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April 3, 2012
The Dalai Lama declared Winner of One of World's Leading Religion Prizes, Templeton Prize for 2012
Tamil Writer A A Manavalan to be Awarded Saraswati Samman 2011 for his Book on Ramayana
Legendary Bengali Actor Soumitra Chatterjee selected for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012
National Award for Sanitation & Water in name of Maharashtrian Saint, Sant Gadge Baba initiated
Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan named Best Actress at the 59th National Film Awards
The Artist & Hugo emerged Winners at 84th Academy Awards ceremony winning 5 Oscars Each
Meryl Streep was awarded the Best Actress for her role in the Iron Lady at the sixty-fifth annual British Academy Film awards, the BAFTA’s
Veteran Music Composer Rajesh Roshan honoured with Lata Manageshkar Award
Union Minister for Labour & Empployment Mallikarjun Kharge presented Pride of India Award
President Pratibha Patil conferred the Ashoka Chakra on Lt. Navdeep Singh on 63rd Republic Day
The Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences chose Steve Jobs to be posthumously honoured with Grammy award
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) won a green award for reducing emissions of polluting gases in the national capital
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April 3, 2012
- Tiny Lizard called Brookesia mirca was found in Madagascar
- Scientists found the Extinct Monkey, the Miller’s Grizzled Langur in Indonesia
- Indian Black Eagle was Spotted after 90 Years in the Aravali Biodiversity Park
- Asian Honeybees shake their Abdomen to Guard the Entrance to their Hive
- The Ozone hole found by the scientists reached its maximum annual size on 14 September 2011, becoming the fifth largest on record
- The Sunderbans forest plays an important ecological role by ab...
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April 3, 2012
Restoration work on Isa Khan's tomb in New Delhi led to the discovery of the country's oldest sunken garden. Restorers at the Isa Khan's tomb in the precincts of the Humayun's Tomb World Heritage Site discovered that the Isa Khan's tomb stood within a hitherto unknown sunken garden. The sunken garden predates the famed gardens that the Mughals built and popularised. Pieces of underlying archaeology were also uncovered at the site.
History remembers Isa Khan finds as a brave and valiant noble ... Continue reading...
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April 3, 2012
Two teams of astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.The water in the reservoir is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean. The water surrounds a huge feeding black hole, called a quasar more than 12 billion light years away.
A quasar is powered by an enormous black hole that consumes a surrounding disk of gas and dust. Astronomers studied a quasar called APM 08279+5255. This quasar harbors a black hole 20...
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April 2, 2012
- The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.
- There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) in blood vessels in every human.
- Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.
- Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.
- Only humans sleep on their backs.
- The human brain is 80% water.
- Everyone's tongue print is different.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears ...
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March 22, 2012
The Myth:: Apple seeds contain cyanide.
True.Cyanide prohibits blood from carrying oxygen, causing death by asphyxiation. And, sadly, the pips inside the “fruit of life” do contain a cyanide-sugar compound. But hold on: It would take a large quantity of apple seeds to cause a fatality, since the body can detoxify cyanide in small doses. Additionally, the fatal compound stays safely contained within the tough outer shell of the pip, which is usually not ingested. Note: Cherry, peach and apr... Continue reading...
Posted In : MYTHS
December 1, 2011
Scientists have created a super-slippery material based on a carnivorous plant that, among many applications, could make it easier to get sauce out of ketchup bottles.
The researchers behind the substance were inspired by the Nepenthes pitcher plants, which has a highly slippery surface at the top of its flute-shaped leaves so that insects tumble down into the digestive juices contained inside.
They found that the plant's leaves have a sponge-like texture that are infused with water, which pr...
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November 30, 2011
Bulbophyllum nocturnum, which is the world's first known night-flowering orchid, which has been discovered on New Britain island, near Papua New Guinea.
Flowers that open only at night are seen in a relatively small number of plant species, such as the queen of the night cactus, the midnight horror tree and night blooming jasmine. The new species belongs to a group of plants which are known for their bizarre flowers.
But experts say it has never been documented in the 25,000 species of orc... Continue reading...
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November 24, 2011
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November 22, 2011
A group of Japanese students has invented a way of turning cigarette butts into T-shirts.
The unusual recycling project involves the students collecting old cigarette butts from local parlours and gas stations.
After employing a technique developed by scientists to reduce harmful toxins, the threads are then woven into a fabric before being used to make T-shirts, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported.
The idea was the brainchild of Shinji Sawai, 21, a student at College of Economics of... Continue reading...
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