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A man who carries the luggage of the passengers to train compartment and takes down it from the compartment is called coolie. He is often seen in and out the railway platform in red shirt. He knows many rules and regulations of railways. He knows train numbers, their name and their arrival or departure time along with the platform numbers. If a passenger has any confusion about any train he may consult a coolie. Thus, a coolie, apart from carrying passengers' load, helps them with his knowledge about railways. The coolie belongs to a class of very poor people, who earn their livelihood by performing manual labour. He gets a  small amount for his work. The amount depends upon the weight of load, the distance and the conditions of time and place.  The railway coolie wears a particular dress. He puts on a red shirt and a yellow turban. He more...

Every country has her own national flag. It provides a distinct identity to a nation. It is the symbol of freedom and national pride. India is an independent country. She has a national flag which we are very proud of When it flies on top of a building or a flag-post, our hearts swell with great pride and nationalism. The history of our national flag is long. Freedom-fighters fought a long battle under its shadow. Many died fighting, but kept the flag high and flying. It inspired them to make great sacrifices and struggle hard for freedom. It united the people of all castes and communities in a strong national bond. Our leaders, when they first designed it, placed a spinning wheel in the centre. Later, it was replaced by the wheel of Ashok Chakra. It symbolises justice, peace and spirituality. It is deep blue in colour and has 24 more...

Named after Samuel Morse (1791-1872)—Morse code is a simple code in which letters are represented by dits and dahs. The code, which is a milestone in long- range communication, was designed so that telegraph operators could communicate via a series of electrical signals. In 1844, several years after Morse and his partner Alfred Vail had created the code. Morse demonstrated to the American Congress the power of the telegraph by using the code. To their awe, he sent the message "What hath God wrought" from Washington to Baltimore at a speed that no horse or car could hope to match. Congress was skeptical of Morse for several years before they agreed to build the Washington-Baltimore line (at the enormous cost of $30,000). Morse code took off and was soon used internationally by militaries, railroads, and businesses. The first form of radio communication was "wireless telegraphy," which involved transmitting Morse code more...

Indiscipline among students has become so rampart that people freely criticize them. Teachers accuse them for k want of respect. Parents are dissatisfied with them because H they do not get good marks in the examination and waste J time in this and that. And if we talk about the students we H see that they are angry with the authorities, they are displeased B with their teachers, their parents. Every day we read in newspaper about strikes, incidents of free fighting in B educational institutions. Sometimes, these incidents take so K ugly turn that they come under control by police only. At times it also happens that students are put behind bars due H, to their aggressive activities. What are the causes of this indiscipline? Students are H the builders of nation. They are the symbol of creativity. When they indulge in destructive acts what will be the future more...

Introduction. Every powerful nation's first motive was to visit the moon. Even since Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon on July 20, 1969 it has been a back-to-the-Moon journey. In this very age of globalization each and very powerful country is realizing that the moon is within reach. Forget the US and the previous USSR, China, India, Japan and the European Space Agency (ESA), which comprises 17 nations, are now in the race. India's first unmanned spacecraft mission to moon. India's first unmanned spacecraft mission, Chandrayaan-I, was launched on October 22 from  Sriharikota spacecraft. This spacecraft travelled in space for some days. This spacecraft is the smallest and the cheapest among all the spacecrafts sent to the moon. Successful Mission. An entirely indigenously manufactured device, the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) with the tricolor painted on it about the size of a large television set was released from the Chandrayaan-I spacecraft. more...

Discipline does not mean only training of mind and character for self-control, habit of obedience and observance of rules and laws. The aim of discipline has always been accommodation, integration and complete identification with the existing social relationship and not alienation from the organization called society.  Thousands of years ago, when human society was not organized and when our forefathers were engaged in their fierce struggle for existence against the ruthlessly hostile force, there ' was no chaos As they got familiar with the ways of nature, i they were astonished to find order everywhere-the sun rising in the east every morning, night following day, the birds singing and the plants blossoming.  There was no discordant note anywhere, nothing threatened the harmony of the nature. Without any education and training they wandered and learnt. The lessons culminated in the organization of the society which was later perfected and broadened to more...

Science has created a wonderful world for us. It has provided us with so many things which have made our life comfortable and more advanced. We are now always ahead of time. It has controlled everything. There is no field in human life without an impact of science. It has, on the one hand provided us with good things, on the other it has created some beautiful things also. While the one saves our life, the other destroys it. The field of war has not been spared. War has all along been the greatest curse upon humanity right from the dawn of history. Man has been competitive by nature. Sometime this competition has brought about quarrels and struggles which in a larger sense has sometime resulted  n fights and war between man and man, race and race and sometimes between the nations. In the beginning of our civilization wars were more...

Nothing is so popular nowadays like cinema. People can easily miss meals but they hardly miss the premier show of a film in which their favorite hero or heroine is acting. It has greatly influenced the youths of our country and there is no exaggeration if say that they have become prey to it in a way. Cinema has both the aspects. It is good as well as bad. It is a source of entertainment, according to the common concept but we can't deny the fact that it also diverts the attention of our young minds who are said to be the hope of a nation. Cinema is one of the wonderful inventions of the modern science no doubt, for it has played a great role in moulding and shaping the outlook of the people. With its advent, people have felt a new thrill of life and laughter in them. more...

There is a common saying that war is never good, peace is never bad. But if we look back into the history of mankind, it will be cleared that there have been wars since prehistoric ages. Although attempts have been made to abolish it, success has not been achieved so far. Thus, eternal peace seems to be ' beyond our reach. There are people who justify wars and say that it is necessary because it is the law of nature. They highlight their point by placing Charles Darwin at their front. It was he who established the principle of survival of the fittest. He told that there is a constant struggle for survival in all nature, both animate and inanimate. In this struggle only those will succeed who are the fittest. Thus, war is held necessary without which there will be no development of humanity. But such people forget that more...

“... a piece of work which excites the admiration of the most learned mathematicians." Cosmogrciphica Pomponii Melae (1511) Often in history one critical invention leads to another that overshadows the first. This was true of the German locksmith Peter Henlein, the inventor of the portable or pocket watch. He created this sometime between 1504 and 1508, and it could operate for up to forty hours before it needed rewinding. Henlein's work was made possible by the invention, more than fifty years earlier, of a single piece of metal that, when in a certain shape, would use the metal's natural elasticity to both absorb and release a force applied to it: the humble coiled spring. History does not recall who first created this most useful invention, but a small number of examples of spring-driven clocks have survived from the early fifteenth century. The coiled spring's ability to store energy was what more...