Sampathkumar Sampath

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• Remington Files Chap 11 Bankruptcy !

  

  In good old days, in Tamil movies, a rich man would suffer a great set back (mostly with the ship carrying his stock sinking ! Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Salute to Those Great Martyrs Who Fought for Our Freedom ~ Gopinath Saha

  

  Indian history has a cliché ~ Gandhi got us freedom; Indian freedom was gotten without spilling blood. Far away from truth – for there were thousands of... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Chipko Movement is Google Doodle of the Day

  

  Most days start with our search on Google on Bancroft’s sandpaper episode or something else .. .. .. today read that - originally expected to last just two... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Aussie Pride-fade Moment ! Loses Test by 322 After Ball Tampering Incident

  

  Read the word ‘Schadenfreude’ meaning the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures,... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Cameron Bancroft Admits Ball-tampering ~ and Did Steve Smith Knew It ??

  

  In Cricket – shortleg is a specialist position, yet it is an unwritten rule that the man donning that position would be the junior in the team or the opener ! .... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Afghan Qualifies ~ Stuie Broad Takes 400; Morne Morkel 300 ..

  

  At Auckland – England had the ignominy of being bowled out for paltry 58 – yet there was something to succor .. Stuart Broad becoming the youngest fast bowler t... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Remembering Martyrs : Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar & Shivaram Rajguru

  

  A bomb was thrown "to make the deaf hear and to give the headless a timely warning" ~ the perpetrators did not run away – but like our own Veera Vanchinathan,... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Parliament Passes Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill 2018

  

  ‘Gratuity’ ~ the dictionary meaning is : a tip given to a waiter, taxi driver, etc. It also means : sum of money paid to an employee at the end of a period of... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Boult and Southee Skittle out England for 58 - Auckland Test

  

  In 8 balls Dinesh Karthik’s career has changed ~ now perhaps he has more fans than ever before ! ~ Test Cricket is no slambang – no T20 this, yet .. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Google Honours Woman Researcher on Radioactivity on Seawater with a Doodle

  

  Most days begin with Google and today Google is honouring a woman scientist who did pioneering work in her field – and then inspired many more like herself to d... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Human Error and Rain Intervention Sees WI Qualify !!!

  

  Scotland were 105-4 in the 32nd over when Windies off-spinner Ashley Nurse rapped Berrington's pads and umpire Paul Wilson raised his finger after lengthy... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Pitiful End to the Escaped Animals of Tbilis Zoo ~ White Tiger Shot at and Killed

  

  The white tiger is a pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger. Rewa was a Princely State, famous for its white tigers, the first one, nicknamed Mohan, was caugh... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2018 SOCIETY

• the Button-less Lifts of South Glasgow Univ Hospital

  

  The South Glasgow University Hospital is one of the biggest critical care complexes in Europe. It is nicknamed the "Death Star" by locals because of its imposin... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Kumbakonam Tragedy and Attempt to Make Money out of Misery

  

  That gory incident took place on 16 July 2004 in a Middle School around 10 am when the noon meal was being prepared in the school kitchen that had a thatched... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Law of Triviality ~ Difference Between Big and Small Crime !!

  

  Punjab National Bank (PNB) was at the centre of a $1.8 billion fraud - one of the largest to be detected across the Indian banking sector. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Dinesh Karthik Changes Fortune with a Great Cameo and Last Ball Sixer

  

  Not many may be remembering that 3rd ODI against England at London in Sept 2004 which India won by 23 runs and Sourav Ganguly was the man of the match. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Reading the Glory of West Indies in Cricket ~ Loses to Afghan - Nepal Gets ODI...

  

  In social media - Anwar ali smashing Wahab riaz for a 6 but getting out too in PPL was circulated .. .. that brought in remembrances of the final of World Cup... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Australia Mulls Fast-track Visas for White South African Farmers

  

  Every heard of the Lancaster House Agreement, signed on 21 Decr 1979 ~ the agreement that covered the Independence Constitution, pre-independence arrangements... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Pi Day ~ and Celebrating the Birth Day of Albert Einstein

  

  There are days and there is today ~ 14th of March .. .. ! - have never read about Ulm, a city in the federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Volatile Oil Trade ~ Venezuela Mulls Oil Trade with India in Rupees

  

  Crude oil is a naturally occurring, unrefined petroleum product composed of hydrocarbon deposits and other organic materials. A type of fossil fuel, crude oil... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2018 SOCIETY