Suryapet: Usually, salaried people look to holidays for spending time with families or recreation. But, this government teacher uses his holidays visiting shops to collect old books for his library. Sheela Avilenu’s addiction to collecting books made him to develop a library in his house at Suryapet. The first Telugu detective novel ‘Nene’ written by Devaraju Venkata Krishna Rao and …
The European Space Agency's Mars Express has captured stunning images of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System revealing the dramatic surroundings and turbulent past of this Martian giant. Olympus Mons, first identified by Nasa's Mariner 9 spacecraft in 1971, is a shield volcano towering at a height of 21.9 km, making it two and a half times …
Berhampur ITI: Students of the government-run ITI here have built a six-feet-high statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose using automobile scraps after making one of Mahatma Gandhi. Statue made of scrap Electric fan bearings, motorcycle chains, nuts and bolts, gears, iron rods and other scrap materials were used to make the statue, The ITI principal Rajat Kumar Panigrahi said. Around …
NEET 2021: President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, Nana Patole has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asking him to scrap the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for the state-based students as well. This wave to scarp NEET exam was raised after Tamil Nadu recently passed a bill in the Assembly seeking exemption of state-based students from …
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