Archive for September, 2009

Yes! That’s not only a sentence, it’s a fact that Iran is aiming more and more as far as its military power is concerned. The latest “Longest Range Missile Test Launch” of Iran from the news papers of 28th September 2009, ideally supports Iran’s aim. Iran has successfully tested the longest range missiles in its arsenal, state media said. Iran tested the Shahab – 3 and Sajjil rockets, [...]

FIFA is warning soccer fans to beware of fraud online ticket sales for the 2010 World Cup as it creates problems for international agencies to address. “Many unauthorized operators are exploiting … unsuspecting fans across the world into purchasing illegitimate or unauthorized tickets and/or ticket-inclusive travel packages,” soccer’s global governing agency said in a statement. Official [...]

We learnt in our Schooling days that Pakistan’s National Anthem was 1st broadcasted in 1950’s. The question arose in my mind, why it took 3 years to write a National Anthem although we got Independence in 1947. 1st answer I got from my mind was: Its possible because many Nations are still living without even a National Anthem, then why can’t we live without it just for three years. But, one [...]

Riyadh- King Abdullah Science and Technology University, or KAUST, inaugurated on Wednesday its first-ever fully integrated coeducational university. It breaks many of the conservative country’s social taboos by allowing, for the first time, men and women to take classes together. Saudi royals and dignitaries attended the inauguration ceremony outside the coastal city of Jeddah. So far 817 students [...]

The Analysis of moon from three different spacecrafts has proved that The moon surface contains water on it. India’s Chandrayaan-1, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and the agency’s Deep Impact probe have all detected the presence of either water or hydroxyl on the moon. – Hydroxyl is one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom linked by a single bond. The NASA-built Moon Mineralogy Mapper [...]

One of the most earning revenue, the Internet Giant, Yahoo recently relaunched its web portal, supported by $100m Global Advertising Campaign. Before the relaunching of the web portal, at the announcement of relaunch, many analyst commented that, most of the internet users use search engines to go to the websites, a web portal launch will be more than a failure, however the vast majority of yahoo [...]

On Wednesday 23rd September 2009, India launched a second satellite for the study of oceans. According to country’s main space agency, the cube shaped satellite will cover the aspects of exploring relationship between the atmosphere and ocean in order to relate the climate changes. The satellite Oceansat-2 was launched from south east coast India, also containing six nano satellites from European [...]

Monday, 31st August 2009, An official confirmed the Quit unmanned moon mission after fail attempts to regain contact with the orbiter. The Indian space research organization has currently no means to locate Chandrayaan-I in the orbit. It can float like a dead satellite for 1000 days before crashing on the lunar surface. “We are exploring the possibility of making a request to the United States [...]

The Rocky Planet known CoRoT – 7b is discovered outside our solar system, which is 1st of its kind. It has quite similar features and composition like Earth. Announced Publicly on Wednesday (16 September 2009). The planet was detected early last year, but it took months of observations to determine that it had a composition similar to Earth’s, the European Southern Observatory said in statement. The [...]

Yes, that’s true! The calories you earn by eating 5 ¼ biscuits are equal to the calories you earn daily from your normal breakfast, because eating one digestive biscuit gives you 86 calories of energy, and from 5 ¼ , you can easily earn 450 calories of energy. But you can’t pass the whole day without eating a Proper Normal breakfast, or by eating Just 5 ¼ Biscuits. Why that’s so? Let’s examine [...]