The magic wand to convert the world’s most daunting environmental problem of plastic waste into its most precious commodity, fossil fuels including diesel and petrol, is being wielded by a low profile woman scientist in India’s western state of maharashtra. Alka Zadgaonkar,who lives and works as an applied chemistry professor in the central indian town […]
Crowds enter inferno to gather fuel from burning tanker
A swarm of people, mainly women and school children, threw caution to the wind recently in Lagos and invaded the scene of an inferno involving a petroleum tanker to scoop fuels from the destroyed petroleum tanker. They were mainly residents of the an estate located in the Mile 2 area of a major express road […]
Dahi Handi
<p>Dahi Handi is a famous festival in Maharashtra ,India.Dahi means "Curd" and Handi means "Earthen Pot".Human pyramids try to break pots of curd even as they slip and fall ,till they succeed is called "Dahi Handi".</p> <p>Dahi Handi festival is being celebrated in Mumbai and Pune.Mumbai and Pune are beautiful places in Maharashtra,India.Dahi Handi will […]
After floods, UN urges countries to work on prevention
The recent floods that hit Europe and Asia were more than just a natural disaster, according to the UN: They are a sign of the need, from the affected countries and other potential victims, to invest more on risk-reduction, in order to prevent these disasters from taking such a heavy toll on the population, instead […]
Suicide attack kills 13 as Red Mosque reopens
Saeed Minhas Islamabad– Another suicide bomber killed 13 people, including eight policemen, and injured 52 people at a hotel near Islamabad’s Red Mosque on Friday as the government reopened the religious complex for the first time since a bloody army raid to oust Islamic militants from the site. Hundreds of students clashed with security forces […]
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