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Dolphin, India's national aquatic animal

The Centre has declared dolphins a national aquatic animal in order to save the rare freshwater species from disappearing from the country's aqua map."Like we have tiger as a national animal and......

Bihar: Endangered Indian dolphin on the road to recovery

The population of the endangered Gangetic river dolphin is on the rise at the Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary, India's only dolphin sanctuary, located inBihar. Itwas revealed by a latest......

PM's talk on restoring Ganga promises nothing: Expert

Expressing displeasure at the prime minister's speech on the issue of the Ganga river basin, Himanshu Thakkar says that such sermons from the Centre have come and gone hundreds of times without......

IN PHOTOS: Five terrorists US wants from Pakistan

The United States has drawn up a list of five terrorists, including Ilyas Kashmiri who has been linked to the Mumbai attacks, it expects Pakistan to provide intelligence about immediately and......

Interview/Strategic guru K Subrahmanyam

In July 2008, Shivanand Kanavi had a long conversation with strategic guru K Subrahmanyam on a variety of strategic and geo-political issues -- India's nuclear weapon programme, the India-US......

Sethusamudram controversy back in the spotlight

There seems to be no end to the 16-year-old war over the controversial Sethusamudram project. The project involves dredging the stretch of water between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka to make it......

ArcelorMittal Orbit: An architectural wonder

An amazing architectural masterpiece, 'ArcelorMittal Orbit' is a 115 metres (377 ft) high observation tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London.The stunning steel sculpture is situated between......

Will Puttaparthi's economy survive Sai Baba's death?

"Puttaparthi will become super Shirdi. People will start coming more frequently and in greater numbers. Just wait and watch," a senior Railways official in the Capital and ardent Sai Baba follower......

Sensex sheds 546 points to close below 18K

In the steepest single day fall in 18 months, Sensex plunged 546 points to 17,632.41 as investors dumped stocks on concerns over shooting oil prices due to unrest in the Middle East and......

Why we should take the Internet seriously

Going by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India data, more than 56 per cent of the 83 million Internet users in India are now on broadband. That means they access their Net through a fat......

Pix: South stars hot up 2011 calendar

Southscope magazine treated us to some great pictures of Southern stars on their 2011 calendar. Here's a look at some of them: Shriya Saran The beautiful Shriya has acted in many languages......

Check out this Tamil cowboy!

Chimbudevan's Irumbukottai Murattu Singam is one film that has created a lot of curiosity this summer as it was after many decades that a cowboy film is releasing in Tamil. But what surprised......

Naga Chaitanya's love story

Naga Chaitanya boasts of an impressive pedigree. After all his grandfather is thespian Akkineni Nageswara Rao while his father is superstar Nagarjuna. Naturally expectations were high when the......

Meet the men who want to marry Rakhi Sawant

Rakhi Sawant has men pouring in from all over India, wanting to marry her live on television, in her upcoming show, Rakhi Ka Swayamvara. And Rakhi has quite a varied choice -- from a policeman in......

The Fockers lead US box-office

Disregarding critics, fans across North America warmly embraced Meet The Fockers leading to a dynamite Christmas weekend of an estimated $44.7 million. The top movie of the week, featuring Robert......

Water wonder Phelps's mystique shattered by Lochte

The crowd at the Olympic Aquatics Centre arrived late, as if they were trying to stall off the inevitable. Anyone with a prized ticket to the first big showdown of the London Games had to know......

China takes first gold of Olympic diving test event

London's striking new Olympic Aquatics Centre hosted its first day of competitive action on Monday with China's dominant divers predictably striking gold in a World Cup event chosen to test the......

Cost of London 2012 aquatics venue rises

The cost of the 2012 Olympic aquatics centre has risen, but savings made elsewhere could see a final overall budget underspend of up to 500 million pounds ($807.9 million), government figures......

Olympics: Timetable of events for August 10

Olympic timetable of events for Sunday, August 10 (all times IST)SWIMMING, National Aquatics Centre:From 0730: Men's 400m individual medley final; Women's 100m butterfly semi-final; Men's 400m......

Olympics: Timetable of events for August 9

Olympic timetable of events for Saturday, August 9:SWIMMING, National Aquatics Centre 1530 Men's 400m individual medley heats1631 Women's 100m butterfly heats 1758 Men's 400m freestyle heats 1751......

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Q. what is meant by biodiversity?
Monicasai: A. more

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Q. Which iconic building was designed for the games by acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid ?
Anitha: A. Biodiversity is the variety and differences among living organisms from all sources, including terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems...... more

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Q. Blue revolution is related to what?
Anitha: A. Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, the Blue Revolution a decade later was supposed to increase global food production miraculously and stave...... more

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Q. full form of TAC
Padmanabhan: A. Transaction Authorisation CodeTriangle Aquatic CentreTexas Affiliate Camp more

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Q. places to visit in hydrabad
Vishal Garg: A. Charminar - the major landmark in Hyderabad with four graceful minarets. Falaknuma Palace - Built by an Italian architect through one of the Paigah...... more

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Govt spikes dolphinarium plans

The Centre has prohibited setting up of dolphinariums, large aquariums housing dolphins, nipping in the bud plans for four dolphin parks in states... ...

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/333273/govt-spikes-dolphinarium-plans.html

Green Tribunal

The writer has posted comments on this article TNN | May 18, 2013, 03.19 AM IST RELATED NGT ) has directed the state government to take measures to... ...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/Stop-discharge-of-effluent-to-Upper-Lake-Green-Tribunal/articleshow/20115121.cms

BMO Donates $750,000 to Vancouver Aquarium

BMO joins in the fight for conservation as Vancouver Aquarium's newest community partner in support of the Aquarium's $100-million expansion and... ...

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Vacation camp at Kariavattom

The Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (DCB), Kerala University, in association with a few other departments on the Kariavattom... ...

http://newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Vacation-camp-at-Kariavattom/2013/05/17/article1593287.ece

Vijayanagar residents oppose waste segregation plant inside park

After Banashankari residents, it is the turn of people in Vijayanagar to oppose the construction of the waste segregation plant inside the park in... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/vijayanagar-residents-oppose-waste-segregation-plant-inside-park/article4723725.ece

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