Sampathkumar Sampath

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• French Elections - Macron Beats Le Pen

  

  Are polls won by Campaign managers ? and strategies ?? When this candidate rolled out his presidential campaign nearly six months ago, he came to a... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Who Put the Sand on Beach ? - a Beach Washed Away Reappears After 33 Years !!

  

  Summer is at its peak ~ the day temperatures are high and more people throng the shores of Marina beach to have some respite from sweltering weather. The... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Travelling Thousands of Miles the Wrong Way ! Mistake of Air Carrier

  

  Air travel is expensive yet the market is getting hotter. Search for an international flight and you'll be offered myriad options via Europe, the Middle East an... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Enterprise Act 2016 ~ Insurers Will Have to Pay for Delay (in UK)

  

  Enactments get refined with passage of time. A Govt. Press release states that the UK’s 5.4 million businesses are set to benefit as the Enterprise Bill receive... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Saahore Bahubali ~ Insurable Risks ~ Bahubali, the Conclusion !!

  

  Insurers take care of risks ~ not all risks are insurable. Ideally, some basic criteria of risks being definite, financially measurable, not too unique posing... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 SOCIETY

• MV Rangatira Stranded in Timaru for 2 Years Ordered to Be Sold !!

  

  The name sounding more of a South Indian name attracted me, it eventually turned out to have no connection at all ! Timaru is a port city in the southern... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Hoof of Famous Horse Marengo Found After Almost 2 Centuries !!

  

  It had been languishing in a plastic bag at the back of a kitchen drawer in a Somerset farmhouse once owned by the wealthy family and dates back to 1815 !!... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 SOCIETY

• EU Migrant Crisis ~Chinese to Blame Says EU Commissioner for Migration !!

  

  Dimitris Avramopoulos is a Greek politician of the conservative New Democracy party, and former career diplomat,in news now. After serving various high-level... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Remembering the Revolutionary Pritilata Waddedar

  

  Remember that there was a scene in Rajnikant starrer Maaveeran, where a British soldier would like natives to dogs and would say that both dogs and natives are... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Banganapalli Mango Gets GI Tag : பங்கனப்பள்ளி மாம்பழம்

  

  ** பெரிய மாக்கனி, பலாக்கனி,... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Rahul Tripathi's Rains Boundaries; Puyol to Launch Sales & Kheleo ??

  

  Engrossed in IPL ? - do you know or heard of ‘Kheleo’ (what ?) or Carles Puyol set to launch ticket sales ?? (honestly I read about them just now !! Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Dazzling Headlights ~ Dumb Deer ! Older You Are, More Changes You Get !!

  

  The phrase – ‘be like a deer caught in the headlights’ – would mean : to be so frightened or surprised that one cannot move or think. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Which Font Do You Use ?? ~ Dubai Becomes First City to Have Its Own Font

  

  Do you know what groups : Aabohi, Amudham, Anangu, Bamini, Boopalam, Eelanadu, Jaffna, Kalki, Kalaimakal, Keeravani, Kilavi, Nagananthini, Azhagi, .. .. .. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Fail Fast, Fail Often ~ Experiments Do Fail; Thermocol Puts TN Minister in Meme...

  

  In 1941, researchers in Dow's Chemical Physics Lab found a way to make foamed polystyrene. Led by Ray McIntire, they rediscovered a method first used by... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2017 SOCIETY

• Cassini Begins Its Final Dive - in & out of Saturn's Rings !!

  

  If you live away from a City or visit a village, the great opportunity is ‘star gazing’ in the night – away from city light refractions, you can easily spot mor... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2017 SOCIETY

• RCB : Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, AB De Villiers ~ All out for 49 in 9.4 Overs !!

  

  7 0 1 8 9 8 2 0 2 5 0 7 ~ and this entry of Umpires did not look any innovative to me ! The game of Cricket has undergone many and varied changes since its... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 SOCIETY

• Haryana Impersonated Alleges Anju George ~ 14th National Youth Athletics...

  

  In Big bash league, in the commentary box, former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds tried impersonating the Yorkshire accent of former England batsman... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 SOCIETY

• Vistadome Coach at Araku Valley ! - Kilimanjaro Machu Picchu ..

  

  The Incas were brutally conquered in the 16th century by the Spanish, who made Peru one of the capitals of their empire, and sent a steady stream of gold and... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 SOCIETY

• Elephant Calf Comes Calling Home .. .. ....

  

  ‘depredation’ ~ (noun) would mean an act of attacking or plundering. This word is often associated with the ravage/ raid and resultant damage caused by... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2017 SOCIETY

• Famous Jeweller of Dehradun Sentenced for Holding Bank Account in Swiss !!

  

  In early 2011, several reports Indian media alleged Swiss Bankers Association officials to have said that the largest depositors of illegal foreign money in... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2017 SOCIETY