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                        Trees that reduce Global Warming in the World. 1. Yellow Poplar Status: Some species are available in India i.e. G48, W22 varieties weather : cold/mountain/ rainy/ In Punjab plain these are grown commercially. It is common along the Himalayan Lowlands (or Tulip Tree), the top carbon-store in one New York City study, works hard under rough conditions. 2. Silver Maple Status:Not available in India weather : cold/mountain can trap nearly 25,000 pounds of CO2 in a 55 year period, according to the Centre for Urban Forests. 3. Oak Status: Widely available in India weather : cold/mountain It is common along the Himalayan mountains (White Oak, Willow Oak, Laurel Oak and Scarlet Oak) has adapted to thrive in many climates, provides food and shelter to wildlife. 4.   Horse Chestnut Status: Some species are widely available in India weather : col...

SOME PICTURES WITHOUT TEXT HAVE A DEEP MEANING . This is Hachikō waiting for his master  Hidesaburō Ueno  at Shibuya Train Station Everyday the Akita dog Hachi would commute with Professor  Hidesaburo Ueno  to the train station. The professor would leave to catch the train for University of Tokyo and Hachi would come back home. At the  end of the day, accurately when the train is due,  Hachi would reach the station and wait for the professor outside. Both would be elated to see each other and embrace each other with joy. The pair continued the daily routine until 1925, when  Ueno did not return. He had died without ever coming back to the station because he had suffered cerebral hemorrage during the lecture. Hachi waited for professor’s return for  nine years, nine months and fifteen days  outside the gate of train station reaching there everyday precisely when professor had used to come back to the station. Due...

             AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INDIAN RAILWAYS Indian Railways is one of the largest railways networks in the world and the largest railways network to be operated by a single Govt.. It has been in operation for nearly 170 years,   since April 16, 1853.  The first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a  stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane. The idea of a railway to  connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhore Ghats  inclines first occurred to Mr. George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the  Bombay Government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843.   The formal inauguration ceremony was performed on 16th  April 1853, when 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left  Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm "amidst the loud applause of a vast multitude and  to the salute of 21 guns." The first passenger train steamed out of  Howrah station destined for Hooghly, a distanc...

STORY OF SURVIVOR IN PESHAWAR SCHOOL ATTAC K ON 16 DECEMBER 2014. It was 16th December 2014. The day started as any other normal day. We were standing in assembly which ended with the National anthem. I was in class 10th and my cousin was in primary section. We were sitting in the big hall when we heard loud noises. As gun culture is very common in Peshawar, we understood it is a gun fire. Someone was constantly firing with an AK47. As our school is a huge institution that runs under army, we were very happy that it would be some sort of training we are going to do, some sort of fun. But things got worse when we heard loud noises of children who were crying, including boys and girls (as it is a Co-Education school). Our teacher locked the door . Adrenaline rush was quicker than ever in my body. I was thinking this could be the last day of my life. And then, then someone kicked the door, after three to four times, the door broke open. There were two men holding an AK47 eac...

Shocking things do most Indians not know . That the “western” toilet we use in India today was invented during the period of the  Indus Valley civilization  (4000 years ago). That had it not been for  Kanhoji Angre  and his modern (for the day) navy along the Konkan coast, the Europeans would have made serious inroads a hundred years earlier. That the extinction of the dinosaurs, commonly believed to be the result of the meteorite crash in Yucatan peninsula Mexico, is strongly debated by an Indian scientist ( Sankar Chatterjee ) to be rather a result of the crash that created the massive  Shiva crater  in today’s Bombay High. That many parts of the Indian mainland are more than 200 crore years old (called  cratons ), while some are as young as just 5 crore years (the  Himalayas ). That only three  major  Indian rivers flow to the  West  into the Arabian Sea while the majority flow into the Bay of Bengal. That mode...