F1 - 2010 season

A fighting fit 41 year old Michael Schumacher on the comeback trail, as focused as he was 4 years ago; teh stealth like transformation of Brawn GP into Mercedes GO signaling the return to F1, after a gap of 55 years, of the oldest marque in automobile history; four world champions on the grid; at least four leading teams in which team mates will be fighting head to head for wins and the championship; the heroic return of Felipe Massa to racing after that horrible and life threatening accident at the Hungaroring last year and with refueling being banned, the prospect of drivers displaying subtle car control to nurse tyres, make for the best season in Formula One in years
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India to reduce emission intensity by 20-25%

Four days ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, India announced that it will reduce its emission intensity by 20-25% by year 2020. The question remains: Is this achievable, given that India has a growing growing economy, which translates into greater demands from aspiration driven ever growing population?

The world's first elected communist givernment

5th April 1957
Kerala ushered into power the first democratically elected communist government in the world. Headed by the redoubtable E.M.S. Namboodiripad, it served only 28 months of its 60 month mandate and on July 31, 1959 was dismissed by the President of India invoking Article 356 on the recommendation of the governor of Kerala

Manu Sharma - killer at large

Manu Sharma still thinks he is above the law. Had he remained out of sight and enjoyed a quiet time with his friends in their homes or his, he may have got away and his parole extended - perhaps indefinitely. Fortunately for justice, the fellow was stupid enough to go partying and now is back where he belongs.
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The original bikini girl

Can anyone other than Brigitte Bardot get the claim for popularising the bikini?

Who decreed that vehicles should drive on the right in Europe?

Could the answer hark back to Pope Boniface VIII who ordered pilgrims on the Bridge of St. Angelo en route to and from St. Peter's Basilica in the jubilee year of 1300 to keep to the right?

Formula One's first superstar

4th August 1957
Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, and with four wins for the season, clinched his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive world championship. Both these records would endure for almost half a century – till Michael Schumacher broke them in the new millennium.

© Paul Chenard