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India’s foray into passenger plane manufacturing.. India has taken a decisive step to enter this field, where only a handful of players exist, as of now. HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited), a wholly-owned government undertaking, has signed an agreement with Russia’s UAC to produce SJ100 passenger … Read more
Kathmandu Para 1.. Vikram Seth has a pronounced wanderlust that has taken him to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. His uncle … Read more
China’s success in indigenous passenger aircraft manufacturing falters due to geo-political turmoil China has made impressive strides towards producing its own passenger jet that could make it a potential competitor to Airbus and Boeing in the next decade. Its state-owned company COMAC has been able … Read more
With ominous funk, Jamaica braces for the approaching Melissa Hurricane Melissa is going to be the deadliest storm in Jamaica’s recorded history of natural disasters. Now, meteorologists say that since 1851, a storm of such ferocity has never happened in the island. Melissa’s fury is … Read more
A Legend of Northland by Phoebe Cary Stanza 1.. Away, away in the Northland, Where the hours of the day are few, And the nights are so long in winter That they cannot sleep them through; Explanation .. The story is set in a … Read more
No Men are Foreign Have you ever thought of some people as strange, or other countries as ‘foreign’? We have many ways of thinking of other people as different from ‘us’, as ‘them.’ ‘They’ may belong to a different country, or speak a different language. … Read more
On Killing a Tree Stanza.. 1 .. It takes much time to kill a tree, Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it. It has grown Slowly consuming the earth, … Read more
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Rain fury causes massive damage in Kerala’s Idukki (This news item cited in part here appeared in The Hindu dated October 19.) Water level in Mullaperiyar dam rises overnight, prompting Tamil Nadu. to open all 13 shutters; flash floods and landslips were reported at many … Read more