Saturday, July 09, 2011

Places in the News in Year 2010

• CHILE : A quake more massive than the one which hit Haiti in January 2010 and with a magnitude of 8-8 on the Richter scale struck South Central Chile on February 27, 2010, killing hundreds of people, knocking down buildings and Triggering Tsunami.

• JEYPORE-DEHING LOWLANDS OF ASSAM : A relatively small 500 km patch of rain forest in the Jeypore-Dehing lowlands in Assam which includes the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary recently came into news when a scientist discovered that this single area is shared by the maximum number of wildcats’ species.

• FALKLANDS : A diplomatic battle between Britain and Argentina has escalated over oil exportation around the Falklands as a rig hired by British companies is to begin drilling off the coast of the remote archipelago. It is considered that the territory over which the two countries fought a war in 1982-could hold upto 60 billion barrels of oil.

• PARAMBIKLUM TIGER RESERVE : Parambiklum Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala was declared the country’s 38th Tiger Reserve on February 19 2010.

• OSMANIA UNIVERSITY : Osmania University (Hyderabad) has recently emerged as the epicenter of Telengana movement in Andhra Pradesh.

• MARUNGUR : Marungur-17 km from Vadalur in Cuddalore district recently came into news when three potsherds with Tamil Brahmi inscriptions were discovered in an urn burial site there.

• CURICO : Curico is a town in Chile. Curico-the town-was founded in 1743 and is situated in a picturesque and wine producing areas. But recently this historic town was flattened by powerful earthquake which hit Chile in last week of February 2010, shocking historians and ancient heritage lovers.

• DHOLI DUNGRI VILLAGE : Dholi Dungri Village is situated about 30 km from Ahemdabad. It recently came into news when the remains of a snake and dinosaur fossil and dinosaur eggs found there provided conclusive evidence that a particular species of snakes that lived above 67 million years ago, devoured sauropods.

• MEXICALI :An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck on April 4, 2010, 62 km from Mexicali near US-Mexico border and was felt hundred of km away throughout Southern California.

• DANTEWADA : Chhattisgarh’s district Dantewada hogged the headlines when Maoist rebels in their deadliest attack killed 74 members of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and 2 policemen from the Chhattisgarh police and destroyed an Armoured Personal Carrier (APC) on April 6, 2010.

• SIRU KARUMBUR VILLAGE : Four inscriptions have been discovered at Siru Karumbur Village near Kaveripakkam 20 kilometers from Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu. Out of these four inscriptions two belong to Raja Chola (ruling period 985-1014 A.D.) and two of them belong to earlier Chola period of 10th century A.D.

• TIRUINDALUR VILLAGE : Tiruindalur village in Tamil Nadu came into news when over 85 copper plates and twelve bronze icons were found in the Kailasanthar temple in Kazhukanni Muttam in Tiruindalur village in a first-or-its-kind archaeology discovery in Tamil Nadu on May20, 2010.

• KOLAR DISTRICT : The county’s biggest grid-connected solar power plant has been set up at Yelesandra village in Bangarpet taluk of Kolar District and was commissioned on June 17, 2010. This is the state –of-the-art power plant with a capacity to generate 3 megawatt.

• GULF OF MEXICO : Gulf of Mexico hogged the headlines of newspaper recently because of what might be the most serious setback to date in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis.

• COIMBATORE : The First World Classical Tamil Conference was held in Coimbatore in last week of June 2010.

• SOUTH POLE : India will mount its first scientific expedition to the South Pole in November 2010 to mark centenary of the first successful expedition to the Southern end of the world by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundswen.

• NALANDA : The Union Cabinet has cleared the Nalanda University Bill 2010 paving the way for the establishments of Nalanda University at Nalanda in Bihar at an estimated cost of Rs.100.5 crore.

• TERMINAL 3 OF IGIA : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated the new Terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi international Airport (IGIA) in New Delhi on July 4, 2010. It is the state of the art integrated terminal called T-3 of IGIA and is the World’s third largest. The T-3 has India’s first automated parking management and the guidance system at multi-level car parking of 7 levels capacity of 4300+cars.

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