Category: Nature
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As science is getting bigger, a small particle is becoming big news. Scientists claim that they are very close to the discovery of the fabled Higgs Boson (or as some say, God particle). Their experiments at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva is boiling down on the particle believed to be the fabric of the…
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This year, Sunita Murmu was one among the 26 children who were honored by our President with the National Bravery Award for exemplary acts of courage. 16-year-old wage labourer Sunita took a tormenting experience of victimization and became a maverick for justice. She demonstrated more audacity, courage, and tenacity of spirit than all of the…
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In mid 1992, several government officials rampaged a tribal village near Sathyamangalam forest in Tamil Nadu. They assembled the villagers at one place, and started searching the village for smuggled sandalwood. Then they dragged 18 teenage girls into the forest, where they raped them repeatedly. They brought the girls back in the night, and then…
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We all were taught in school that humans have five senses. They are sound, sight, touch, smell and taste. Now forget what you studied and give it a serious thought. Do humans really have just five senses? By definition, senses are feelings that allow you to navigate your environment. In reality, people do have more than five senses.
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India’s population census, 2011 has been released. India’s population has grown to 1.21 billion, second to only China. And despite a decade of slower population growth- it was 17.6 percent from 2001-2011, down from 21.5 percent in the 10 years before that- India still gained 181 million new people over that period, roughly the entire…
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 