When did the Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy happen?

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The Jallianwalla Bagh in 1919, months after the massacre. 13 April, 1919

A public meeting had been organized in Jallianwala Bagh to protest against the order passed by General Dyer banning such public gatherings. The day being a Sunday, many people from neighbouring places had come to the place in connection with the Baisakhi festival.The Jallianwala Bagh, or garden, was bounded on all sides by houses and buildings and had few narrow entrances, most of which were kept permanently locked. Since there was only one open exit except for the one already blocked by the troops, people desperately tried to climb the walls of the park. Many jumped into a well inside the compound to escape from the bullets. A plaque in the monument says that 120 bodies were plucked out of the well. General Dyer reached there with his troops and ordered the closure of the only exit to this place. He also ordered his troops to open fire with no prior intimation to the large gathering of people. In a span of about 10 minutes some 1600 or more rounds were fired.

Who Owns the Backyard?

Vicki Huffman, in Plus Living (Harold Shaw Publishers,1989), tells about a man who loved to hunt and bought two pedigreed setters that he trained to be fine bird dogs. He kept them in a large, fenced pen in his backyard.

One morning he observed a little bulldog trotting down the alley behind his home. It saw the two dogs and squeezed under the fence. The man thought he should perhaps lock up the setters so they wouldn't hurt the little dog, but changed his mind. Maybe they would 'teach that bulldog a lesson,' he reasoned.

Giving Up Too Soon

A man met a guru in the road. The man asked the guru - 'Which way should I go to achieve success?'The robed, bearded sage said nothing, but he pointed to a place in the distance. The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushed in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there came a loud 'Splat.'

Why we won't able to acheive what we want...

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You want to have your dream score card in exam but you fail... You want to increase our efficiency but you fail...You may want to maintain balance in your life and be best but you fail....You promise your self every time that this time you will achieve it but again you fail...

You target and strive for it again for again but improvement is not up to expectation. You have all resource and you may try your best also but then also it may not turn to result to your expectation...

CTC Disha Publicity.

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Hello Everyone,

CTC Disha is an initiative to make blood search faster.It aims at connecting the best blood banks in Bangalore, and providing blood statistics of the blood banks to anyone requiring blood in Bangalore city when they dial (080)1062. 

It also aims at ensuring transparency among the blood banks , so that they show true blood stocks to the people. 

Sankalp : A Big Picture

Many of the Volunteers, particularly freshers and the Chennai Volunteers, knew of Sankalp but did not JPEG Imagehave the entire big picture. So this Sunday meeting was conducted, when the Chennai Volunteers came to Bangalore. As our Guest for the day, we had a person from MindTree, Mr. Abraham Moses (Head of Administration).

Each Day Is A Gift

A 92-year-old delicate but well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock,with his hair fashionably coifed and his face shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.

His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.

Which is the first satellite to be developed and launched by India?

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Aryabhatta was the first Indian satellite, launched into a near earth orbit on April 19, 1975,by an Intercosmos rocket of erstwhile USSR. Carried three payloads, one each for X-ray astronomy,solar physics and aeronomy. Aryabhata was built by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to conduct experiments related to astronomy. The satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere on 11 February 1992.The 360-Kg satellite was fabricated wholly by Indian scientists at Peenya, Bengaluru, in 26 months at a cost of Rs. 50 Million.
The satellite was designated Aryabhatta after the fifth century astronomer and mathematician Aryabhatta of Kusumapura near Patliputra, now Patna, who laid the foundation of modern algebra, determined the parameters of the movements of various celestial bodies, calculated the diameters of the Earth and the Moon, and the importance of their movements around the sun.
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