Category: News For Kids
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Solar Eclipse on the Weekend
A rare solar eclipse will be visible Sunday in parts of the Western U.S. and Asia. CNN reported. A Solar Eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth are in a straight line with the Moon in between the Sun and the Earth. During a solar eclipse if the Moon is close enough…
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Mr. Sangma Joins Presidential race
We had reported earlier the two candidates running for the President of India are Mr. Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Ansari. A new name has been proposed by some other political parties and that is of Mr. P.A. Sangma. Odisha Chief Minister and Naveen Patnaik on Thursday gave his party’s backing to the 65-year-old tribal…
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Self Cleaning Clothes
Can clothes clean themselves? Nah! This has to be from a magical story where jugs fly and cats talk. How we wish that we did not have to waste time in laundry? But this wish is about to become true. Scientists in China have found that if you coat the clothes with a right mix…
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David Beckham to collect Olympic flame
David Beckham will bring the Olympic flame back to the UK from the Greek capital Athens along with Princess Anne. Both of them will be at a ceremony where the flame is passed to London on Thursday evening, after a week-long relay around Greece. BBC News reported. The delegation, including five young people, will fly…
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New Guinness World Record for Surfing Waves
An American Surfer, Garrett McNamara, who caught 78ft high wave off Portugal last year has been confirmed as a record breaker. “The experts at the Guinness World Records have reviewed the video of McNamara’s wild ride on a wave he caught in November at Nazaré, Portugal last year and have officially declared it the largest wave…
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Russian Cosmonauts in space will not miss Olympics
Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will watch the Euro 2012 football championship and London Olympics while in space, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday. They will not be watching these events live as cosmonaut Gennad Padalka along with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Revin is scheduled to fly to the ISS on May 15 from Baikonour. However…
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Parliament celebrates 60th Anniversary.
Both Houses celebrated the 60th anniversary of the first sitting of Parliament on Sunday, 13th May. Parliament is a place where all the government leaders have a discussion. The discussion is generally about policies or decisions that have to be made for the good of the country. At a special sitting on Sunday the leaders…
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Earthquake hits Assam, Northeast India
A Mild earthquake shook Assam and rest of the Northeast on Friday but there was no immediate report of any damages. How severe or mild an earthquake is, is measured on a scale of one to ten. Any more than 8 is considered as a severe earthquake. Severe earthquakes on land can make houses and tall…
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Olympics Judo Event
Judo is a modern version of an older Japenese Martial Art called Jujutsu. It is also an Olympic sport. Judo is very scientific in its training methods and fighting techniques like throws, joint locks and strikes. Garima Chaudhary would be the only Indian to represent the country in the discipline of Judo in the Olympics.…
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London Olympics – Now and Then
London is preparing full-time for the upcoming Olympics. The Olympic games are now so close, you can hardly wait for them to start – but it’s not the first time the ‘greatest show on earth’ has come to the capital. They’ve been held in London twice before, the first time, over 100 years ago! It…
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Ban on Plastic Bags?
The Supreme Court of India recently said that plastic bags are very bad for Earth. But why is plastic so harmful? Whenever we throw something like paper, food peels, leaves etc there are small tiny creatures in the nature – the bacteria – who eat these things up or turn them into useful products that…
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Olympic Flame to be Lit in Greece Today
The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games.In Olympia (Greece), where the first Olympics were held some 2,800 years ago, a flame was ignited by the sun and it kept burning till the closing of the Olympic Games. To keep up with the same tradition, the Olympic flame for London…