Airport terminal, one of India’s finest museums India’s latest and largest museum, which may well become the ‘most visited’ in the world, is actually Mumbai’s new airport terminal, T2. ‘Jaya He’, as the museum is called, greets visitors coming to or going from India on...
Unique museum of police wireless sets. GSM and telephone networks can get jammed at the most crucial times, as they did during the 2011 serial blasts in Mumbai. During such times, the police have to resort to their wireless networks. To highlight the important role...
Smuggling wares on display at Alfandega, Goa Housed in the Blue Building, a heritage structure built-in 1800 in Panaji, Goa, is the first Customs and Excise Museum in India. The two-story building got its ‘blue’name from indigo, the dye the Portuguese traded in from here....
End of the telegram era in India After 163 years of acting as a messenger of good and bad news, the Indian Telegram Service came to a stop on July 15, 2013. All over the country, there was a rush to send off the ‘last’...
Do you know “Pune supercomputers among world’s fastest”? At the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference held in Leipzig, Germany, on June 18, 2013, a list of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers was announced. Two of Pune’s supercomputers, ranked 36th and 69th, feature in the top 100....
Hi-tech solar kitchen in Shirdi Shirdi’s famed Baba dressed and lived as a simple fakir (mendicant). He never told anyone his name, so his followers referred to him as Sai Baba. The fire he lit to cook a meal for his devotees still burns and...
How Big Is Our Universe? To conceive an actual picture of the size and magnitude of the universe is not possible for the human mind. We are unaware of its size. To imagine even, as to how big it might be, is quite hard. We...
Which was the biggest carnivore? The biggest carnivore was the dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was over 5 metres in height and 14 metres tall. Its head alone was more than a metre in length. It could swallow a human being whole by opening its mouth...
When did the Red Cross start? It was at the initiative of Henri Dunant, a Swiss national, that the Red Cross was formed. After seeing the carnage of war during the battle of Solferino in June 1859, Dunant wrote a pamphlet about the horrors he...
What is the caste system? The caste system is found in Indi It divides people into five social classes. At the top are the Brahmins or priestly caste. Next come the kshatriyas or warriors and earthly rulers. The vaisyas, merchants and artisans, come third. Sudras...
