Lord Buddha 3 Essay on “Lord Buddha”   The childhood name of Gautama Buddha was Siddhartha. He was born in 563 B.C. His father’s name was Shuddhodhana was the kind of Kapilvastu. His mother’s name was Maya Devi. She died when Gautama was only seven days old. It was his stepmother, Gautami Devi, who brought him up.             He grew up to be a very sensitive young man who was...

PSLV-C17  Successful Launching           India on July 15, 2011 successfully launched its latest communication satellite gsat-12 on board a powerful variant of homegrown Polar Satellite launch vehicle, pslv-c17, front estates dhavan space centre sriharikota.           In a textbook launch, Indian Space research organization’s work horse pslv lifted off from the second launch pad of the Spaceport at 4.48 pm at the end of the 53 hour countdown and placed the gsat-12...

Census of India Essay No. 1           The provisional data of the Census 2011 was made public on March 31, 2011. It stated that India’s population has touched a new figure of 1.21 billion with a rise of over 181 million from the last decade. Now, India’s population has touched the combined population of the well-known countries like the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Japan that is 1,214.3 million....

Lokpal Bill Forty-three years after the first draft was conceived, the Union Cabinet on July 28, 2011 approved a Lokpal Bill, Keeping outside its purview a serving Prime Minister, the higher judiciary and the conduct of MPs inside Parliament. But timing the Bill “unacceptable,” social activist Anna Hazare, who had initiated a movement in April demanding the anti-corruption legislation, announced his decision to go on an indefinite fast to press for...

A Hockey Match Last Sunday I witnessed a very keenly contested hockey match between the  National College and the Government College. Large crowds of spectators gathered to witness the final match of the year. A match during the first half It was a brisk game from the very ‘start.  The center forwards of the National team pressed their opponents hard. At first, they seemed to carry everything before them. At one...