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LUCKNOW: Masood Ahmad recalls the hush that fell when he went onstage to announce an unscheduled break during the raging battle between Lord Ramaand Ravana, last Dussehra. The huge audience assembled at the Bakshi Ka Talaab ground was not amused. A few even began to boo, till the reason for the interruption was explained.

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On April 28, 2008 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched 10 satellites into a Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). Two of the satellites are built by ISRO for use by various Indian agencies and 8 are from international customers. The lift-off and placement of 10 satellites in one launch is a new world record and beats the current record of 8 satellites held by Russia. My hearty congratulations to ISRO.

You can follow the links below for more Information
ISRO press release
NDTV news on the launch

India has been crowned Asia’s fastest supercomputer, marking the first time the country takes a seat on the list of world’s top 10 fastest machines.

Housed at Tata Group’s Computational Research Laboratories in Pune, the India-based system, ranks No. 4 on the latest Top500 list unveiled Monday at the Supercomputing Conference (SC07) in Reno, Nevada…

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A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.

Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the ‘Kerala School’ identified the ‘infinite series’- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350.

The discovery is currently - and wrongly - attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.

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In times when we hear only negative news from many countries, in particular developing nations once a blue moon rises a website that has a mission of carrying only good news.

I would like to thank and introduce in my blog goodnewsindia . This website is dedicated to carrying only good news from India. It is published by D V Sridharan. Click the link to read more good news from India, about Indians etc

Indian PM is probably the most qualified PM in the entire world currently. I received the following from a friend in email. I am posting this in my website in the hope that the info will not be lost in forwarded emails. Please click the link to know the view Dr. Manmohan Singh’s resume.

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