Pratap Singh: 15-year-old Indian-origin school boy, he has won the Institute of Physics Prize, for successfully carrying out an experiment that substantiated an effect of Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity. Nungshi and Tashi Malik: 23-year-old twin sisters planted the Indian flag on the North Pole, thereby becoming theContinue Reading
Mandela laid to rest in Qunu, ending a journey that transformed South Africa With military pomp and traditional rituals, South Africa buried Nelson Mandela on Sunday, the end of an exceptional journey for the prisoner turned president who transformed the nation. Mandela was laid to rest in his childhood villageContinue Reading
Alexander (ship): is the name of the ship in which Charles Darwin toured for five years. Charles Darwin biography Quick Facts NAME: Charles Darwin OCCUPATION: Biologist BIRTH DATE: February 12, 1809 DEATH DATE: April 19, 1882 Did You Know?: Although Charles Darwin originally went to college to be a physician,Continue Reading
Sir David Frost: Veteran British journalist and broadcaster, best known for his series of interviews with disgraced US President Richard Nixon, died on 1 September 2013, at age 74. Ray Dolby: Who founded Dolby Laboratories, transformed cinema and home entertainment with the development of Dolby digital surround sound, died onContinue Reading
Usain Bolt sprinted past Carl Lewis into the world track championship record book by completing a triple gold-medal performance Sunday(Aug 18,2013) in Moscow while anchoring Jamaica to victory in the 400-meter relay. About Usain Bolt Usain St. Leo Bolt born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter widely regarded asContinue Reading
Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC)[1] was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato andContinue Reading
Sir.David Attenborough David Attenborough born in London, UK on the 8th May 1926, the younger brother of actor and director Lord Richard Attenborough.David Attenborough is Britain’s best-known natural history film-maker. David was brought up in Leicester and went to Clare College, Cambridge to study Natural Sciences; after graduating in 1947,Continue Reading
Sachin Tendulkar,has decided to say goodbye to One Day Internationals About Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, AM is an Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest living batsman, and second only to Don Bradman in the all time greatest list in Test cricket. Born: April 24, 1973 (age 39), MumbaiContinue Reading
Varahagiri Venkata Giri; 10 August 1894 – 23 June 1980, commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of the Republic of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974. He served as Acting President of India from 3 May 1969 to 20 July 1969, before gettingContinue Reading
Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda won a silver in the men’s high jump event on Monday at the Paralympic Games in London, bagging India’s first medal at the 2012 Games. Nagarajegowda, who suffers from a leg impairment, jumped a personal best to become the first Indian to win a Paralympic medal inContinue Reading
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