Fast track English skill building exercises -2 (With answers)

Q1. Writing differently. A sentence is given below. The judge awarded the convict death sentence to the murder convict. Write the above sentence in different ways using each of the following words separately. 1. Gallows  2. Execution   3. Hang  4. Capital punishment ——————————————————————- Q2. … Read more

Fast track English skill building exercise -1- (With answers)

Q1.  Writing sentences differently.  Original sentence… In the Tibet earthquake 130 people died. This sentence can be written in different ways by using these words. Toll Perished Fatalities Write your three different sentences using each of the above words. ———————————- Answer .. 1. The death … Read more

Writing skill and Current Affairs -1

Exercises to improve your writing skills and Current Affairs. (Sourced from CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East) Join the following small sentences to form a single sentence. Palestinian Alaa Al-Shawish is trying to fetch some clean water for her family. It’s very cold in Gaza … Read more

Toba Tek Singh

Toba Tek Singh Two or three years after Partition, the governments of Pakistan and India decided to exchange lunatics in the same way that they had exchanged civilian prisoners. In other words, Muslim lunatics in Indian madhouses would be sent to Pakistan, while Hindu and … Read more

Knowledge enhancer -1 .. for all readers young and old

Cargo carrier structurally stable and operational after fire: Coast Guard Indian Coast Guard carries out fire-fighting operations on m.v. Maersk Frankfurt off Goa coast.PTI THE HINDU BUREAU     NEW DELHI The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has deployed five ships, two helicopters, and one Dornier aircraft … Read more

Essay writing — For CS and Journalism students

Tourism surge creates worldwide backlash but Afghanistan benefits: Lessons for India      Droves of tourists have descended descend on tourism hotspots around the world changing the perception about tourism from positive to negative. Afghanistan cleverly has trodden an opposite path. The story needs an … Read more

Feature writing –Why China surges ahead and India lags in Science, compared to the U.S

China’s long strides in science leaves the U.S. in unease, while India flounders in its efforts to draw level After a period of stubborn denial, America now concedes that its rival China has done close to it in many areas of science and technology. The … Read more