The only home of Asiatic lions
The Gir National Park is located in Saurashtra, Gujarat, and is spread over 1412 square kilometres. Outside Africa, it is the only place where wild lions can be found. It is the only home to Asiatic lions.
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How are Indian and African lions different?
African and Indian lions belong to the same species Panthera leo. However, they belong to different sub-species. The most striking morphological character always seen in Asiatic lions is a longitudinal fold of skin running along their belly. This fold of skin is rarely seen in African lions.
Edison’s dream of a world of concrete
Thomas Edison is known for his discoveries of several devices, conspicuous among them being the light bulb and the phonograph. What is not so well known is that he once owned the largest cement plant in the world. It is said that he dreamt of a future in which millions of Americans would not only…
Founder of Kindergarten System
In 1837, Friedrich Froebel established the ‘Play and Activity Institute’ based on his tested method of activity based learning. He renamed the institute ‘Kindergarten’ in 1840. The word kindergarten means the garden for the children (kind or ‘child’ and garten or ‘Garden’), a place where they can observe nature and interact with it. It also means…
91-year-old Ghulam Azam sentenced to 90 years of imprisonment
Ghulam Azam, the former Chief of Bangladesh’s Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, was sentenced to 90 years in jail for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 war of independence.
What alters the length of a day?
Researchers have found that periodic jumps generated in the earth’s core change the length of a day every 5.9 years on our planet. They found that variations in the length of the day over periods of between one and ten years are caused by processes in the Earth’s core. The Earth rotates once per day,…