Wednesday, 29 June 2016

11 most interesting places in India

-Travelling in India is like a roller-coaster ride, thrilling and unforgettable.
-India has something to offer to every traveller: scenic beauty, beaches, mountains, fauna, adventure sports, luxury hotels, historical monuments, a cultural treat for all the senses... The experience will leave you a little exhausted; because in every moment, there's so much to live.

 -India isn't called  Incredible India  for nothing.
-This wonderful land is riddled with more mysteries and astonishing things than Alice or Dorothy could ever have imagined.

=Sometimes uncanny and sometimes uplifting, India is full of surprises.
-Every corner of this wonderland has something waiting to be unraveled, just like these:

1. Levitating Stone - Shivapur, Maharashtra
-Somewhere in Pune, in a quaint little hamlet called Shivapur, lies the Hazrat Qamar Ali Darvesh that has a magical story to tell.
-The current shrine was a gymnasium, 800 years ago.
A Sufi saint called Qamar Ali was taunted by the wrestlers there.
-The saint placed a spell on the rocks that were used for body-building.
-The 70 kg rock can only be lifted by 11 finger tips touching it and calling out his name loudly.
-Till date, the Stone of Qamar Ali can be magically lifted by chanting his name!


2. Lake of Skeletons - Roopkund Lake, Chamoli, Uttarakhand


-At a height of 16,500 feet, in the middle of the most uninhabitable part of the Himalayas lies the secluded Roopkund Lake, covered in snow and surrounded by rock-strewn glaciers.
-More popularly known as  Skeleton Lake  or  Mystery Lake  , the spine-chilling attraction of this lake is the 600 odd human skeletons that were discovered here.
-These date back to the 9th CE and are clearly visible at the bottom of the shallow lake when the snow melts.


3. The Curious Case Of Twins - Kodinhi (Kerala) and Umri (near Allahabad)


-Kodinhi, a sleepy little town tucked away in the Malappuram district of Kerala, has managed to baffle scientists across the world. 
-In a population of 2000, Kodinhi has 350 pairs of identical twins! It has rightfully earned the title of 'Twin Town.'
6 pairs of twins in every 1000 births is considered a high twinning rate.
-Kodinhi has a rate of 42 twins per 1000 births.
This means, almost every family in Kodinhi has more than one pair of twins!


-Mohammedpur Umri village, near Allahabad has a similar tale to tell.
With over 60 pairs of identical twins in a total population of 900, Umri's twinning rate is 300 times the national average, and perhaps the highest in the world.
-Researchers believe that the cause might lie in the genes, but for others, it is the divine hand.


4. Get pulled uphill by magnetic force - Magnetic Hill, Ladakh

-At an altitude of 11000 feet above sea level, Magnetic Hill is one of the must-see things on the way to Leh.
-It is known to have magnetic power that can pull a car towards itself even when the ignition is off. 
-It is a thrilling experience, but in reality, it is only an optical illusion caused by gravity hill.
-Magnetic Hill is one of the world's recognized gravity hills.


5. Asia's Cleanest Village - Mawlynnong, Meghalaya

-Mawlynnong Village in Cherrapunji is popularly called 'God's Own Garden.'
-It has won international accolades for being Asia's Cleanest Village.
-It is a community-based effort for promoting eco-tourism.
-It is interesting to note that this village has a 100% literacy rate and most villagers speak English fluently.
-Mawlynnong boasts of other amazing sights like waterfalls, Living Roots Bridge and a Balancing Rock.


6. India's Highest and  Most Tragic  Waterfall- Nohkalikai Falls, Meghalaya

-At a height of 1115 feet, the Nohkalikai Falls near Cherrapunji is India's highest plunge waterfall.
-Fed naturally by rainwater, this waterfall is named after the tragic tale of a woman called Ka Likai.
-After the death of her husband, Ka  Likai remarried.
-But her new husband was extremely jealous of her love for her daughter. 
-He murderd the daughter, and to hide the evidence, cooked up her remains into a meal.
-Kali Kai searched high and low for her daughter but cannot find her.
-Her husband offers her the meal, as she is exhausted.
After eating, she discovers to her horror, the daughter's fingers lying in basket filled with betel-nuts.
-Grieved and anguished, she throws herself off the cliff, giving the waterfall its name, '  Nohkalikai  ' meaning 'Fall of Ka Likai.'


7. Hanging Pillar - Lepakshi, Andhra Pradesh




-The small historical village of Lepakshi is home to many ancient relics and architectural marvels.
-One of them is the Hanging Pillar of the Lepakshi temple.
 -Amongst the 70 pillars of the temple, one hangs without any support! Visitors pass objects under the pillar to check if the claim is true.
-According to locals, passing objects under the pillar brings prosperity to one's life.


8.The Eternal Flame - Jwala Ji Temple, Kangra

-Throughout the year, people visit the Jwala Ji Temple of Kangra to seek blessings from the Goddess.
-In the centre of the temple, a hollowed stone holds a flame that has been burning for hundreds of years.
-According to the legend, Lord Shiva's wife, Sati, immolated herself in anguish when her father disrespected her husband.
-A furious Shiva danced the Tandav Nritya carrying the burnt corpse.
-In doing so, she fell into 51 parts and landed on the earth.
-Each of these locations turned into a religious shrine for the Hindus.
-The Jwala Ji of Kangra is believed to be Sati's fiery tongue.

9. The Motorcycle God - Bullet Baba Shrine, Bandai, Rajasthan

-If there is any place in the world where you'll come across a shrine where flowers and liquor bottles are offered to a motorcycle, it has to be in India! At Bandai, Jodhpur, Om Singh Rathore died when he crashed his Bullet into a tree while riding drunk.
-The police claimed the bike and took it to the station.
-The next day, the bike was found at the spot of the accident.
-They brought it back to the station, emptied the fuel tank and chained it.
-Yet the bike miraculously found its way back to accident spot the next day.
-The motorcycle was moved permanently to the location and the Om Baba (or Bullet Baba as it is popularly called) Shrine was erected.
-Every day many passers-by come to offer their prayers.
-The spirit of Om  Banna  is believed to protect travellers.


10. Living Roots Bridge - Cherrapunji, Meghalaya

-In Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, man has befriended nature and cajoled it into bending to his ways.
-People build bridges, but the Khasis of Meghalaya, they grow bridges.
-Ficus Elastica or the Rubber Tree produces strong secondary roots from their trunks.
These  have been trained to grow in a particular direction using betel-nut trunks, forming sturdy, living bridges over decades.
Some of these bridges are more than a hundred feet long.
-The Umshiang Double Decker Bridge is truly one of a kind in the entire world.
Some ancient root bridges are over 500 years old.


11. World's Only Floating Lake - Loktak Lake, Manipur

-The largest freshwater lake in India's North-East, the Loktak Lake is a sight to behold.
-Because of its floating  phumdis,  it has been named the world's only floating lake.
-Apart from its scenic beauty, this lake plays a big role in Manipur's economy, serving as a source for hydropower generation, irrigation, drinking water supply and source of livelihood for local fishermen.
-The largest of all the phumdis, or floating islands on Loktak, is the Keibul Lamjao National Park, the last natural refuge of the endangered Manipur Brow-Antlered deer.


 ALL THAT IS ABOUT 11 WONDERFUL PLACES IN INDIA



word of the day: taciturn
meaning: reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
eg: Marya came back to dinner taciturn and serious, having evidently suffered a defeat at the old prince's.

quote of the day
: " work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

PSLV-C34 MISSION

Indian Space Research Organization's(ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C34),on its 36th flight successfully launched 727.5 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with the 19 co-passenger satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on 22 June,2016. 

KEY POINTS OF ISRO's PSLV-C34 MISSION:

1) The maximum number of satellites that ISRO has been able to launch in a single mission so far is ten.
-This was achieved in June 2008 when it placed those satellites into various low earth orbits.
-The idea behind launching so many satellites is reducing cost of the mission.


2) The rocket’s main cargo is India’s 727.5 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation.
-This satellite is similar to the earlier Cartosat-2, 2A and 2B.
-The images sent by Cartosat satellite will be useful for cartographic, urban, rural, coastal land use, water distribution and other applications.





3) Chennai’s Sathyabama University and College of Engineering, Pune have also sent up one satellite each with PSLV-C34.

4) The Cartosat will take more than half of the weight of all the payloads put together. The rest of the satellites weighed about 560 kg at lift–off.

5) The total weight of all the satellites on the rocket is 1,288 kg.
Thirteen of the satellites are from USA including the 12 Dove satellites from Planet Labs organization, each of which weighs just 4.7 kg.
-There are two Canadian satellites and one each from Germany and Indonesia.





6) According to ISRO, the 110 kg SkySat Gen2-1 belonging to Terra Bella, which is owned by Google.
The small earth imaging satellite can capture sub-metre resolution imagery and high definition video.


7) The Planet Lab’s Dove Satellites are also earth imaging satellites.

8) The PSLV rocket also carries an 85 kg M3MSat from Canada.

9)  The 1.5 kg Sathyabamasat from Sathyabama University will collect data on green house gases while the 1 kg Swayam satellite from College of Engineering, Pune will provide point-to-point messaging services to the HAM (amateur radio  used for non-commercial exchange of messages)radio community.

10) Till date India has launched 57 foreign satellites successfully.



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word of the day: long time no see(common expression)

meaning: greeting someone after a  long time

eg: Hi, sneha how are u?, long time no see.


quote of the day: "Great works are performed not by strength, but by preservance". 


Saturday, 25 June 2016

CICRET BRACELET

Cicret bracelet is a simple wrist band integrated with a
Pico-projector.
-It turns on into a smartphone by just twisting our wrist.
-It makes our skin new TOUCH SCREEN.


KEY FEATURES:
-This band is waterproof  and  can be used as a standalone device
  or along with the smartphone.
-We can send and receive emails, browse the web, play games,
   answer calls, check weather, find way, etc.
-It will allow you to access almost all the functions from your
   arm without holding the gadget every time.




WORKING OF CICRET BRACELET:
-It works based on Prototype model.
-It comes with a row of eight proximity sensors pointing
   towards the user's forearm.
-The "Pico Projector " projects the interface on your arm
  when we place our finger ,the long-range proximity sensors intercepts
  your movements, sending the info back to the processor(
in the cicret braclet).
-Cicret's futuristic features include an accelerometer and
  a vibration module, LED for notifications, WiFi, Bluetooth and a Micro USB port.




HOW TO OPERATE CICRET BRACELET:
-We can turn on Cicret bracelet which is connected to a
  mobile device via the Cicret app.
-It is connected through WIFI or Bluetooth.
-It could operate as a standalone device and can also
  be paired with your existing smartphone, which means
  users can perform all functions using a large screen display
  without the need to pull out their phones.




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THAT'S  ALL ABOUT CICRET BRACELET

word of the day: egg head(idiom)

meaning: intelligent, studious

Eg: Mary will make it to the top in her exams because she is   always   been an egg head.




Quote of the day: Don't go through life, grow through life.

Friday, 24 June 2016

CORTANA

" Cortana" is an intelligent personal assistant created by Microsoft  to compete against voice assistants
like Apple's "Siri" and Google's  "Goggle Now"

-It is basically a human voice recognition software that works by  taking inputs from the voice of the user rather than by keyboard

-It was demonstrated for the first time at the Microsoft build developer conference held on 2 april,2014

-It is available for
   windows 10 pc,
   windows 10 mobile,
   windows phone 8.1

-Cortana is currently available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese languages.



HISTORY  BEHIND CORTANA:

-Cortana is a artificial intelligent (AI) character in Halo video game series
-It was constructed by the cloned brain of Dr.Catherine and the voice of the character is given by    Jen Taylor






FUNCTIONALITIES OF CORTANA:
-Cortana can set remainders and phone notifications
-It replies to user commands using Bing search engine(Microsoft edge) and  Firefox search engine
-Cortana also includes a music recognition system
-We can dictate emails to Cortana, get directions or find cool things nearby, or simply search the Web.
-On the desktop, she(Cortana) attempts to search for documents.
-We can give any commands to it like  knowing the current location, telling stories, getting weather   information, singing a song, telling jokes, news updates, etc

TECHNOLOGY BEHIND CORTANA:
The natural language processing capabilities of Cortana are derived from "Tellme Networks" (bought by Microsoft in 2007) and are coupled with a Semantic search database called "Satori".Computing power for Cortana is provided by Microsoft's extensive cloud computing resources that also power Microsoft Azure.

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ALL THAT IS ABOUT CORTANA


Word of the day: over the moon(idiom)

meaning: great feeling

eg: My friend just got engaged and she feels over the moon.



                                   Quote of the day:
            God saves us in stroms, but not from stroms.