Category: News For Kids
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Serena Williams wins Wimbledon Womens Championship
Serena won her fifth Wimbledon crown and 14th Grand Slam title.She defeated Radwanska 6-1, 5-7, 6-2. It was Serena’s first Slam victory in two years, after major illness and serious injury threatened to derail her career. “A couple of years ago, when I was in hospital I never thought this was possible. I never…
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Too Lazy to Bathe!
Aren’t there some days where you don’t want to take a bath, but mom just won’t listen. Well now there is a way you can feel refreshed without taking a bath, all thanks to a young South African. Want to know more?.. So this young man has invented a product which can make you clean ,…
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Dalai Lama’s 77th birthday
Thousands of Tibetan exiles and foreigners attended the 77th birthday celebrations of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Himachal Pradesh. The Hindu Reported The Dalai Lama is considered by the Tibetans as a ‘living god’. ‘Dalai Lama’ is the title for the highest ranked spiritual leader among Tibetan buddhists. Dalai means ‘Ocean’ and Lama stands for ‘the…
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Damage by Floods in Assam
Imagine a container with water. Pour some water till the top. What would happen now if you pour some more water than it can hold? Water will overflow to the surroundings. Same happens with rivers. Sometimes rivers get over filled with a lot of extra water. This mostly happens at the time of non stop…
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Ice Age flower blossoms again!
This is really cool. Imagine this, what if you freeze the seeds of a plant and keep it frozen for 30,000 years. Now take them out and plant them. Will they grow? Surprisingly some scientists have recently done this, “They found the fruit of an ancient plant that had been frozen underground in Siberia — a…
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Wimbledon 2012: Update
In Wimbledon men’s singles semi-finals, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic will play against each other in wimbledon 2012 semifinal. It will be the 27th meeting between the two, but the first at Wimbledon. “It is our first grass-court match. We don’t know quite what to expect, I feel it’s a bit of an even ground.”…
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Rare Derecho Storm in United States
On July 1, In eastern U.S, pleasant summer showers suddenly turned into a series of nasty thunderstorms. Sounds like a scene from a movie right? But sadly this is really what had happened. U.S was hit by something what the weathermen (meteorologists) call a ‘Derecho’. Derecho is a severe thunderstorm which is made up of…
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Plants that feed on Underground Animals Found!
“Three species of carnivorous plant that feed on worms underground have been discovered in the Brazilian Savannah.” The Telegraph reported. Scientists have discovered a new type of carnivorous plant that traps and eat its prey underground. So far we knew about a lot of plants that capture the prey in its leaves above the ground.…
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Rock Paper Scissor
Well we all love to spend hours on this game, don’t we ? If you think you are really great at the game, read this. There is a Robot, created by the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory in Japan which will beat you in this game all the time. How can this be? Is it magic? Or is…
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Olympic Sport: Beach Volleyball
Imagine playing a sport on the sandy beach, with fresh cold air coming from the ocean to refresh you. This sport is Beach Volleyball also known as Sand Volleyball. Beach Volleyball is very similar to Indoor Volleyball where the object of the game is to send the ball over the net on the opponent’s court so…
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Salty Ocean beneath Titan?
Did you know that Saturn has 62 Moons!! What a fascinating view in the night sky that must be :) The largest moon of Saturn is Titan. Titan is so big in size that if it orbited the sun instead of Saturn, it would probably be a planet. A team of international scientists now say…
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Bugs For Clean Up Time!
Bangalore which was once called a “city of lakes” is slowly losing its charm. A lot of lakes in Bangalore are quite dirty and full of stench. In order to clean these dying lakes, a private firm, in association with the State Horticulture Department, has started a project to restore the water bodies with microbial treatment.…