Thursday, March 12, 2009

Sehwag becomes the fastest Indian century scorer in an ODI

Sehwag joins the top ten list of batsmen with fastest 100 in an ODI.
By scoring a 100 off 60 balls, Sehwag is now the Indian with a fastest century in a limited-overs-cricket. His feat has pushed the other Indians Azaharuddin & Yuvraj Singh one mark lower.

The cricketer has said "“It’s just a matter of whether it is your day. If it’s your day, then you can score 100. If not, maybe you get out.”

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Indian girl among the top 40 budding scientists selected by Intel

Smitha Ramakrishna, is one among the 40 high school scientists selected by Intel.

From Chandler in Arizona, Smitha, 17, was all excited when she had a chance to meet President Obama and hand hime over a letter. She has said that, in the letter, she wrote that Obama is a source of inspiration and also asked him to set up a Youth Commission, with representatives from every state.

Friday, March 6, 2009

A 7-year-old-girl creates record

A seven-year old girl has made it to the Limca Book of Records for being the youngest student to pass the high school examination conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board.

Sushma’s achievement has already been recognised by Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting Corporation which has
included her in its list of child prodigies.

The girl has broken the record of child prodigy Tathagat Tulsi from Bihar, who passed his high school examination at the age of nine and is a Guiness Book record holder.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Indian Electronic voting machines - a model to emulate

The innovation of the Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore and Electronic Corporation of India Limited, Hyderabad, binds nearly 741 million voters, who are expected to press its buttons to register their votes across
the nation during April-May.

“The US could in fact learn a lesson from India’s EVM experience. That will indeed be a Third World solution to a First World problem,” Surya Prakash, a veteran journalist who covered US elections.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Two more Indians join Galaxy

Two asteroids have been named after two renowned astrophysicists, MGK Menon and JC Bhattacharya.

Six asteroids were discovered during the "Project Kalki" which was launched in 1987 when JC Bhattacharya was the Director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics and MGK Menon was the chairman of its governing council. The discoverer of the asteroids can suggest a name within the 10 years of discovery. Dr. Rajmohan, the scientist who discovered these asteroids has suggested the names of Dr. Menon and Dr. Bhattacharya.

The Committee for small body nomenclature (CSBN) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has accepted the suggestions and named 2 of the siz asteroids as "Gokumenon" and "Bhattacharyya". The six asteroids asteroids were discovered in 1989 from the Vainu Bappu Observatory in Kavalur.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

India joins elite warships club

With the maiden indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) entering the assembly phase, India has announced its plans to build a second aircraft carrier.

The second aircraft carrier’s design and capabilities will be similar to the IAC.
“This is certainly not the last indigenous aircraft carrier to be built. There will be at least another one in the near future,” Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said at the keel-laying function for the IAC at Cochin shipyard here on Saturday.

Way back in 1989, the Navy had conceived plans to build two indigenous aircraft carriers to replace the ageing INS Vikrant and eventually the INS Virat.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Three Indians Win Oscars

This Slumdog is Millionaire – and it has made creative millionaires out of three highly gifted Indians. Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire scooped up eight awards out of ten nominations, three of them coming to India’s own A R Rahman, Resul Pookutty and Gulzar, at the 81st Academy Awards on Sunday night, as other high-profile films fell by the wayside in the Jai ho tornado.