Sampathkumar Sampath

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• South Sudan Crisis ..... Thousands Die in Civil War ...

  In July 2011 was born a new country – forthose people of Juba and areas surrounding it, 9th July 2011 was to be a historic date. For the newly born Republic of... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Helmet Rule Implemented in Chennai ...... but !!

  

  From 1st July 2015 - Two-wheeler riders wearing helmets has become compulsory in Tamil Nadu with police booking as many as 1,008 cases in Chennai city besides... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Pepper, the Personal Robot .... Artificial Intelligence !!

  

  The Rajnikanth starrer ‘Enthiran’ kept the audience glued thanks to its storyline – all credit to Sujatha, the great writer and the director Shankar. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Greece Crisis .....PM Tsipras Proposes Higher Taxes and Pension Cuts

  

  Nice way of coming to Office, one may think – and this person is no ordinary man ! Greece is in trouble. The Greek government-debt crisis started in late 2009,... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Landslides Kill Scores of People in Darjeeling

  

  A landslide is the movement of rock, debris or earth down a slope. They result from the failure of the materials which make up the hill slope and are driven by... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Debt and Financial Crisis of Greece and Puerto Rico

  

  Puerto Rico, literally the "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico, is a United States territorylocated in the north eastern Caribbean. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Indian Team for Zimbabwe ~ Aussie and New Zealand to Play Night TEst

  

  A cricket ball is not a perfect sphere. The seam of the ball is the circular stitching which joins the two halves of the cricket ball. Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Pregnant Woman Friendly "WiFi" of Qihoo 360 ~ Xiaomi Objects !

  VSNL, Dishnet, Now ISP, Mantra Online – one may not remember or know them now …. They were the service providers for Dial-up connections, widely used a decade... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Tiny Marshall Islands Take India to International Court of Justice

  In Oct 2011, the Govt. declared an area covering nearly 2,000,000 square kilometres (772,000 sq mi) of ocean shall be reserved as a shark sanctuary, making it... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 SOCIETY

• Today, June 30th is Special - It Has 86401 Seconds - the Leap Second Extra !!

  A day has 24 hours – each hour has 60 minutes – each minute has 60 seconds – after 23:59:59 everyday, another day starts - but today 30th June after 23:59:59... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 SOCIETY

• Chennai Metro Chugs off .... Driven by a Female Driver

  

  29th June 2015 – a momentous day for Chennai - we have been reading about ‘Chennai Metro’ - rapid transit system for too long and it has become a reality today. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 SOCIETY

• Sri Lanka Needs 153 at P Sara Stadium and ....... Sanga to Retire !!

  

  How much do you heed to your father’s advice ? You may call it revision or tampering – in a move to give bowlers a bit of breathing room in 50-overs cricket, th... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2015 SOCIETY

• India Beats Bangla at Last .... News from Vidarbha

  

  On the longest day of the year — the summer solstice, June 21 — International Yoga Day celebrations swept nearly 200 countries - people gathered in large number... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 SOCIETY

• Gmail Adds 'Undo Send' Button ... Google Removes Support for 'emojis'

  

  Have you ever experienced this ….. you respond to some e-mail communication, commenting on the ignorance or the mistake of the sender [who is an important perso... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 SOCIETY

• Bedi Says Captain Cool MSD Requires Yoga ~ Bangladesh Fans Lose Cool - Behave...

  

  On the longest day of the year — the summer solstice, June 21 — International Yoga Day celebrations swept nearly 200 countries, as those in the Northern... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 SOCIETY

• Helmet Compulsory in Tamil Nadu ..... Chaos in Chennai

  

  See this photo and guess the reason for the traffic jam. This is an article circulated to my friends on 1st June 2007… recirculated in 2o11 ! Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 SOCIETY

• Blue Mormon Becomes the State Butterfly of Maharashtra

  

  Heard of - Papiliopolymnestor ?- ‘Thikkutheiryathakattilunnaithedialainthen’ is one of the many songs of the great Tamil Poet SubrahmanyaBharathiyar. Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 SOCIETY

• Andy Murray and His Support Staff Ready for Wimbledon ~ UK Waits !!

  

  Come June and 1st week of July – we will be reading all about Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 SOCIETY

• India's Twin Loss at Bangladesh Makes Fan Melancholic !!!

  

  Indian Cricket fan feels badly let down …. Not that losses are new to us – we have seen may downs than Ups - yet this loss at Mirpur hurts… When the Team was... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2015 SOCIETY

• Women in Forbes List for 4th Consecutive Year Sheryl Sandberg Talks About...

  

  In 2010, Sheryl Sandberg, gave a TED talk about women in the boardroom. They were too small in number because they faltered on the way there. Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2015 SOCIETY