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The 61st Republic Day Celebrations 26 January 2010. Flag Hoisting Ceremony by Hon’ble President of India Followed by Republic Day Parade from Rajpath, shall be live on 26-Jan-2010 at 9:25 AM onwards.

>> President’s address to the Nation 25/01/2010

Republic Day, celebrated on January 26th every year, is one of India’s most important national events. It was on January 26th, 1950 that the constitution of India came into force and India became a truly Sovereign, Democratic and Republic state. On this day, India finally enjoyed the freedom of spirit, rule of law and fundamental principle of governance. The patriotic fervor of the Indian people on this day brings the whole country together even in her embedded diversity.

Republic Day is a people’s day in a variety of ways:

It’s when regional identity takes a backseat and what matters most is the universal appeal of unity and brotherhood projected by all Indians. The Indian constitution basically stands for the aspirations which ‘the common man of India’ cherishes.

Republic Day is a day of the citizen of the country when he is entitled to be ‘all supreme. Republic Day is celebrated most majestically in the capital, New Delhi, where symbols of the great nation’s military might and cultural wealth are displayed in what is the world’s most impressive parade. All Government buildings are illuminated lending the city the atmosphere of a fairyland. This day is celebrated with much zeal and pride all across the nation.

Wish all the Indians a Happy Republic Day!

Send a Republic Day SMS Messages:

• Let us remember the golden heritage of our country and feel proud to be Indian. Happy Republic Day!
• Honoring with you the glory and power of our free homeland. Happy Republic Day!
• Hope peace regains in your part of the world today and everyday. Happy Republic Day!
• Our life iz full of colors and I hope this 26th January will add more colors in ur life. Happy Republic Day!

Other Might Have Forgotten
But Never Can I
The Flag Of My Country
Furls Very High
Happy Republic Day!

Bharat ky nikamy baccho,
Valentine day ya Friend’s day hota
to ab tk 500 sms aa gay hoty.
So wish evrybody
A happy republic day!

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Happy Replubic Day

We salute out Great Freedom fighters
“JAI HIND”…
“VANDE MATARAM”

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1618 Languages,
6400 Castes,
6 Religions,
6 Ethnic Groups,
29 Major Festivals &
1 Country!
Be Proud To Be An Indian!…
Great Republic…
Happy Republic Day !!

Today is also Australia Day (previously known as Anniversary Day, Foundation Day and ANA Day), and also referred to as Invasion Day by several groups within Australian society, is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, the hoisting of the British flag there, and the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia.

December 26, 2009 marks the 5th year of the Indian Ocean Tsunami that spread havoc across nations.

Mon, Dec 21 08:12 AM

REUTERS – The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by a major earthquake under the seafloor north of Aceh in Sumatra. Scientists say another massive undersea earthquake is long overdue beneath the Mentawai islands in Indonesia and could trigger another deadly tsunami anytime.

HOW TSUNAMIS OCCUR

In the Sumatra area, the tectonic plates meet in a subduction zone, where the boundaries of one plate are forced beneath the other plate. The Indo-Australian plate is sliding northeastward (at about 7 cm per year) and dipping under the Eurasian plate, along a fault line called the Sunda megathrust which runs southwest from Myanmar down Indonesia towards Timor.

Tremendous geological strain builds up, over many decades or even longer than a century, until a section of the megathrust gives way. This rupture causes the oceanic plates beneath Sumatra to lurch forward suddenly, by many metres, in a big earthquake.

If the ocean floor ruptures, it suddenly moves a massive amount of water. This is what happened in the earthquake that caused the deadly Indian Ocean tsunamis of December 2004.

The water displaced by the Aceh earthquake was like tipping out the volume of Sydney Harbour within a few minutes.

Major quakes that rupture the ocean floor are usually shallow quakes occuring at a depth of less than 70 km (44 miles). The quake that caused the 2004 tsunami was 30 km below the seafloor.

TSUNAMIS RISE UP

On the ocean surface, tsunamis start as an insignificant ripple capable of passing under a ship unnoticed, but they become giants as they approach land and the ocean becomes shallow.

A tsunami is not a single wave, but a series of waves. They can travel across the ocean at speeds of up to 1,000 km (620 miles) an hour, the speed of a jet aircraft.

The vast size of the Pacific Ocean and the large earthquakes associated with the “Ring of Fire” combine to produce deadly tsunamis in the Asia-Pacfic. A tsunami can travel across the Pacific Ocean in less than a day.

As the waves approaches land, the ocean recedes dramatically exposing reefs, as the waves draw the water out.

As the trough of the wave drags along the sea floor, slowing it down, the crest rises up dramatically and sends a giant wall of whitewater onto land. The first wave may not be the biggest.

The destructive force of a tsunami comes not from the height of the wave, but from the volume of water moving. It is as if the ocean floods the coast, smashing everything in its path, and then just as quickly recedes. Many people who survive the initial wave impact are washed out to sea as the tsunami recedes.

WORLD’S WORST TSUNAMIS

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was the world’s most deadly, killing around 226,000 people, with a wave height about 100 feet.

The world’s biggest tsunami, caused by a magnitude 8 quake which caused a massive landslide, hit the remote Lituya Bay in Alaska on July 9, 1958. As the wave swept through Lituya Bay, it was forced to rise up, reaching an estimated height of 1,720 feet on the other side of the bay, becoming a mega-tsunami. The sparsely populated bay was devastated, but damage was localised.

The Krakatau island volcanic eruption of 1883 generated giant waves reaching heights of 125 feet, killing some 30,000 people. It was the most violent volcanic eruption in modern history.

Sources:

Singapore-based Earth Observatory.

School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Hawaii.

Tsunami Research Center, University of Southern California

(Reporting by Michael Perry; Editing by Bill Tarrant)

Did you clean your hands today? If not clean it with soap now. To remind you, today (October 27) is Global Hand Washing Day. Clean Hands be Healthy. Clean hands and save lives.

Today the Hand Washing Day celebrated to promote sanitation and hygiene across the country in an organised manner. The focus this year is on teachers who have been oriented for this purpose to ensure that all children wash their hands with soap or with other cleaning material before they eat their mid-day meal on this day.

From now, speak Odia in Odisha. The Orissa Assembly had moved a resolution in August 28, 2008 to change the state’s name to Odisha and its official language from Oriya to Odia, saying the names had been used wrongly.  It is written as Udisa in Hindi and Orissa in English. The resolution was approved by a voice vote. The change in nomenclature was approved by the Union Cabinet without discussion. It’ll get Parliament’s nod soon enough.

Name Changers:

• Bombay to Mumbai in 1995 by Shiv Sena government.
• Madras to Chennai in 1996 by the DMK Govt government.
• Calcutta to Kolkata in 2000 by CPM government.
• In Kerala: Trivandrum to Thiruvananthapuram, Cochin to Kochi, Allepey to Allapuzha, Calicut to Kozhikode.
• Pondicherry to Puducherry in 2006
• Uttaranchal to Uttarakhand in 2006 by Congress government.
• Bangalore to Bengaluru in 2007 by H D Kumaraswamy’s JD(S) government.
• Now Orissa to Odisha and Oriya to Odia in 2008 by Naven Patnaik’s BJD government.