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Sunday, 30 July 2017

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

   July 30, 2017      


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.

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Wednesday, 26 July 2017

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

   July 26, 2017      


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.

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Sunday, 23 July 2017

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

   July 23, 2017      


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.

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A floating post office in India

   July 23, 2017      

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.

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Saturday, 22 July 2017

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

   July 22, 2017      


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.
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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.

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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      

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.

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