Good Samaritan: "Aai" is a Marathi word which means "mother". The Aai Foundation, launched by Santosh Narayan Garje is just that - it is a mother to 43 destitute children. Read more .....
Science: Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers announced they have seen further back in time than ever before and have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 3 per cent of its present age. The deepest images to date from Hubble yield the first statistically robust sample of galaxies that tells how abundant they were close to the era when galaxies first formed. Read more ....
Using computer simulations, scientists from the NASA Astrobiology Institute team at the University of Hawaii are shedding light on a question that has challenged astronomers for years: What causes wide binary stars? Read more ....
December 22 was the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan, and to mark the occasion Emory University mathematician Ken Ono and his students explored Ramanujam's writings and have solved one of the greatest puzzles left behind by the mathematics genius that may prove useful to physicists who study black holes. Read more ....
Fiction: All of you, I believe, love to travel - all youngsters do. But Shrikant is an exception. He hates to travel. The word travel conjures up visions of heavy luggage, that he has to carry, before his eyes. A crude translation of a story by Bengali humorist Shibram Chakraborty.Read the full story .....
Colours: For the youth, life is a splash of colours. Whether on or off the campus, living is sheer fun, joy and laughter. Share some light moments here .....
Brain Teaser: Ask any numismatist and he or she is sure to tell you that rare coins are invaluable. So, RARE + COIN should have been equal to INVALUABLE. However, my friend has given me this problem to solve, according to which RARE + COIN = TEPID. Now, whatever does that mean? Can you help? Please help .....
History: The 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda is being celebrated. On the occasion here are some selected teachings of Swami Vivekananda. Read more .....
