Bizarre Motor Manufacturers in India

clipped from funexpert.blogspot.com It must be the World's most bizarre selection of vehicles. The snooker table, tennis ball and cricket bat are guaranteed to turn heads as they speed you home at up to 50km per hour. Designer Kanyaboyina Sudhakar made this life-size snooker table-styled motorcar to measure for the world's finest players..

Haindava Keralam - global community of dedicated Hindu Keralites with a peace mission

• Maldives Requests India's Help To Prevent Its youth Embracing Terrorism
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• Maldives, india's help, preventing terrorism

  • Maldives said on Sunday that some youths from the country are being recruited by militant outfits based in Pakistan and Afghanistan to wage 'jihad' and sought India's cooperation in preventing "any passage" for these people through the country.
    
    Maldivian vice president Mohammaed Waheed Hassan, who is on a visit here, said an increasing number of youths from his country have started "embracing a version of Islam which is more strict than the traditional Islamic values.
  • "These are students and it is very easy for them to say they are going to puruse education and then...," he said, in an obvious reference to such youths.
  • His remarks come months after Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed said some Maldivians were being "radicalised" and recruited by the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight the government and coalition forces.
    
    The vice president said Maldives needs young educated youths for its progress and in no way it can import labour for developing infrastructure and other things in the country.

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clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Microsoft offers web browser choice to IE users Millions of European Internet Explorer (IE) users will have the option to choose an alternative browser from 1 March, Microsoft has announced. It follows a legal agreement between Microsoft and Europe's Competition Commission in December 2009. Microsoft committed to letting Windows PC users across Europe install the web browser of their choice, rather than having Microsoft IE as a default.

Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals

clipped from www.acm.org.sg The rulers of the Mughal empire were so renowned for their lavish lifestyle, love of beauty and vast collection of precious objects, that the Mughal emperor Jahangir was once described in a letter by the English Ambassador Thomas Roe as ‘the treasury of the world’. Visit this exhibition to learn more about the diverse techniques in the jewelled arts used by the artisans and craftsmen during the Mughal period.

The incredible honeycomb built by bees despite the freezing weather

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk If you go down to these woods today you are sure of a sweet surprise - bees swarming in sub-zero temperatures around a giant honeycomb. The hardy workers have created the giant two-foot long structure and have been spotted by walkers and winter wildlife spotters more used to seeing deer and badgers at this time of year. Bees are hibernating creatures that cannot survive in cold temperatures, but the hard-working insects are proving they are made of stronger stuff by braving the big chill. Bees are known to produce small honeycomb structures in trees during warmer summer months, but the enormous and strangely shaped structure is an unheard sight during January and February. 'Wild bees as a species are normally very temperature conscious. They do not normally survive in the cold and would ordinarily be in hibernation waiting for when the weather warms up a bit.

Thatch roof technique

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Christianizing American History

clipped from hnn.us the nation’s Christian conservative activists hold that the United States was founded by devout Christians and according to biblical precepts. This belief provides what they consider not only a theological but also, ultimately, a judicial grounding to their positions on social questions. When they proclaim that the United States is a “Christian nation,” they are not referring to the percentage of the population that ticks a certain box in a survey or census but to the country’s roots and the intent of the founders because they sense an opening in the battle, a sudden weakness in the lines of the secularists — some activists decided that the time was right to try to reshape the history that children in public schools study. Succeeding at this would help them toward their ultimate goal of reshaping American society. As Cynthia Dunbar, another Christian activist on the Texas board, put it The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next

Good or bad year for the Chinese tiger?

clipped from www.nhm.ac.uk The South China tiger is the Museum's Species of the day for 14 February 2010, the start of the Chinese Year of the Tiger. This species is critically endangered and none have been seen in the wild for more than 25 years. People will be celebrating this special day in the Chinese calendar, but will this be a good or bad year for the world's largest cats? clipped from www.nhm.ac.uk clipped from www.nhm.ac.uk There are 5 surviving subspecies of tigers in the world including the South China tiger. However, this subspecies is feared extinct in the wild as no official or scientist has seen it since the 1970s. The South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis, is one of the smallest subspecies. Once widespread throughout China, it is now thought to exist in only 3 isolated areas and it is classed as critically endangered on the 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species list. illegally killed today for their skins and for tiger parts Other human pressures are degradation and fragmentation of the tigers' habitat and disappearance of their prey clipped from www.nhm.ac.uk

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Dramatic images of World Trade Centre Released for the First Time

Nine years after the defining moment of the 21st century, a stunning set of photographs taken by New York Police helicopters forces us to look afresh at a catastrophe we assumed we knew so well.

You know but cannot see the 2,752 men, women and children who died at the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.

Even for those who were there, like me, running from the cloud and choking in the dust, it is hard to believe. But what is all too evident to everyone is that this event changed the world, with consequences that will haunt us for decades.

These dramatic images were taken by police photographers in helicopters and it is the first time they have been seen, having been released under a Freedom of Information request made by America's ABC News.

Burning buildings can be seen crumpling in on themselves as plumes of smoke rise up over the New York skyline that terrible September morning.

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Deadly: A total of seven World Trade Centre buildings were destroyed that day, killing 2,752 people flames pouring out of the ravaged North Tower Target: Smoke fills the surrounding area as the South Tower collapses after the terrorist attack by Al Qaeda The moment one of the World Trade Centre towers begins to crumble in New York The cloud spreads out, consuming the surrounding area and moving out over the East River Collapse: This image captures the sheer size of the debris cloud enveloping buildings and cars as the towers collapse Terror: A tidal wave of dust and debris roars through lower Manhattan as the World Trade Centre collapses on September 11, 2001 We have seen the Twin Towers collapse hundreds of times on TV. The steel and glass skyscrapers exploding like a bag of flour, the dust and smoke pluming out across Manhattan. But never like this, from above.