‘Handling the ball’ and ‘obstructing the field’ are two bizarre and extremely uncommon ways of getting out. Mohinder Amarnath is the only batsman in the world to have been dismissed in both the fashions in one-day internationals. Handling the Ball – 1986 Tri-series (India-Australia-New Zealand) second match of best of three finals against Australia. Obstructing …
Tagore’s famous poem Bharattirtha is a reflection of his spirit of harmony of religions, caste and creed. In Bharattirtha, Tagore describes India as a pilgrimage where people from different parts of the globe have congregated and settled down. When it was first published in the Pravasi Patrika, it was named Matree-Abhishek (adoring the mother). Later the name was changed to Bharattirtha. He said …
The last wireless message from the sinking Titanic on 15 April 1912 was ‘SOS SOS CQD CQD Titanic’. ‘We are sinking fast. Passengers are being put into boats. Titanic’.
The James Webb Space telescope is a space telescope scheduled to be launched this decade. It has been designed to study the first formed galaxies. It would be able to see objects lying up to 1.5 × 106 km away from the earth. A sun shield will protect the telescope from the heat of the …
K. Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam, premiered in April 2006 in Lahore broke the five-decade long ban on screening of Indian films in Pakistan. The movie is based on the doomed love story of the Mughal prince Salim (Jahangir) and Anarkali, a slave girl in the palace.
From 1978–1988, an image of Isaac Newton designed by Harry Eccleston appeared on Series D £1 banknotes issued by the Bank of England. Newton was shown on the reverse of the notes holding a book and along with that a telescope, a model of the solar system and a prism were also seen.
