The Kōh-i Nūr  which means "Mountain of Light" in Persian, also spelled Kohinoor, Koh-e Noor or Koh-i-Nur, is a 105 carat (21.6 g) diamond that was once the largest known diamond in the world. The Kōh-i Nūr originated at Hyderabad, Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It has belonged to various Hindu, Mughal, Persian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who fought bitterly over it at various points in history and seized it as a spoil of war time and time again. It was finally seized by the East India Company and became part of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877. .... 

 DELHI: One could almost run out of words to describe the Opening Ceremony of the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi.

Minutes after the dignitaries arrived at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the 60,000 attendees at the Opening Ceremony stood at attention for the National Anthem of India. A countdown took place to the tunes of Nagada drummers for the ceremonies to begin. It kicked off by the rising of the aerostat by snake charmers and a spectacular display of lights. Several rounds of fireworks lit the skies of Delhi and raised a huge applause from the stadium...

Today, that is September 28 (some sources say it as 27th sept), is one of the most adored and respected Indian freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh’s 103rd birth anniversary. Bhagat Singh or Shaheed (Martyr) Bhagat Singh was the biggest revolutionaries of the India’s fight for freedom.

"We know that the maxim "Might is right" serves as your guiding motto. The whole of our trial was just a proof of that. We wanted to point out that according to the verdict of your court we had waged war and were therefore war prisoners. And we claim to be treated as such, i.e., we claim to be shot dead instead of to be hanged. It rests with you to prove that you really meant what your court has said.  

We request and hope that you will very kindly order the military department to send its detachment to perform our execution." These are the few lines in the Last Petition given by Bhagat Singh to the Governer of Punjab. Ofcourse as usual the Governer has given a deaf year to this Hero and was hanged on 23rd March of 1931.

The Game Which Brought More Controversy Than Sport

The Common Wealth Games 2010 have just one week left to start with a bang. They were in the news from the beginning for all bad reasons from corruption to ill preparedness . The Games got all bad focus of media from all corners. There were serious comments on the upkeep of the Athletes' village which is meant to be the residential zone for the participating  athletes. Some of the news items appeared on major news papers - 

Phishing is not new to twitter. In the February month of this year there were reports of phishing attacks on twitter where many high profile twitter accounts have been compromised. Now here comes another set of phishing attacks on twitter. 

In a news reported by BBC, it reads-

"Twitter has patched a flaw in its website that was being exploited to pump out pop-up messages and links to porn sites. Initially, users only had to move their mouse over a message containing a link - not click it - to open it in the browser. The code was spread by worms, self-replicating, malicious pieces of code. ......"

The human communication has underdone various changes from yester times.  From signs and gestures to language- language to writing – writing to pigeon mails – then telegraph – telephone – email – mobile-social networking websites ---- The new technologies enabled interaction between people away by miles but created distance between neighbors. When was the last time you have entered in to neighbor’s house for a cup of coffee? Or when was the last time you invited them for a cup of coffee? May be different people have different answers.  One more thing that many of us complain is that we don’t get enough time to do some jogging, exercises, or for some hobby etc.  But how much time we are spending on facebook or any social networking site or on Tv ?  

And if you are spending a considerable time of your busy schedule on facebooking, or orkutting or tweeting then read on …