Twenty-five years ago, Indian cricket was redefined forever. No Indian cricket fan can forget June 25, 1983 - the day India won the World Cup at Lord's.CNN-IBN celebrates and honours the men who scripted history for Indian cricket on a special show Lords of '83.The show conducted by CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai saw the legends candidly recall the big moment - both on the field and off it. From the team's strategy to who got to drink the most champagne to who got the maximum adulation from female fans, the show revisited some of the...
Monday, 23 June 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008
The third Grand Slam of the year, Wimbledon 2008, starts from Monday but allegations of match-fixing threatens the world's premier tennis tournament.British media reports claiming a match-fixing scandal during the tournament has put a big shadow on the world's premier grass court event.An article in the Sunday Times reports that eight matches were fixed by a gambling syndicate, that included four matches from last year's singles fixtures.Each of...
Thursday, 19 June 2008
How often have you come across a Rs. 40 lakh ($100,000)silk saree?Chennai Silks, a textile unit has come up with one of its kind and it is seeking an unmistakable entry into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the most unique and expensive saree.The exceptionally stunning saree is meticulously woven with 12 precious stones and metals to depict 11 of Raja Ravi Verma's popular paintings. Explicitly projected is'Lady Musicians', one of the...
Sunday, 15 June 2008
A swimming pool on water, there’s something you don’t see every day. Called the Badeschiff (that’s German for “bathing ship”) this floating swimming pool is really just an old barge transformed into a public pool last year in Berlin, on the Spree river. Unfortunately, the river itself is much too polluted for people to swim in, so this idea, as crazy as it looks, makes some sense. It was first spotted in 2007, during a very hot Summer and during...
A swimming pool on water, there’s something you don’t see every day. Called the Badeschiff (that’s German for “bathing ship”) this floating swimming pool is really just an old barge transformed into a public pool last year in Berlin, on the Spree river. Unfortunately, the river itself is much too polluted for people to swim in, so this idea, as crazy as it looks, makes some sense. It was first spotted in 2007, during a very hot Summer and during...
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
A Kongming lantern, the oldest type of hot air balloonThis 1818 technical illustration shows early balloon designs.A model of the Montgolfier brothers balloon at the London Science Museum The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air balloon created by the Montgolfier...
Monday, 9 June 2008
They're hardly the most attractive or classy addition to the exterior of a home.So designers have come up with a satellite dish that’s less likely to incur the disapproving glances of the neighbours.Called the Sqish, it is a receiver which blends in with its surroundings.Whereas conventional dishes are round, concave and grey, the Sqish is a flat square, giving it its name.Buyers decide where they want the receiver placed on their house, take a photograph...
Coober Pedy is a place where people like to live underground.Coober Pedy is a small Australian town, famous for being the opal capital of the world because of the large quantity of opal stones that are mined here. What people don’t know about this place is that the locals mostly like to live underground. A tradition that goes back to the early 1900, when the first miners arrived in the area, cave-boring in the hillsides is still popular. The temperatures...
Thursday, 5 June 2008
The CBI team probing the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case is believed to have established that it was Aarushi who was murdered first and then Hemraj and not vice-versa as was being assumed by the investigators till now. This conclusion is based on the viscera reports, the time of death as stated in the post-mortem reports and some fingerprints and palm prints picked up from Aarushi's room, which were also found on the terrace. This particular set of fingerprints...
Monday, 2 June 2008
Dentist Rajesh Talwar, arrested by Noida police on charges of murdering his daughter Aarushi, was on Monday taken into custody for a day by the CBI for questioning even as the investigating agency found loopholes in the probe carried out by the UP police till now. CBI investigators who examined the crime scene and questioned witnesses pointed that the UP police had not picked blood samples or the finger prints properly from the crime scene. Senior...
Pope Benedict says that the controversial Shroud of Turin is going back on display in 2010. Many believe that the Shroud was the burial cloth for Jesus Christ. The last time the Shroud was put on public display was for the Catholic jubilee year in 2000. The cloth measuring 4.4 by 1.2 meters (14.5 by 3.9 feet), bears the inexplicable image — eerily reversed like a photographic negative — of a crucified man. The cloth shows the back and front of a...
1.The Origin of SpeciesWhen Charles Darwin's book went on sale to the trade on November 22, 1859 the stock of 1,250 copies was oversubscribed.His theory: Evolution was by natural selection, not a divine process.The most enthusiastic response came from radical atheists, who hailed Darwin as "the greatest revolutionist in natural history of this century" but clerics were pained at his theory which entirely ruled out divine intervention and destroyed...
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