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Multi millionaire Denis Tito plans historic trip to Mars in 2018

Multi millionaire Denis Tito plans historic trip to Mars in 2018

Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can definitely let you have an “out-of-world” experience, literally. Denis Tito (Denis Anthony Tito), who founded the Wilshire Associates, serves an international clientele representing assets worth 12.5 trillion dollars. In 2001 he became the first space tourist by funding his own trip to space. He had joined the [...]

Tachyons will lead to a whole new world!

How would it be if one fine morning you get out of your home and find yourself at college, even before you start walking? Suppose somebody has complained unnecessarily about you and you were going to repay him with blows and you find that he is in hospital even before you hit him? These events [...]

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500 year old girl makes her debut on YouTube

Somewhere between 1450 and 1480 a young girl was sacrificed as an offering to the Inca Gods. Her body was preserved as a mummy and frozen in ice. She was around 11 to 15 years old then. By the maximum approximation, the mummy is 532 years old now. The startling discovery was made by anthropologist [...]

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20 Years, or more? Celebrating World AIDS Day

Some years back we were threatened. WHY? No. No. I am not talking about Corruption or Inflation…. But of becoming the AIDS Capital of the world. And this year we are celebrating the 20th year of India’s endeavor to prevent and control AIDS and also the establishment of National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) for the [...]

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The Japan Tsunami: Revisiting one of the world’s biggest nuclear disasters and an interrogation to our technology driven future

Beware the fury of a patient man. And yet again the world witnessed the nature’s angst. Japan, the island nation, within  the blink of an eye suffered one of the most severe earthquakes in the history of the country. The earthquake which read 9 on the Richter scale rather than the planned worst case scenario [...]

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Sunita Williams returns to Earth after four months – Welcome back!

Sunita Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide made a successful touchdown to Earth after 127 days of space journey. It was a perfect landing for the trio as the landed at 0726 IST in Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Helicopters rushed with search and recovery crew, the Russian Soyuz capsule (Soyuz TMA-05M ) had parachuted 35 kilometres from [...]

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Tiger reserve and ban on tourism in core areas

The honorable Supreme Court of India lifted ban on tourist activities in core areas partially on the request of the Union Government. It sought permission for 20% area under tourism. After the 24th June order by the court, several states urged the center to re-visit the guidelines and lift the ban. India has lost 32 [...]

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Side Effects of Pain Killers

My head aches; pop goes the pill, my stomach aches another pill goes down the hill. We take pain killers for anything and everything. But do we ever give an afterthought to what are its side effects . How and when can they become an albatross around our neck. Take for example aspirin that is [...]

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Origin of the Universe

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Origin of the Universe

The question of the origin of Universe has tortured mankind since its birth . Who created it ? What did it come from?

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We see ONE side of a mirror

The globe is constituted by millions of creatures, the most dominant of them being the Homo Sapiens. We and our ‘theories’ tend to rule the earth. We assume that it is WE who own this earth. Do we know what the real part of the story is? Human beings celebrate when their one year old [...]

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