>> 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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31 States,
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.

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)

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.

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.

In the aftermath of Mumbai terror attacks, millions of irate citizens from schoolchildren to senior citizens have woken up. The fury of Indians to such an extent was hitherto never witnessed until prior to 1947. All the rage is against only one commodity – the politicians. Anger is cent percent justified. It is high time that the citizens should unite and ask the Government in taking stringent actions against those involved in the heinous act against innocent lives. We do not want any more repetitions of 26/11 or any other terrorist attacks and the only alternative is to act tough against them.

Many people have voiced that India should attack terrorist establishments in Pakistan on its own without relying on countries like USA. We, as loyal citizens of India, must convey our opinions to the Indian Government by expressing it on open platforms like Internet. I would request all the readers to express their views and convey it to as many people as possible so that ultimately the concerned authorities also wake up from their deep slumber.

I personally feel that it is high time India must act independently without relying on a country like USA. Although USA has gone all the way out by sending Secretary of State Rice and Senator McCain to Pakistan in exerting its pressure to act strongly against the terrorists, one often wonders how serious its intents are. It remains to be seen, as history indicates to the contrary. USA is an economy that itself is on the verge of collapse by printing and pouring dollars into its couple of giant bankrupt institutions.

If India were to act on its own, the moot question is how effective is the foreign policy of Indian Government (or The Will of Politicians?). We need persons like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Iron Man of India at the helm of affairs. Well, India with its highly equipped Indian Army and tons of dare devil Sipahis, Majors, Colonels, Brigadiers and the powerful top brasses of Army, Navy and Airforce are more than willing and capable prove to win India’ battle against terrorism. The only thing that lacks is the will of the politicians to take right decisions. Politicians for the time being must put aside all the difference of opinions and get together to form one common agenda as per the voice of its citizens. If the politicians cannot take decisions, they should wear bangles and hand over the reins of India to Army.

By Dhrupad Buch, Mumbai.

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Here’s wishing you a happy and safe weekend.

This letter is written by Prakash B. Bajaj. He is from mumbai. I got this letter from someone else and I wanted to share with every Indian so that we can think what we want from ourself and from others. Now this is the time when young generation should replace these corrupt politicians.

Lets share this letter with every Indian. please send this link to all of your friends and make young generation active in Politics.

LETTER TO PRIMEMINISTER

Dear Mr. Prime minister

I am a typical mouse from Mumbai. In the local train compartment which has capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mouse. Mouse at least squeak but we don’t even do that.

Today I heard your speech. In which you said ‘NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED’. I would like to remind you that fourteen years has passed since serial bomb blast in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he is not caught. All our bolywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king meets him but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your ministers are hand in glove with him.. If any attempt is made to catch him everybody will be exposed.. Your statement ‘NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED’ is nothing but a cruel joke on this unfortunate people of India.

Enough is enough. As such after seeing terrorist attack carried out by about a dozen young boys I realize that if same thing continues days are not away when terrorist will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactor and there will be one more Hiroshima.

We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You promised Mumbaikar Shanghai what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug.

Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn’t it?

I am born and bought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe me corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar. Look at all the politician, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money.

Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief minister I have seen. His only business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to Delhi so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way and will increase FSI for fisherman so they can build concrete house right on sea shore. Next time terrorist can comfortably live in those house , enjoy the beauty of sea and then attack the Mumbai at their will.

Recently I had to purchase house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen builders.

Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and with all your intelligent agency & CBI you and your finance minister are not aware of it. Where all the black money goes? To the underworld isn’t it? Our politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I myself was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell you everything.

If this has been land of fools, idiots then I would not have ever cared to write you this letter. Just see the tragedy, on one side we are reaching moon, people are so intelligent and on other side you politician has converted nectar into deadly poison. I am everything Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Schedule caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Schedule caste, Creamy Schedule caste only what I am not is INDIAN. You politician have raped every part of mother India by your policy of divide and rule.

Take example of former president Abdul Kalam. Such a intelligent person, such a fine human being. You politician didn’t even spare him. Your party along with opposition joined the hands, because politician feels they are supreme and there is no place for good person.

Dear Mr Prime minister you are one of the most intelligent person, most learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost expose all selfish politician. Ask Swiss bank to give name of all Indian account holder. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolf among us. There will be political upheaval but that will better than dance of death which we are witnessing every day. Just give us ambient where we can work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else will be taken care of.

Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person or you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?

Prakash B. Bajaj

Late Wednesday night, Mumbai, India found itself the target of a ferocious terrorist attack, and the situation remains unresolved even now, three days later. According to reports, upwards of 60 young men entered Mumbai in small inflatable boats on Wednesday night, carrying bags filled with weapons and ammunition, and spread out to nine locations to begin their attacks. Lobbing grenades and firing their weapons, they entered hotels, a railway station and several other buildings, killing scores and wounding even more. As of this moment, the identity of the attackers has yet to be definitively determined, though there are reports indicating some of the gunmen were Pakistani – at least nine of them have been killed, nine more arrested. As of this writing, there were a reported more than 150 people killed from 11 different countries – though nearly 100 were Indian. More than 300 injuries have also been reported – those numbers may yet rise as several hostage situations still exist in the city.

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Indian commandos are airdropped in Nariman House, where the armed militants are believed to be holed up in Mumbai November 28, 2008.

Armed personnel hold handguns as they secure the area outside the Taj Palace hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.

I got this mail forwarded by one of my friend which was original form Fun On The Net.

Mishra, who resides in Lafayette, Indiana, took home a cash prize of $35,000, while winning more than $5,000 in other prizes. His winning word was “Guerdon”, which means “something that one has earned or gained”.

It is his fourth attempt at the title, the Associated Press reported, and follows three years of the comparatively empty consolation of top 20 finishes at Scripps.

His relief at the win was as evident as his excitement. But it was not without a considerable challenge from Sidharth Chand, the second place holder.

Sidharth, a first-timer from Michigan, had youth on his side. He is only 12. After several tense rounds of battle, he was eventually brought undone by the word “prosopopoeia”. Needless to say, the word relates to a type of figure of speech.

That stumble allowed Sameer to pounce. And with that extra 12 months of life experience, he was not about to miss his chance.

“My parents have been telling me since the beginning that I should always stay calm, cool and collected,” he said after his win.

Sameer reportedly lists his interests as the violin and video games. His $36,000 prize money should allow him plenty of opportunities for both.

Congratulations Sameer!