Sampathkumar Sampath

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• SS City of Cairo Sunk in 1942 - Salvaged with Tons of Indian Coins !!!!

  

  SS City of Cairo was a British passenger steamship. She was sunk in the Second World War with heavy loss of life. She was built by Earle’s Shipbuilding ... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Aams of Valsad - Guarded by Pathans on Horses !!

  

  Summer is the time of delicious mango season. Mango is a fruit that has enriched literature. So many stories, real as well as apocryphal, are associated with... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Polish Woman Monika Tano Matches Duchess Kate's Delivery !

  

  Monika Tano, 35, welcomed her third child yesterday shortly before 2am on 2nd May 2015 – the Polish national gave birth at her home in Birmingham to a baby... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Google Doodle Celebrates 'around the World in 72 Days' Nellie Bly

  

  In 1880, Cochrane and her family moved to Pittsburgh. An aggressively misogynistic column entitled "What Girls Are Good For" in the Pittsburgh Dispatch... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Fight of the Century - Floyd Mayweather Beats Manny Pacquiao

  

  To some of us, reference to ‘boxing’ is about the Melbourne Test and in some ways that legendary match in which Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston to become... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Bio-hacking ..... Implant of NFC - Technology Hackers !!

  

  In olden movies – secrets of the company [say the value of quotation] would be stolen through the Secretary / typist – in some movies, the smart ones would... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Proxying in Exam ~ Unheralded 19 Year Old Used Electronics to Defeat Pravin...

  

  Today’s Times of India reports that 3 men from Bihar, who wrote a recruitment examination for Heavy Vehicles Factory at Avadi in March, were arrested on... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 SOCIETY

• New Gender Neutral Title 'Mx' is to Join the Honorifics 'Mr, Mrs, Miss and Ms'...

  

  Mrs? Or is that Ms, Miss? - Getting married? What do you call yourself now? - some years back, there was this article in BBC news at a time when the European... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Splendor iSmart Launch ~ Honda / Hero MotoCorp Spat Over 'fuel Efficiency'

  

  Hero MotoCorp, on Thursday, launched its all-new Splendor iSmart bike, equipped with stop-and-start i3S technology, priced at Rs.47,250 (ex-showroom Delhi). Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Digital Daisy ~ the Cow with Bar Code !!!

  

  Stray cattle still roam in Triplicane, despite the new arrangement – hope that over the period of time, this too will settle down. Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Rescued Animals and Their Plight ~wild Animals on Sale at Mexico

  

  Some acts of humans are barbaric and cruel ! – one is keeping pet animals and birds in small cages – sad that some are genetically modified to look good inside... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Total Loss Claim of Automobile ~how Easy It is for the Policy Holder ?!?

  

  Insurance in Western World is advanced, especially in Europe, specifically UK – there so much of technology in use – settlements are made faster and policy... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Zoo in a Suitcase ~ Seizure at Domodedovo Airport - Greed of Man !!

  

  Domodedovo is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 37 kilometers (23 mi) south of Moscow. Domodedovo was founded in 1900 and reportedly named d after a... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 SOCIETY

• is Ajahn Siripanno ~ the Modern Age Buddha !!

  

  Prince Siddhattha , son of King Suddhodana –was nurtured luxuriously and indulged in all sensual pleasures. At a young age he married Princess Yasodhara. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Flood Insurance - Revolutionary Jacks That Lift the Property Automatically !!

  

  In India, coverage against ‘fire peril’is under Standard Fire Policy. Contrary to common belief, a Fire insurance policy offers indemnity not only against fire... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2015 SOCIETY

• the Roller-blading President ..... Education in Finland !

  

  Education has changed ! – in every pantry, anxious mothers [parents !] speak of putting their wards in institutions of fame, enlist them in various support... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Nepal Earthquake Relief - Op Maitri and Insensitive Beef Masala

  

  25th April became a very sad day for the Himalayan Nation as tremors occurred at 11:56 NST with a moment magnitude (Mw) of sub 9 and a maximum Mercalli Intensit... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Bali Nine ~ Veloso Escapes Execution at Last Moment.... Philippines's Eligible...

  

  ‘Bali Nine’ is the name given to a group of nine Australians convicted for smuggling 8.3 kg (18 lb) of heroin valued at around A$4 million from Indonesia to... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 SOCIETY

• India Hikes Import on Sugar ~ Scraps Excise Duty on Ethanol Made from Molasses

  

  For most South Indians, day starts with a tumbler of ‘coffee’ – the concoction of coffee beans decoction, milk and …… sugar ~ ‘the sweet thing’. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 SOCIETY

• Madurai - Vaigai ~ Albert Victor Bridge and Viceroy Earl of Dufferin

  

  Indian Trains have Names besides the Numbers. As you would know, Trains now have 5 digit numbers – earlier they were 4 digits. Many a trains are named after... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2015 SOCIETY