Category: News For Kids
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T20: West Indies in Finals of Worldcup
West Indies made it to the ICC World T20 final with a smashing 74-run victory over Australia at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Chris Gayle scored 75 and Windies set a huge target of 206 for Australia to chase. Australians couldn’t do much and fell like a house of cards. This is West…
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Blue Honey, Green Honey!
When you think of honey you usually think of warm yellow sweet syrup.. Yummy! But what if you opened a beehive and found blue or green honey? That is what happened with Beekeepers in northeastern France. Recently when they collected honey they were alarmed to find their bees producing honey in unnatural shades of green and blue.…
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T20: Srilanka into the Finals
Srilanka batted first and set up a total of 139 for Pakistan to chase. It wasn’t a huge total to chase but Pakistan’s batting order failed to score. Srilanks beat Pakistan by 16 runs. Man of the match was Mahila Jayawardene. Srilanka will now meet Australia or West Indies in the final on Sunday. The…
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Robot Goes To School!
.. And the boy who sent the robot stays home. Wow! Devon Carrow, from New York in America, uses the £3,000 ‘robo-swot’ to attend his classes sitting right at home. The high-tech gadget uses HD cameras to show Devon his classroom and he can signal when he wants to give an answer with a flashing…
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Taj Mahal in Dubai?
One of the seven wonders of the world and India’s pride – The Taj Mahal, might be replicated in Dubai by Falconcity of Wonders, a local multi-purpose development company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) . Salim al-Musa, the chairman of Falconcity of Wonders said that the proposed Dubai structure would be called Taj Arabia and will be…
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Comet ISON Will Dazzle Earth In 2013
What! A comet that is 15 times brighter than the moon will fly by Earth in 2013, now that is going to be spectacular. According to its current position the comet will be visible after sunset and so bright that moon will shy away. The comet, discovered by astronomers in Russia using the International Scientific…
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Who Stole the Great Barrier Reef?
The Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral cover in the last 27 years. Loss of coral is caused mainly by cyclones and crown-of-thorns starfish as reported by Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville. There are two major reasons why this is happening tropical cyclone storms, growing population of crown-of-thorns starfish and…
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Bapu’s Birthday
Gandhi Jayanti is a National Holiday celebrated in India to celebrate of the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi or Bapu. Mahatma Gandhi was born as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2nd 1869 in Porbandar,Gujarat. He later launched the ‘Quit India movement’ against the British, a non violent movement to win freedom. Finally India received independence on 15th August 1947 from the British. He is…
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T20: India Beat Pakistan In A Crucial Super Eight Match
What a Sunday cracker of a cricket match! India won over Pakistan in their first meet at the Twenty20 World Cup today in Colombo. India-Pakistan World Cup matches are always a delight to watch at home, in shopping malls and in restaurants. This match was no exception, although fairly one sided with India dominating in…
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And Once A River Flowed on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence of a dried up river that flowed over the surface of Mars – the red planet. The picture shows a dried up bedrock, that is found at the bottom of a river. The possibility of Mars having life once upon a time just became huge. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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T20: India up against Pakistan today
India is all set to play against Pakistan in their second match in the Super Eights stage. After losing its very first challenge to Australia, India has to now win against Pakistan and South Africa. As for Pakistan , they won in their match with South Africa Saturday. Pakistan’s batting and bowling, both seems in…
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T20: Lankans beat Windies
Sri Lanka and West Indies had played a game each in the Super Eights stage and both had won it so it was match between the equals. West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first. Unfortunately, they got off to a very slow start and could score only score 130 at the end…