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Goes Digital THINK GREEN THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER FOR YOUNGSTERS IN INDIA Young Minds, New Delhi, 30 July to 6 August, 2015 www.youngmindsonline.com Volume VIII, Issue 5, Pages-8 Call : 011-46558855, 9871115502 Email : [email protected] GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS By Credit Card, log on to Eligibility: High School Students in grades 9th - 12th www.youngmindsonline.com Young Minds is a global outreach partner of Columbia Business School send a cheque made to the order of For program details: www.youngmindsonline.com Delhi, India Young Mind Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. [email protected] th nd 406, 3rd Floor, Udyog Vihar, Call : 9811456566, 9871115502 18 - 22 Dec, 2015 Phase – 3, Gurgaon – 122002 Annual subscription : ` 499/- FORMER PRESIDENT HALF OF ONLINE WORLD USES FACEBOOK A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM PASSES AWAY TRENDING IN Half of the world’s ARRESTED Former President A.P.J. Abdul estimated online Kalam, widely acclaimed population now check in as the “people’s President”, to the social networking passed away on 27th July,after giant Facebook at least collapsing during a lecture at the once a month. Indian Institute of Management A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Facebook said the Beijing police has busted a factory number of people who that had produced about 41,000 fake in Shillong.Mr. Kalam, the country’s 11th President, iPhones in China worth $19 million was one of India’s most eminent scientists, and had the use it at least monthly and have arrested have arrested unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from grew 13% to 1.49 billion in the three months to the end nine suspects in the counterfeiting of June.The number is equal to half of the estimated operation.The fake factory involved 30 universities and institutions. He was the President repackaging second hand smartphone between 2002 and 2007, took the lead in the conduct of three billion people who use the internet worldwide. parts as new iPhones for exports. Of those users, it said well over half, 65%, were now REJECTED PETITION as the National Democratic Alliance candidate by then accessing Facebook daily.Mobile advertising revenue PrimeIndia’s Ministernuclear testsA.B. Vajpayee.in May 1998 He wasand laidwas tolater rest fielded in his was the biggest factor, accounting for more than three quarters of the total. hometown Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu on 30th July. Source PTI Source PTI THE 3RD BIGGEST GLOBAL HIT EVER The Obama administration has Dinosaur blockbuster “Jurassic World” has rejected a petition signed by almost 168 000 people calling on it to pardon become the third biggest global hit of all time.The former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden for leaking US stomped its way up the box office rankings to government secrets. earned $1.522 billion worldwide, eclipsing “The Avengers”fourth film ($1.520 in the popular billion) “Jurassic to take thirdPark” spot series in hasthe HEALTH “Avatar” ($2.79 billion) and 1997’s “Titanic” ($2.19 global box office.It is now second only to 2009’s by Colin Trevorrow and executive produced by Stevenbillion), Spielberg,not accounting “Jurassic for World” inflation.Directed has earned $614.3 million domestically in the United States, million. South Korea has declared an end to becoming only the fourth film to ever passSource $600 PTI a deadly outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that MISSING MH370 PLANE’S NEW CLUE? PETER HIGGS RECEIVES WORLD’S killed 36 people, triggered widespread Some debris have been found OLDEST SCIENTIFIC PRIZE panic and stymied growth in Asia`s Nobel prize winner Peter fourth-largest economy. in the western Indian Ocean on 29th July.They appear to be part Higgs has joined the of a Boeing 777, the same model ranks of Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein by Glance--Verb as Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 winning the world’s oldest that disappeared in 2014.During Meaning--take a quick look the initial days of the search for the plane, there were Society’s Copley Medal, Antonym--overseeGlɑns several reports of possible debris sightings in the waters scientificfor his pioneeringprize, the Royalwork closer to where authorities believe the plane went down, on the theory of the Higgs Peter Higgs but none of those was actual wreckage.If this turns out boson, which was discovered in 2012.86-year-old. The “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” Vince Lombardi physical evidence that the plane crashed. Source PTI – Steve Jobs to be a piece of MH370, it would be the firstSource piece PTI of Copley medal was first awarded by the Royal Society in 1731, 170 years before the first Nobel Prize. 2 www.youngmindsonline.com 30 July to 6 August, 2015 www.facebook.com/inventednewdelhi UK MP DEMANDS ‘KOH-I-NOOR’ BE INDIAN-AMERICAN WOMAN ANNOUNCES RETURNED TO INDIA HER CONGRESSIONAL BID British Indian MP Keith Vaz has called Indian-American Mary for the world-famous ‘Koh-i-Noor’ Thomas, a government diamond to be returned to India during attorney in Florida, has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s UK that she will run for the US visit in November.The Koh-i-Noor was Congressional elections in mined in medieval times in the Kollur November 2016.If elected, Mine in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur Thomas, whose parents district.The diamond was originally arrived in American from owned by the Kakatiya dynasty, which India in 1972, would be had installed it in a temple of a Hindu goddess as her eye. It passed through the hands of various invaders and American lawmaker to be a memberthe first ofwoman the US HouseIndian- of a part of the Crown of Queen Elizabeth II. Source PTI Representatives. was finally confiscated by the British during the Raj.Today the diamond is Source PTI MUMBAI BOMBER YAKUB MEMON HANGED OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY SEARCHING FOR THE FIRST USE OF ‘EMAIL’ The man considered to be the mastermind behind coordinated bomb The Oxford English Dictionary has launched attacks in Mumbai in 1993 that left 257 people dead has been executed.He was English of the word ‘email’. The Oxford originally sentenced to death in 2007 Englisha search Dictionaryto find the (OED),first recorded which usebegan in as a key conspirator behind 12 blasts tracking the English language in 1857, is that ripped through several hotels, marketplaces and buildings in Mumbai Yakub Memon on March 12, 1993.The judiciary stood like a rock behind its judgments forlooking electronic for the mail first fromuse of 1975; the word the shorter ‘email’. The OED currently has a first quotation intended to delay the inevitable. The executive handled the sensitive 1979.The OED occasionally issues “OED issueand decisions sensibly andin Memon’s cleanly. Thecase, lawyers including of Memon his final fought petition tooth-and-nail on 29 July Appeals”email is firstin which attested editors four solicityears later,help in to save their client, and the Maharashtra government and Nagpur jail uncovering new information about the history and usage of English. Source PTI Source PTI authorities did their duty with firmness and care. INDIA TO SURPASS CHINA IN POPULATION BOY MAKES HISTORY WITH According to the DOUBLE-HAND TRANSPLANT United Nations,India Zion Harvey, who lost his is expected to surpass limbs from a bacterial China to become the infection as a toddler, is world’s most populous the youngest recipient of a nation by 2022. China double-hand transplant. and India remain the two It took a team of 40 experts largest countries in the more than 10 hours to world, each with more complete the transplant. than 1 billion people, representing 19% and He has spoken of his plans 18% of the world’s population, respectively. By 2050, six countries are to throw a football, climb expected to exceed 300 million: China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, monkey bars and hold his and the USA. Source PTI double-hand transplant. Source PTI DID YOU KNOW? baby sister - after becoming the first child in the world to receive a DID YOU KNOW? years.Nestle has been at the centre of India’s worst food scare in Sylvester Stallone Puts ‘Rocky,’ ‘Rambo’ Memorabilia up for At Rs 64 cr, Nestle India has reprted its first quarterly loss in 15 Auction Sylvester Stallone has announced that he’ll put hundreds a decade after local regulators reported that some packets of the of props and costumes from his 40-year career up for auction in company’s Maggi instant noodles -- one of India’s most popular snacks -- contained dangerous levels of lead. Some of the items Stallone has agreed to sell include Rambo’s Army October,jacket and with Rocky’s a portion gloves, of robethe proceeds and boxing benefiting trunks. military charities. Young Minds, owned by Ms. latika Kohli, is a Registered Trademark of Young Minds Newsapers Pvt. Ltd. www.facebook.com/inventednewdelhi 30 July to 6 August, 2015 www.youngmindsonline.com www.facebook.com/inventednewdelhi3 Summer on Uranus lasts one long day, whch is equivalent to 42 Earth years In Peru,there is a billboard that creates drinkable water out of thin air A colony of 500 bats can eat The most used letter in the approximately 250,000 insects in English alphabet is ‘E’, and an hour ‘Q’ is the least used! Facebook, Skype and Twitter are all banned in China A toaster uses Cherophobia is almost half as the fear of fun much energy as a full-sized oven 4 www.youngmindsonline.com 30 July to 6 August, 2015 www.facebook.com/inventednewdelhi COOL STUFF WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? THE WORLD’S SMALLEST AND DR. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM FASTEST USB FLASH DRIVE WHO WAS DR.

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