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Sunday 30 July 2017

Amazing Facts About India I Bet You Didn’t Know.

July 30, 2017 Sagar

1) Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island.
2) India’s name is derived from the “Indus” river.
3) Indus Valley Civilisation is the world’s oldest civilisation.
4) India, hence, is the world’s oldest, most advanced and continuous civilisation.
5) India has been the largest troop contributor to the United Nations Peacekeeping Missions since its inception.
6) India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA.
7) The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.

8) Every 12 years, a religious gathering called the Kumbh Mela occurs in India. It is the world’s largest gathering of people.
9) The gathering is so large that the Kumbh Mela is visible from the space.

10) Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
11) India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.
12) And the third largest Muslim population in the world.
13) Takshila is said to be the first every university in the world; it started around 700 BC.

14) Today, India has the world’s largest school in terms of students, the City Montessori School in Lucknow. It has more than 45 thousand students!
15) Indian Railways employs more than 1.3 million people. That’s more than the population of many nations.
16) More than 54 crore people voted in the 2014 General Election – more people than the population of USA, UK, Australia and Japan combined.
17) Number of births in India every year is more than the total population of Australia, and many other nations.
18) India has the largest English speaking population in the world.
19) At an estimate, 25% of the total workforce of the world’s population will be from India in the next year or so.
20) India’s first rocket was brought on cycle and a satellite on bullock cart.

Wednesday 26 July 2017

Principal & Teacher beat each other in front of student in Punjab

July 26, 2017 Sagar

There is no doubt that the role of teachers is of most importance to the students, they always leave an impact on students. However, what happened recently at a school in Punjab is something that the students would not want to remember. The principal and a teacher at a Government High School, Sundhran in Dera Bassi, beat up each other in a classroom after a heated argument while students looked on.

As per a report in the Hindustan Times, the headmistress of the school Veena Bassi, had an altercation with Kailash Rani who teaches science in the school. Within no time it got escalated, after which they started hitting each other with a bag. Kailash Rani alleged that other teacher too joined the headmistress and they also beat her up. According to some students, the fight lasted for about 20 minutes.

Kailash Rani said that some of the staff members wanted her to be transferred to some other school but it got stayed by a court. “That is why the headmistress can’t stand me”, said Kailash. She claimed that even though she is senior the headmistress gave the charge of the vice-headmistress who is quite junior to her.

Sunday 23 July 2017

Do you know the largest gathering of people is 2011 Kumbh Mela?

July 23, 2017 Sagar

The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space.
Space Imaging's Ikonos satellite has taken a detailed color photograph of the largest human gathering in the history of the world, the Maha Kumbh Mela, a spiritual event held every 144 years in Northern India. The festival is expected to attract 70 million people to a sacred location on the Ganges River, 15 km from Allahabad, for more than a month of bathing rituals.

A floating post office in India

July 23, 2017 Sagar

India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices. A single post office on an average serves a population of 7,175 people. The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011.

Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most popular and beautiful destinations in India. It is famous among tourists and has several attractions. One of its major attractions is the Dal Lake which is known for its natural beauty, its location between mountains, and its lovely weather and ambiance. But another jewel to its crown is India’s first floating post office!

The floating post office was inaugurated by former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in August 2011. Since then, it has been attracting tourists from all across the country. While it is a boon to the state’s tourism, the post office is also looked as a tribute to the beautiful Dal lake. Standing on a huge house boat, the post office also includes a philately museum and a shop that sells postage stamps among other things. These include picture post cards, greeting cards, local souvenir items, stationary and several books on Kashmir. Other services at the post office allow tourists to call and email their friends all across the world.

Saturday 22 July 2017

Armymen allegedly beat up cops in Kashmir after being stopped at checkpoint

July 22, 2017 Sagar

At least eight policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector, were injured after army men allegedly barged into a police station in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal district late Friday night and beat them up.

Sources said the injured policemen was admitted to a hospital and an FIR registered against the army. The incident came to fore after pictures of the policemen with severe injuries went viral on social media.

Director General of police S P Vaid told HT that the police and army shared a good relation and one incident shouldn’t be given too much importance. “We have taken the matter up with the core commander, it has been sorted,’’ he added.

The incident took place allegedly after a team of armymen in civilian clothes, returning from the Amarnath Yatra on Friday night, was stopped at a barricade in Gund by policemen as no pilgrims were allowed to travel at night . The government stops travel of non-locals including yatris and tourists in the night. The precautions were tightened after the recent terror attack on Amarnath Yatris that left eight people dead.

Police said the armymen insisted on moving forward, and stormed the police station and beat up personnel when thwarted again. They also alleged that the police station was ransacked. Sources insisted that the army commander of the nearby camp was informed about the jawans and asked to take the men into the camp.

The army’s spokesperson said “the matter has been resolved by personal intervention of senior officers”. “A minor altercation took place yesterday night between some Army personnel returning from Amarnath Yatra in civil dress and JKP personnel at Gund. No major injuries were suffered in the incident... Measures to prevent recurrence have been taken,” he said.

Do you want to look like Mark Zuckerberg??

July 22, 2017 Sagar

Designer Klaus Buchroither has launched this ₹3000 'Zuckerberg T-Shirt

Do you know how many Emilia Clarke who plays 'Khaleesi' in Game of Thrones was paid to speak only three word in season 7's 1st episode.

July 22, 2017 Sagar

In a report released in May this year, The Daily Express revealed the fat paychecks that will be taken home by the five lead actors of Game of Thrones. The report mentioned a whopping £2 million each for Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, per episode, for the final two seasons of the show.

The humongous amount sent ripples through the industry and several comparisons were made with other television actors, Hollywood actors and even some from Bollywood.

Now, with the first episode out, we couldn’t help but notice how Emilia, or Daenerys Targaryen, spoke just three words in it. This got us thinking how much, if only spoken words were a measure of performance, each of those words would amount to if the total pay was divided by the number of words the actors spoke in the episode.

Of course, this is simply an exercise in numbers and in no way suggests that an actor’s worth is measured merely in the words he/she speaks. A lot more makes or breaks a performance and this is not an attempt at belittling any of that.

Of the five lead actors, Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) spoke the most words by quite a stretch. His address to his men, the little squabble with Sansa and reading out Cersei’s threatening message amounted to a total of 560 words.

Converting pounds to dollars, Kit took home $2.6 million for the first episode, which means, each of his word was for $4,642.

Second to Jon was Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) with 396 words spoken. In the first episode, she explains her intentions to Jaime, reasons inviting the Greyjoys to King’s Landing and commands Euron to impress her with a gift.

With 396 words, she took home $6,565 for each one of those. When checking the trend in her words closely, we could notice how little she speaks when Euron came to her court. However, what little she did speak, it was all to-the-point and impactful.

Lagging close behind is Cersei’s brother/lover, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Nikolaj spoke 340 words, which made each of his words worth $7,647.

Following Jaime is Queen of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). She spoke merely three words but of course, those were the three very important words that closed the episode.

Her “Shall we begin?” got her $866,666 per word. A bit less if you count the question mark as well!

The last on this list is Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage).

Everyone’s favourite character in Westeros was given no lines in the episode. And because there is no way to divide anything by zero (actually there is but that’s a lot of complicated maths that we don’t want to get into), we don’t really know how much he took home ‘per word’. Let’s just says it’s about $2.6 million.

If this still doesn’t seem like a big deal, $2.6 million amounts to Rs 16.7 crore.On comparison, Kapil Sharma makes between Rs 60-80 lakh per episode for his The Kapil Sharma Show, while Salman Khan reportedly bagged around Rs 8 crore per episode for Bigg Boss’ season 10.

In Hollywood, Charlie Sheen is the only one who came close to the GOT 5. He took home $1.8 million per episode (Rs 11 crore), according to Uproxx, for Two and a Half Men.

However, either of the five may still not make it to the television’s highest paid list as they will get the amount for only seven episodes, compared to Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco of The Big Bang Theory who take $1 million per episode (Rs 6.3 crore) but an entire season of the show consists of about 24 episodes.

Stay tuned for our review of Game of Thrones season 7 second episode on Monday.

Friday 21 July 2017

Prime Minister Modi visited 49 countries in last three years: Government

July 21, 2017 Sagar

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has travelled 49 countries in the last three years during which India signed a number of agreements on a range of topics, the government today said.

In a written response to a question in the Rajya Sabha, V K Singh, the Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, said the Prime Minister visited eight countries in the first second half of 2014, starting with Bhutan. This year, the Prime minister has visited 10 countries in the last seven months.

Thursday 20 July 2017

10 things you need to know about India's next President Ram Nath Kovind

July 20, 2017 Sagar

Former Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind will soon take over the 14th President of India.

Ram Nath Kovind would be the next occupant of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The election, which was held on Monday, was a one way contest between Ram Nath Kovind and Meira Kumar.

Here's what you should know about Ram Nath Kovind

1. Born on October 1, 1945, in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur Dehat, Ram Nath Kovind was the youngest among three brothers. He completed his primary and pre-middle school education from Khanpur in Sandalpur block. He passed intermediate examination from Kanpur and Bachelor of Commerce from DAV College. He became a law graduate from DAV Law College, Kanpur.

2. Thereafter, Kovind moved to Delhi to prepare for civil services examination. He cleared the coveted exams in his third attempt. However, he turned down the job offer as he was selected in the allied services.

3. A lawyer by profession, he practised as an advocate for the Centre in Delhi HC from 1977-79. He was a permanent advocate for the Centre in the SC from 1980-93.

4. After the formation of Janata Party government in 1977, he became private secretary to then PM Morarji Desai. He also worked as a junior counsellor for the Janata Party government in the Supreme Court.

5. BJP fielded him as a Lok Sabha candidate from Ghatampur in UP in 1990. He lost the election.

6. In 2007, BJP gave him a ticket for UP Assembly election from Bhognipur. He lost that election too.

7. Kovind was a Rajya Sabha member from 1994-2006 from UP. A Dalit, he was member of the Parliamentary committees for SC/ST welfare, Home ministry, petroleum and natural gas, social justice, and law and justice. He was also the chairman of Rajya Sabha Housing Committee.

8. Kovind was a member of management board for Dr BR Ambedkar University, Lucknow, and Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

9. He represented India at United Nations in New York and addressed the General Assembly in October 2002.

10. He was the BJP's Scheduled Caste cell president from 1998-2002. He was also the party's national spokesperson and a member of the BJP's National Executive Committee (NEC) as a permanent invitee.

Class 9 boy rapes five-year-old girl in Noida

July 20, 2017 Sagar

A five-year-old girl was raped by a 14-year-old Class 9 student at Sadarpur in Noida on Tuesday evening. Both the victim and the accused are neighbours and the victim often used to visit the boy’s house to play.

According to the police, the incident took place around 7pm on Tuesday, when the girl had gone to the house of the accused.

Ajay Kumar Singh, station house officer of Sector 39 police station, said, “When the girl returned to home she had bloodstains on her clothes and was bleeding. She narrated the ordeal to her mother, after which the parents approached police.” Singh said that the medical examination of the child confirmed rape.

The victim’s father works as a data operator at a private firm in Noida, the police said.

The girl’s father said that his daughter had not been keeping well for the last few days and had just started recovering from illness.

“On Tuesday evening, the girl went up to the third-floor of their building to the boy’s house for playing. Incidentally, the boy’s family was not at home,” Singh said.

After the incident, the victim’s family went to the boy’s house and informed his parents about the incident, police said.

“The boy has confessed to his crime. We have sent him for counselling. The boy will be produced before court after which he will be sent to a juvenile correction home,” the police said.

A case under section 376 (rape) of IPC and section 3/4 of POCSO Act (Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act) has been registered against the boy.

Reserve Bank of India to Issue New Batch of Rs 20 Notes Soon

July 20, 2017 Sagar

Mumbai, July 20: The Reserve Bank of India is all set to release a new batch of currency notes of denomination of Rs 20 under the Mahatma Gandhi series-2005. The new notes of Rs 20 will be released with the inset letter ‘S’ in both the number panels, news agency ANI reported.

According to a report, another major change that will be seen in the new currency notes will also carry a signature of RBI Governor Urjit Patel, which the older Rs 20 notes did not have. However, the design of the new Rs 20 notes will not change in any way and will remain the same as the ones released in September 2016 with the inset letter ‘R’. The RBI also said that the old Rs 20 notes in circulation will continue as a legal tender.

There were reports that the RBI is looking to issue the Rs 200 notes to make daily transactions easier for people. Last month, the RBI introduced a new series of the recently introduced Rs 500 notes.

“In continuation of issuing of Rs 500 denomination notes in Mahatma Gandhi (new) series from time to time which are currently legal tender, a new batch of banknotes with inset letter “A” in both the number panels, bearing the signature of RBI Governor Dr Urjit R Patel Governor; with the year of printing “2017” on the reverse, are being issued,” RBI said in a statement.

Wednesday 19 July 2017

This Hyderabad Couple Converts ‘Dead’ Plastic to Petrol

July 19, 2017 Sagar

For over a year now, 45-year-old Satish, a long-time resident of Hyderabad, has been involved in turning 'dead' plastic, into usable fuel.

“When plastic is made, it gets a life of four or five cycles. That's what they call recycled plastic. However, after repeating the process a few times, it gains weight and it loses its properties. Then it is called 'dead' plastic or end-of-life plastic," Satish says.

1. The reactor where plastic is depolymerised.

2. ‘Dead’ plastic waiting to be processed.

3.After the reactions, the products are transferred to barrels marked red (diesel), blue (high-speed diesel) and black (petrol).

4.Satish shows a sample of fresh high-speed diesel.

4. The final products.

Naked thief steals shoes, utensils instead of cash from SBI's Pathankot branch.

July 19, 2017 Sagar

He entered the bank through a hole he dug, but failed to open the locker
Security footage from CCTV cameras showed a naked man entering the bank through the hole dug by him at around 2:54 am on Monday. He spent more than an hour at the bank before escaping the same way he came, taking with him a pair of shoes, two pressure cookers, and a pan.

DDLJ matinee show cancelled at Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir for the first time in 22 years. Here’s why

July 19, 2017 Sagar

Mumbai’s iconic Maratha Mandir — which has been running the movie Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) for the past two decades — had another first, but not the kind that would make Shah Rukh Khan fans happy. For the first time in 22 years, the film’s matinee show was cancelled for the trailer screening of Shraddha Kapoor-starrer Haseena Parkar on Tuesday. The film is a biopic on gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s sister, who is also known as ‘Queen of Mumbai’.

Manoj Desai, executive director of Maratha Mandir Cinema, said the makers of the film thought of launching the trailer there as Parkar lived in Dongri, which is very close to Maratha Mandir.

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Lalu Prasad offers Mayawati a Rajya Sabha seat from Bihar

July 19, 2017 Sagar

Lalu Yadav

Lalu, who heads the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), tweeted from his handle, @laluprasadrjd: "Spoke with Mayawati Ji in (sic) length. Offered & requested her to be Rajyasabha MP frm Bihar to fight against atrocities & divisive agenda of BJP."

Amid tension and division within the Opposition, Lalu Prasad has offered to consolidate Dalit votes by making a significant gesture: offer Mayawati a Rajya Sabha seat from Bihar, a day after the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief resigned in protest after she was not allowed to speak in the House.

Lalu, who heads the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), tweeted from his handle, @laluprasadrjd: "Spoke with Mayawati Ji in (sic) length. Offered & requested her to be Rajyasabha MP frm Bihar to fight against atrocities & divisive agenda of BJP."

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