Latest update after Swiss Bank has agreed to disclose the funds of Indians.
Our Indians' Money - 70, 00,000 Crores Rupees In Swiss Bank
(1) Yes, 70 lakhs crores rupees of India are lying in Switzerland banks. This is the highest amount lying outside any country, from amongst 180 countries of the world, as if India is the champion of Black Money.
The question Can India become a superpower? is in minds of many who have seen the country's explosive growth in the years after the IT boom. But before we do the entire math, we have to understand what a superpower really means. The way popular media has defined it is way too restrictive with all points given to growth rate, defense power and foreign influence. Time has come for us to look at the bigger and more realistic picture.
NASA has successfully steered an empty rocket hull into the moon's south pole in a search for hidden ice. The intentional crash this morning is the first and bigger of two planned collisions that are expected to kick up miles of lunar dust. The space probe is called LCROSS (L-cross), short for Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. It has five cameras and four other scientific instruments aboard, and follows the empty hull by a few minutes...
The first-ever private railway project began construction, it may seem like a modest beginning for the project’s private owners but the business focus is clear as the project will link coal mines of Sanxi. Another project that will bring China’s rail network very close to the border of Myanmar.
In an article published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, the researchers write that the process of aging may be "modifiable."They found life expectancy is increasing steadily in most countries, even beyond the limits of what scientists first thought possible. In Japan, for instance, which has the world's longest life expectancy, more than half of the country's 80-year-old women are expected to live to 90. "Improvements in health care are leading to ever slowing rates of aging, challenging the idea that there is a fixed ceiling to human longevity...
To be more precise, December 21 2012 has been suggested as the end of the world, earth as we know it. Some say that on an ancient Mayan calendar 2012 points to the end of the world. Others say that for Nostradamus 2012 is also a possible doomsday. There is in fact more than one end of the world 2012 prediction for a 2012 earth "use by date".
The flood situation in Kurnool and Mahabubnagar districts of Andhra Pradesh turned grim on Friday as large number of residential localities were submerged and there was heavy inflow of water into various reservoirs. Incessant rains and water coming into the Tungabhadra, Krishna and Handri rivers due to the heavy rains in upper riparian Karnataka resulted in a sheet of water enveloping a number of residential localities in Kurnool town and the district...
"It could happen almost any time now. We now have the technological capability to identify Earth-like planets around the smallest stars." Planet hunters have spotted more than 300 planets beyond our solar system, but the vast majority are hot, Jupiter-sized planets that would dwarf the Earth and are almost certainly lifeless.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi and in India also as Bapu.
An estimated 1,100 people have been killed in the massive earthquake that struck Indonesia's West Sumatra province with the toll expected to rise, the UN said on Thursday.
Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur because of the movement of the plates, especially as plates interact at their edges or boundaries. At diverging plate boundaries, earthquakes occur as the plates pull away from each other. Volcanoes also form as magma rises upward from the underlying mantle along the gap between the two plates. We almost never see these volcanoes, because most of them are located on the sea floor...
