Category: News For Kids
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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…
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Super Earth Found
“NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light coming out from a ‘Super-Earth’ planet beyond our solar system for the first time.” NASA reported. Do you know what a Solar System is ? Let us refresh, Solar System consists of a star and all the objects going around it. Something like this in the picture. Sun is…
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The Upside Down House! So True!
You must be thinking that we are joking. Nah! Two architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozhanski, in the western Austrian village of Terfens have done it for real. They have been working on it for past eight years and now it is open for people to go have a look at it. It opened for public…
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Olympics Women Boxing Event
Did you know that to be able to participate in an event in Olympics, players have to sometimes play in a qualifying match. When they perform well in that qualifying match, they can go ahead and participate in Olympics. One such event is Women’s Boxing. Women’s Boxing will be played for the first time in…
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Road that Charges the Electric Cars! So Cool!
Electric cars are becoming very common these days and I am sure you would find one or two in your neighborhood when you look around. These cars run off batteries and since they do not dirty our air – are much “cleaner” option compared to regular petrol-driven cars. But there is one problem with Electric…
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Chelsea wins FA Cup 2012
Chelsea won the FA Cup in 2012 final for the fourth time in six years, beating Liverpool 2-1 in the final at Wembley in London. The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a oldest national knockout competition in English football . Ramires hit the first goal after 11 minutes and…
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Hollande becomes New French President
Francois Hollande emerged victorious in French Presidential Election on Sunday. He will be now the new French President. From the beginning Mr. Hollande appeared to have a lead ahead of Mr.Sarkozy. In the end, as expected he won as he got more number of votes. You might remember this from the movie Spiderman – “With great…
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Remembering Gurudev, the man who wrote “Jana Gana Mana”
Rabindranath Tagore fondly called ‘Gurudev‘ was born on May 7, 1861. Today on his 150th birth anniversary we remember the man who introduced the Indian culture to the rest of the world. He was born in a wealthy family in Calcutta. From a young age he was very observent of his surroundings and liked to…
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Wayne Rooney Wins Best Goal award in EPL
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the English Premier League, the organisation had asked fans of English football’s top players to nominate the best goal amongst the players most memorable goals. Wayne Rooney’s amazing overhead goal against Manchester City in the 2011 season of English Premier League has been voted the greatest goal in the history…
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Super Moon Dazzled Again !
Tell me that you looked at the moon yesterday! It was the Super Moon of year 2012. What does that even mean? The Moon yesterday was a Full Moon and way bigger than usual. A Full Moon is a phase of the Moon when you see it as a perfect circle. This happens about once…