Category: News For Kids
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Viswanathan Anand wins World chess championship 2012
Viswanathan Anand won the chess championship against challenger Boris Gelfand to retain his world title on Wednesday. After three weeks of regular play ended with the score tied at 6-6, Anand and Gelfand faced off in a series of tie-breakers on Wednesday, with the title of world champion and $1.53 million going to the winner. The…
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Food for Cars
Can Humans live without having food? Nah! We need energy in the form of food that we eat. Similarly the machines that we use also need some energy. Cars get their strength and energy from Petrol or Gasoline. Petrol is made from crude oil. Crude oil is formed from living creatures which got trapped inside earth’s…
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Prime Minister visit to Myanmar
What are neighbor countries? Neighbor countries are the ones that share a border. India is a large country and therefore has many neighbors. Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Myanmar are all India’s neighbours. Just like we are friendly with our neighbors, it is also very important for any country to have…
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Indian boy solves 350-year old math puzzle set by Newton
A 16 year old Indian boy – Shouryya Ray, settled in Germany has managed to solve math problems that scientists had earlier been able to solve only by using powerful computers. These tricky problems were created by Sir Isaac Newton more than 350 years ago and had never been solved fully. Ray only came across…
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Mark Webber wins the Monaco Grand Prix
Australian Mark Webber of team Red Bull won the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday. This was the sixth race of the Formula One season. There are a total of twenty races that complete the season. With Webber’s win, six different drivers have won the six races of this season. This has happened the first time…
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French Open 2012
The French Open is one of the major tennis tournaments that takes place every year between late May and early June in Paris, France, at the Stadium Roland Garros (named after a famous French aviator Roland Garros). French Open is the second of the four annual Grand Slam tournaments (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US…
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Kolkata Knight Riders Win IPL 2012
Kolkata Knight Riders became the new champions of the Indian Premier League as they defeated Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in an exciting final to win their first IPL tournament on Sunday. Chennai Super Kings had earlier won IPL in 2010 and 2011 season and were hoping to win it again while Kolkata Knight…
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Oldest flute found in a cave
Flutes made from bird bone and mammoth ivory were found in a cave in South Germany. Scientists have been able to prove that the flutes are almost 43,000 years old. This proves that humans lived in Europe around that time as the scientists were assuming earlier. Musical instruments may have been used for religious activities or…
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Tokyo Skytree, World’s tallest tower
Thousands of people braved the rain Tuesday to see the Tokyo Skytree, reportedly the world’s tallest tower, as it opened to the public. It is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the tallest tower, beating out the Canton Tower in China, which is 600 meters (1,968 1/2 feet). The world’s tallest structure is Dubai’s…
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World’s Fastest Train Unveiled in China
China now has the fastest train in the world. It runs from the central city of Wuhan down to the south coast, at a speed of more than 380km/h. BBC News reported. The fast trains are called CRH, China Railway High-speed. This train took three years to be functional. The country is further building 42 high speed…
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Ready for a Dive in the Park?
Oops! Did We misspell drive as dive? Um um No sir :) We are talking about a park that is underwater for six months in an year. So half the year you can drive in the park and the other half you can dive in the park. The emerald green waters of this mountain lake…
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Floating Doctors in Kashmir’s Dal Lake
Did you think we were going to tell about doctors who like to go swim and float in a lake? Well, kind of! This story is about the Dal Lake which is one of India’s largest natural lakes in the northern state of Jammu & Kashmir. The Dal Lake is more than 15 kilometers long…