An equinox is a day when the sun is in its apex over the Equator, and the Earth experiences days and nights of generally equal length. There are two equinoxes in a year: around March 21 and around Sept 22. Equinox is an astronomical…
Hoysala ensembles inscription, India’s 42 UNESCO heritage sites
The Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala — the famed Hoysala temples of Belur, Halebid and Somananthpura in Karnataka have been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage list. While the Hoysala temples maintain a…
The Special Session of Parliament
The government has announced a ‘Special Session of Parliament’ from Sept 18-22. The Constitution does not mention the term “special session.” However, Article 352 (Proclamation of Emergency) of the Constitution does refer to a “special sitting of the House”….
Shaheed Madan Lal Dhingra: Birth Anniversary
Madan Lal Dhingra was born on 18 September , 1883 in an affluent family of Amritsar. Madan Lal Dhingra was an freedom fighter, political activist and a revolutionary from Punjab. While studying in England, he assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a…
Santiniketan in UNESCO World Heritage List: Basics Explained
Santiniketan, in West Bengal’s. where Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore spent much of his life, has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Santiniketan was a residential school established in 1901 by poet and philosopher Tagore, and a centre for…
PM Vishwakarma: Basics Explained
Prime Minister today launched the PM Vishwakarma scheme. PM Vishwakarma is a new scheme and envisages to provide end-to-end holistic support to the traditional artisans and craftspeople in scaling up of their conventional products and services. and will be applicable…
E.V. Ramasamy Periyar 145th Birth Anniversary
E.V. Ramasamy Periyar , born in 17 September 1879, was an iconoclast, rationalist, and social reformer who is remembered for the Self Respect Movement (with help from S Ramanathan) to redeem the identity and self-respect of Tamils. the movement fought…
Solar Flares & Storms: Basics Explained
Yesterday an unexpected coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth’s magnetic field and caused a geomagnetic storm and there have been reports of auroras. LEARNING FROM HOME/ WITHOUT CLASSES/ BASICS If you’re ever near the North or South Pole frequently there…