Category: News For Kids

  • Somalia is ready to elect new president

    Somalia is ready to elect new president

    Somalia is enjoying a some peace after nearly thirty years of conflict. The trouble maker militant group al-Shabab was forced out of the capital Mogadishu more than a year ago. Somalia’s new parliament is preparing to hold a vote to name a president for the country.

  • Man without limbs swims across continents

    Man without limbs swims across continents

    Can you believe it? It is difficult to believe or even imagine that a person who has lost both his arms and legs can even move. But frenchman Philippe Croizon has made the impossible possible. Mr. Croizon, who lost both his legs in an electric accident in 1994 when he was 26, used paddle-like prosthetics to…

  • Earthquake hits Indonesia, yet again

    Earthquake hits Indonesia, yet again

    A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.6 hit Sulawesi islands in northern part of Indonesia. The epicenter of the earthquake was 61 kilometers southeast of Palu city on Sulawesi Islands. This not the first time that Indonesia is undergoing such a disaster. In  2004 (earthquake magnitute 9.1) and  in 2005 (earthquake magnitute 8.6), had hit Indonesia.…

  • Curiosity ready to vaporize the Martian rocks

    Curiosity ready to vaporize the Martian rocks

    Curiosity has a Chemcam laser that can emit rays that vanish the target in an instant and reveal interesting information about it. Whoa! Don’t you wish you had that power where you could vanish a target?? Especially all that homework :) The Mars rover has selected its first target which is most probably a typical Mars basalt – basaltic…

  • “Super Mom”  galaxy found

    “Super Mom” galaxy found

    What is the name of the galaxy that our solar system is a part of? Milky Way. Now Scientists have found a new galaxy that they’re calling a ‘super mom’. This new galaxy makes more stars in a day than our galaxy make in an year. No wonder it is called the “super mom” :…

  • Yuvraj Singh back in action

    Yuvraj Singh back in action

    Cricketer Yuvraj Singh who was recently diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment at the Cancer Research Institute in Boston, USA has been selected by BCCI to play 2012 world twenty20. This international cricket tournament, will be held in Sri Lanka from september 18. He will play after a long time when India will play Afghanistan…

  • What is happening in Afghanistan?

    What is happening in Afghanistan?

    Afghanistan is a nation that has suffered a lot in the past and still is suffering. Let us try and understand what is happening in Afghanistan. First of all, who are the Afghanis? Geographically, Afghanistan  lies in between Central Asia, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. It is therefore a nation made up of many different nationalities…

  • India’s own Mission to Mars

    India’s own Mission to Mars

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently made an announcement that India will send its own mission to Mars in near future. “This spaceship to Mars will be a huge step for us in the area of science and technology,” Dr. Singh said. India will be the sixth country to launch a mission to the Red Planet…

  • Eyeless Spidey? Howdy?

    Eyeless Spidey? Howdy?

    We know that a lot of insects are blind but  not to have eyes at all..Yes! scientists have now discovered an eyeless huntsman spider. Sinopoda scurion is the first eyeless huntsman spider in the world. This is indeed one of the oddest spiders ever discovered. This species has been shown to have adapted to living in the cave…

  • Sunita Williams wishes Indians from Space

    Sunita Williams wishes Indians from Space

    Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams wished all the indians a very happy independence day from her temporary home, the International Space Station(ISS). Sunita also proudly unfurled the Indian flag. Her Indian roots lie in Gujarat as her father is from Gujarat.”You know that I am half Indian. My father is from Gujarat. So, I am familiar…

  • Growing Concern over Arctic Meltdown

    Growing Concern over Arctic Meltdown

    Arctic is the name of the region that is around the north pole. The weather in arctic is mostly very cold winters and short cool summers. In recent times, due to global warming, arctic glaciers and ice caps have been fast melting. But what is shocking now is that arctic ice is melting at its fastest pace ever.…

  • India’s 66th Independence Day

    India’s 66th Independence Day

    Every year on the 15th of August, Indians are reminded that on this day years ago we got our freedom back. Freedom that was snatched away from us. Long ago, the Britishers came to our country as traders and requested if they could do business with us, that they could be guests for some time in our…