Category: News For Kids
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T20 Cricket: India beats Afghanistan
Afghanistan got all out for 136 in 19.3 overs chasing India’s score of 159. Kohli and Raina scored 46 runs for the fourth wicket partnership.Yuvraj Singh bowled well and took 3 wickets for 24 runs. Virat Kohli was named ‘Man-of-the-match’.
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Agni IV – Successful Test Launch
India on Wednesday successfully launched nuclear weapon capable Agni IV, for its full range of 4,000 km from the Wheeler Island off the the Odhisha Coast. “Nuclear weapon capability” means that the missile can carry the nuclear weapons upto a distance of 4,000km. The missile was developed by DRDO. India has had a series of successful missions in this year—…
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Happy Birthday Sunita Williams
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams was born in Ohio on September 19, 1965. When she was little, she loved animals and wanted to be a vet. When she grew she joined United States Navy and later in 1998, after being Selected by NASA for ‘Astronaut Candidate training’ , she began her career as a NASA astronaut.…
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Millions of Flamingos flock Lake Bogoria
Millions of Lesser Flamingos have flooded Lake Bogoria like they do each year. Few thousands flamingos are a common sight in the lake all around the year but some times in the year millions of them flock the lake. Lake Bogoria looks breathtakingly beautiful with these beautiful light pink flamingos all over it. Lesser Flamingo…
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Twenty20 World Cup Begins Today
ICC World Twenty20/T20 also known popularly as the T20 World Cup is the international tournament for Twenty20 cricket. The tournament consists of total of 12 teams. The ICC World Twenty20 tournament started in 2007, was hosted by South Africa.The tournament was won by India, who became the first World T20 Champions after defeating Pakistan…
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India-Pak T20 Warm up Match Today
Indian team has their second warm up match against Pakistan today. Captain Dhoni would want Indian batsmen to perform well to keep the winning momentum going. They had won their first warm up match against the host nation Srilanka earlier. Twenty20 World cup starts from September 19, Wednesday where in their opening match India will play against Afghanistan.…
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Sunita Williams Takes Charge of ISS
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams took command of the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday. Williams becomes the second woman to command the ISS in its 14-year history.Williams already holds three records for women space travellers: longest spaceflight (195 days), most number of spacewalks (four), and total time spent on spacewalks (29 hours and 17 minutes).…
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ICC Awards 2012 Announced
ICC Awards are conducted yearly to honour the best cricketers all over the world. The International Cricket Council has been awarding these honours since 2004. This year, One Day International(ODI) player of the year went to young Indian cricketer Virat Kohli. Kumar Sangakkara from Sri Lanka won three awards – Cricketer of the Year, Test player of the year,…
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World’s Tallest Dog
The Guinness Book World Records for year 2013 has been launched very recently. According to it Zeus, three-year-old Great Dane, is the world’s tallest dog. Zeus along with its owner Denise Doorlag lives in Michigan, US. Zeus measures 3 feet,6 inches from paw to shoulder and 7 feet,4 inches from nose to tail. According to…
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Volcano Fuego eruption in Guatemala
As the Volcan del Fuego, or Volcano of Fire, spewed rivers of bright orange lava down, authorities ordered more than 30,000 people in 17 nearby communities to be evacuated. Women and children and older people were evacuated in old school buses and ambulances. A lot of people refused to leave their homes.
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Kudankulam Confusion
Kudankulam Nucler Power Project (KNPP) is in Kudankulam in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. It is a nuclear power station currently under construction. A nuclear power station is a major source of power- both heat and electricity. So if the power station produces heat and electricity it should be good right? Then why people…
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110 year old Color Reel Found
Most color motion pictures started around in 1920’s. Now a reel of colour film more than 100 years old has been found in a hidden archive in Bradford. The footage was made by a film personality Edward Turner in 1901. May be color films were there long before we actually thought they were?