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Nearly 200 years ago, most people travelled as caravans on land routes while ships and boats were used to travel in the water channels. A famous English civil and mechanical engineer George Stephenson made the steam locomotive, in 1825, weighing nearly 90 tonnes. Later, he went on to build the 25-mile (40 km) railway between Stockton and Darlington that was …

‘Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ‘DAVID FROST The 7 rules of success is a book by ‘Fiona Harrold’ the UK’s most successful business coach and personal mentor. Her powerful style has helped many people to achieve all their ultimate goals. She has provided an …

Malala has been a hot topic in national and international media since she was shot at by Taliban on Oct 9, 2012. Many international organizations, especially United Nations, encouraged her to raise voice for the education of girls. Malala earned huge fame across the globe in a short time through her sheer struggle to promote female education in backward areas …

‘If we are to move forward, we must believe in Alif Bay Pay. This awareness campaign to highlight the importance of education, being run by a private TV channel, makes every viewer strongly and recurrently realize that we, individually as well as collectively, still have to do a lot for the promotion of education in our country. We are paying …

While the West invested in innovation, Muslims did not ‘All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though’. When I read this headline from an article by Richard Dawkins, I realised that he was at his Islam bashing best. I was at first offended, thinking that perhaps this …

In 2008, the spot price of US-produced natural gas was $12/mmBTU. In 2012, the spot price crashed to less than $2/mmBTU before rebounding to around $4/mmBTU in 2013. According to The Economist, ‘The biggest breakthrough the energy industry has seen in decades, hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling, has released unprecedented quantities of gas from this shale.’ Over the past …

“If Poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.” John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic Movement, is the person who has left his indelible mark on English poetry. Science may one day ascertain the laws of distribution and descent which govern the …

A beautiful country endowed with a diverse culture, Canada, is a North American country. It is like a paradise for foreign students who aspire to further their studies in various fields of education. Every year, approximately 200,000 students from various countries go to study in Canada. Studying in Canada is an exciting and rewarding experience. Why Canada? Canada’s education reputation …

By 2020, the world will have about 50 billion connected electronic devices. We will have our own smartphones and computers, and organizations will have them spread everywhere from offices to tractors and boats to planes, monitoring rivers, air and soil. To start understanding what this means, think of cellphones. About 1.75 billion sets were sold in 2012, and Samsung and …

The first whiff of sleaze in the game came in 1994-95 when an Indian bookmaker offered money to Australia cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne in exchange for information related to pitch and weather conditions. Inconclusive evidence resulted in the players being let off and the episode fading away from public memory. But this laxity meant that by 2000, fixers …