Ramazan Bashardost is an Afghan politician. Born in 1965 in the Qarabagh district of Ghazni Province to a respected family, Ramazan Bashardost is an ethnic Hazara. Bashardost spent a substantial part of his life studying. His early years of schooling were completed in Qarabagh, before moving to Maimana, in Faryab Province. Then, because of the 1978 coup d’etat, Bashardost left …

Lok Sabha elections are held every five years in order to elect the next Prime Minister of India. People vote for their preferred party and the candidate of the winning party goes on to represent the Prime Minister of our country. The Lok Sabha elections are also called general elections. The Lok Sabha has a maximum strength of 552 members, …

Cricket Quotes in English For Students: Cricket is one of the most popular games worldwide. No other game has seen as much craze and fan following as this one. Playing cricket requires a lot of physical stamina and good presence of mind. Numerous aspiring cricketers enroll at various cricket academies each year. However, only few among them are able to …

Rahul Dravid — Rahul Sharad Dravid has established himself as an integral part of the Indian National Cricket team with his technical proficiency, stylish strokes and sheer stability. Rahul was born on January 11, 1973 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, to parents Sharad Dravid and Pushpa. He started to play cricket at the age of 12. Dravid did well in the junior tournaments …

Sachin Tendulkar — Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is an Indian cricketer. He holds several batting records, including the most Test centuries and the most one-day international centuries, and was rated in 2002 by Wisden as the second greatest Test batsman ever, after Sir Don Bradman. Nick Name: The Master Blaster, The Little Champion, The Bombay Bomber. Test …

Born: 12 May 1820, Florence, Italy Died: 13 August 1910, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom Award: Order of Merit Education: King’s College London, University of Cambridge Florence Nightingale OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she …

The bollygard cotton seed is suspected to have the ‘terminator seed’ technology which involves introduction of a gene that terminates the germination of the seeds after onetime usage. ‘Terminator’ is actually a name coined by the Canadian non-governmental organisation Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) for a technology that essentially controls the expression of certain genes, causing the plant to turn …

Langur, Hanuman: Mammal Encyclopedia For Students And Children — The gray langurs are a group of Old World monkeys and make up the entirety of the genus Semnopithecus. Colobinae is a subfamily of the Old World monkey family that includes 58 species in 10 genera, including the skunk-like black-and-white colobus, the large-nosed Proboscis Monkey, and the gray langurs, sacred to …

Nida Fazli, the son of Murtaza Hasan Baidi was born on October 12, 1938 in Delhi, to a Kashmiri family. At the time of partition, his parents migrated to Pakistan while Nida preferred to stay in India. He moved to Mumbai at an early age in search of job and started working for ‘Blitz’ and ‘Dharamyug’. He has also written …