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International aviation body to honor Rakesh Sharma

Rakesh Sharma, India's first and the only cosmonaut, will join a select group of Indians when the International Forest of Friendship honors the retired Indian Air Force Wing Commander in Kansas......

Indian American bags 'Junior Nobel' scholarship

Indian American Ryna Karnik has bagged the third place and a $50,000 scholarship in the Intel Science Talent Search, often dubbed the 'Junior Nobel Prize'.The 17-year-old is a student of the Oregon......

Negi wins Philadelphia Open

Teen Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi proved his extraordinary chess skills by winning the Philadelphia International Open tournament, beating illustrious names including GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly.Negi......

Fossett completes global solo flight

Adventurer Steve Fossett has become the first person to make a non-stop, solo flight around the world without refuelling, landing in Kansas after nearly three days in the air.His single-engine......

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Q. 9. Who was credited as the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a solo flight non-stop? a. Amelia Earnhardt b. Chuck Yeager c. Orville Wright d. Charles Lindbergh
: A. . Charles Lindbergh more

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Q. Best Movie 0f Sam Shepard ?
Srini: A. Shepard began his acting career in earnest when he was cast as the handsome land baron in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), opposite Richard...... more

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Q. Which was the frst aircraft to cross the sound barrier?
Lost Singh: A. The first man to break the "sound barrier" was Capt. Charles E. Yeager, better known as Chuck Yeager, of the US Air Force. He reached...... more

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Q. Who was the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound?
ANURADHA PATHAKJ: A. Captain (later colonel) Charles "Chuck" Yeager flew the Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound to become the first pilot to do so....... more

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Q. What was the first man-made object to move faster than the speed of sound?
Jayakrishnan: A. This was a plane, which was able to travel faster than the speed of sound. The most notable breaking of the sound barrier (going faster than the...... more

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16 deadly tornadoes tear through Texas, six killed

Granbury: Habitat for Humanity spent years in a North Texas subdivision, helping build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area. But its work... ...

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BHP Mr Mackenzie has long to do list

And so it begins. Mr Andrew Mackenzie's long wait to run a multinational corporation finally came to an end at a hot and dusty iron ore mine in... ...

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US supersonic ace Chuck Yeager flew with Pakistan in 1971 war against India, Nixon threatened India Gandhi with nukes

US Air Force WW II ace and test pilot General Chuck Yeager, the first man to fly supersonic has admitted on his facebook page that he flew with... ...

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BHP new boss cuts his salary and ousts rivals

Independent reported that Mr Andrew Mackenzie BHP's incoming CEO has begun with a bang cutting his own expected salary by a quarter and ousting the... ...

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