A legless break dancer who learnt his amazing moves in just three months from the internet has become a star in India.
Vinod Thakur, 22, who was born handicapped, even went on India's Got Talent.
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Friday, February 17, 2012
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Taj Mahal could collapse - rotting foundations of India's most famous attraction in Agra
Campaigners have warned that the Taj Mahal could collapse within five years because wooden foundations are rotting.
The ancient mausoleum is India's most famous tourist attraction. It was built of marble 350 years ago by Mogul emperor Shah Jahan and attracts four million visitors to Agra ever year.
Cracks have now appeared in some parts of the tomb and four minarets around the structure are tilting.
MAIL STORY
TAJ MAHAL WIKI
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
Monday, September 19, 2011
Earthquake rocks India, Nepal and Tibet - dozens killed
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck north east India, Nepal and Tibet, with dozens killed and injured.
Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old, when a wall collapsed at the British embassy in Nepal.
The quake epicentre was in the Indian mountain state of Sikkim, where several people were killed.
BBC
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old, when a wall collapsed at the British embassy in Nepal.
The quake epicentre was in the Indian mountain state of Sikkim, where several people were killed.
BBC
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
Monday, July 04, 2011
Gun-toting granny - the 75-year-old sharpshooter
You don't want to mess with 75-year-old Parkaso Tomar. The "shooter granny" from Johri village in Uttar Pradesh, India, is a crack shot.
And she has inspired a new generation of young women to pick guns - her daughter, Seema, becoming the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Rifle and Pistol World Cup.
Indeed, there appears to be more than one granny in the village taking potshots at a male-dominated society.
"The grannies were so good," said their coach, "a lot of the regulars stopped turning up at competitions to avoid being humiliated at the hands of a woman."
BBC STORY
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
And she has inspired a new generation of young women to pick guns - her daughter, Seema, becoming the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Rifle and Pistol World Cup.
Indeed, there appears to be more than one granny in the village taking potshots at a male-dominated society.
"The grannies were so good," said their coach, "a lot of the regulars stopped turning up at competitions to avoid being humiliated at the hands of a woman."
BBC STORY
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
'Parents pay to turn girls into boys' - sex change scandal in India
Indian parents are paying doctors to perform sex change operations on young girls to turn them into boys, according to the Telegraph.
Investigators in India claim that 300 girls were surgically turned into boys in one city as parents want to improve family income prospects.
FULL TELEGRAPH STORY
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
Investigators in India claim that 300 girls were surgically turned into boys in one city as parents want to improve family income prospects.
FULL TELEGRAPH STORY
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Google and Facebook together are bigger than the USA - mind-boggling statistics
Look at these amazing statistics. They really do put the internet and the world into perspective.
The stats show how big some internet companies have become, but also reveal how dwarfed their daily visitors are when compared with the extraordinary mass of people in China.
If, for example, the Google and Facebook dotcoms were countries, they would each have bigger populations than Brazil - and their combined population would, amazingly, outstrip the USA (by more than two countries the population size of the UK)!
But, put all the dotcoms mentioned here together and they would not come close to the population of China - falling short by a huge 581 million (more than the combined populations of the USA, Russia and Japan).
dv = daily visitors (some pop figures are 2009!)
Number of people who watched the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton according to the New York Times: (estimate give or take 500 million) 3,000 million (more than China, India, USA and the UK together!). Hard to believe as there are 7,000 million people on the planet.
And, finally, the estimated number of insects in the world: 10,000,000,000,000 million - that's a lot of bites!
The stats show how big some internet companies have become, but also reveal how dwarfed their daily visitors are when compared with the extraordinary mass of people in China.
If, for example, the Google and Facebook dotcoms were countries, they would each have bigger populations than Brazil - and their combined population would, amazingly, outstrip the USA (by more than two countries the population size of the UK)!
But, put all the dotcoms mentioned here together and they would not come close to the population of China - falling short by a huge 581 million (more than the combined populations of the USA, Russia and Japan).
dv = daily visitors (some pop figures are 2009!)
China: 1,331.5 million population
India: 1,155.3 million
United States: 310 million
Google: 236 million dv
Facebook.com: 200.5 million dv
Brazil: 194 million
Russia: 141.8 million
YouTube.com: 130.6 million dv
Japan: 127 million
Yahoo.com: 119.6 million dv
France: 62.6 million
United Kingdom: 62 million
Twitter.com: 50 million dv
Canada: 33.7 million
Australia: 22 million
BBC.co.uk: 10.7 million dv
Portugal: 10.5 million
Mexico City: 8.8 million
New York City: 8.1 million
London: 7.5 million
Norway: 4.9 million
New Zealand: 4.3 million
Brighton and Hove: 0.256Number of people who watched the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton according to the New York Times: (estimate give or take 500 million) 3,000 million (more than China, India, USA and the UK together!). Hard to believe as there are 7,000 million people on the planet.
And, finally, the estimated number of insects in the world: 10,000,000,000,000 million - that's a lot of bites!
------------------------------
Website: http://ukpix.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/UKpix/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ukpix
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)