Jermain Defoe has made a habit of coming off the bench and scoring ever since Fabio Capello took over as England coach, showing himself to be one of the country’s finest finishers. The diminutive forward was omitted from Sven-Goran Eriksson’s final squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany but has been a regular face in the England ranks …

बहुत वर्ष पहले एक छोटे – से गाँव में एक गरीब, मगर भला ब्राह्मण रहता था। वह देवी का परम भक्त था और नित्य ही दुर्गा का नाम 108 बार लिखे बिना अन्न – जल कुछ भी ग्रहण नही करता था। सम्पन्न परिवारों में शादी – ब्याह या फिर अंतिम संस्कार करवाना ही उसकी जीविका का एकमात्र साधन था। परन्तु रोज …

Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12th 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His family had acquired a 250,000 acre ranch in Cotulla, where Bezos spent most of his childhood summers working with his grandfather. At a young age Bezos started displaying his interests when he converted his parents’ garage into a laboratory for his science projects. The Bezos family …

Jeff Skoll (Jeffrey Skoll) Order of Canada (born January 16, 1965) is a Canadian born engineer and internet entrepreneur who lives in Los Angeles, California. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.2 billion (as of March 2011), Skoll was ranked by Forbes as the 7th wealthiest Canadian and 347th in the world. He was the first employee and also …

Jeev Milkha Singh (born 15 December 1971) is the first Indian golfer to become a member of the European Tour. He is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world and first broke into the top 100 in October 2006. Early life Singh was born in Chandigarh, India, the son of the Indian Olympic athlete Milkha Singh. His mother is …

Jayanta Talukdar is an Indian Archer, and one of the most promising players of the sport in the nation. He picked up the game not much ago, still with his sharp skills and in-born talent for Archery, he’s rose on to become on of the most bright stars of Archery, and generates a lot of hopes in the eyes of …

Javed Abidi is the director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India, and the founder of the Disability Rights Group. He received an education in journalism and communication at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He set up the disability wing of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation in India, after being invited to do …

Jatin Das was an Indian painter and sculptor. Jatin Das was born in December 1941 in Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India. He studied at the Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay, under Professor S.B. Palsikar. His term at the school lasted for a period of five years, from 1957 to 1962. Thereafter, he started participating in the art exhibitions, both at the national as well …

शामलाल बेहद संत स्वभाव और धार्मिक वृत्ति का व्यक्ति था। पेशे से वह नाई था। सामाजिक व्यवस्था में तब नाई छोटी जाति के माने जानते थे। शामलाल मानता था कि नीची जाति में जन्म होना, लोगों के पूर्व जन्म में किए गए दुष्कर्मों का फल है। और यह भी कि जैसे पारसमणि के छूते ही लोहा भी सोना हो जाता …

Vanilla flavouring is something we are all familiar with. But did you know that we get vanilla from the vanilla orchid, which grows in Madagascar and other islands in the Indian Ocean? What is more, the vanilla orchid is the only orchid which produces a useful product.