piece wreckage from the vanishing
Fictional stories about people who have extraordinary abilities have always attracted people’s attention. One of them is the story of Vera Petrova, who is able to perceive things with different parts of her skin and through solid walls. One day she comes into his father’s office and puts her hands on the door of a