The 19th century was an era of standardization. As railways were connecting whole landmasses, countries were supplanting nearby occasions with an arrangement of hour-wide time regions. As sea navigation became more common, and since there was no common time agreed, sailors faced a lot of difficulties. As a result, many countries decided to standardize on a system of navigation and maps. They all came together and met in Washington DC for the International Meridian Conference to accept on standard time. There were 41 delegates from 25 countries who attended the International Meridian Conference. Many countries including the US, even before…
The global governing body for cricket is the International Cricket Council (ICC). It was started in 1909 and started governing the game of Cricket from then.
When the game of Cricket started at the International level there was only unlimited overs format played and only a few matches in a year. A team will play only five matches per year on an average. Then, as years went on Limited overs format was introduced and it was played for 60 overs a side, with teams wearing a white jersey. It was at this time Cricket started attracting more fans. Then ICC…
The Earth’s average temperature has been keeping on increasing at a rapid pace over the past few decades. A major problem that contributes to the increase in global temperature is the presence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. When the Sun’s energy reaches the Earth’s atmosphere, some of it is reflected into space and the rest is absorbed and re-radiated by the greenhouse gases.
The absorbed energy warms the atmosphere and therefore the surface of the world. This process maintains the Earth’s temperature at around 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it might rather be, allowing life on Earth to exist…
The COVID — 19 recession, could be a major global recession which arose as an economic consequence of the continued Coronavirus pandemic. Since World War 2, coronavirus pandemic could cause the worst global recession. Most of the countries saw a falling GDP from January to March 2020, because the economic impact of coronavirus began to hit. For April to June official figures haven’t been published yet, but they’re likely to point out even bigger falls, this can mean the second quarter of negative growth, confirming that much of the globe is in recession.
In such a situation, what can a…
The global governing body for cricket is the International Cricket Council (ICC). Cricket is one of the world’s most popular sports with an estimated 2.5 billion fans. The global governing body for cricket is the International Cricket Council (ICC). The ICC governs and administers the game and works with its 105 members to grow the sport. Cricket is a bat and ball sport that involves two competing sides of 11 players each.
An official Cricket match is played in a grass field, which is oval, with a flat strip of ground at the middle, which is 22 yards long and…
A fatal clash at the India-China border in the Ladakh area has claimed the lives of 20 Indian and 43 Chinese soldiers on 15 June 2020.
Foreign ministers of both the countries have held telephone talks over the deadly border clash, agreeing to “cool down” the tensions. India accuses the “violent face-off” is an attempt by China to “unilaterally change the status quo” on the Galwan Valley frontier in Indian administered Ladakh. China, in turn, accuses the Indian army of “provoking and attacking Chinese personnel, resulting in serious physical confrontation”. In this article we will know the reason about the disuse of weapons since 1975 at the Sino — Indian border.
At the early stages of the 19th century, the Empire of Russia was longing for…
The armies of the world’s two most populous nations are locked in a tense face-off high in the Himalayas, which has the potential to escalate as they seek to further their strategic goals. The Indian Army and the Chinese military are moving heavy equipment and weaponry including artillery and combat vehicles to their rear bases close to the disputed areas in eastern Ladakh.
Satellite images show massive construction activity including the addition of a second taxi-track to position helicopters or combat aircraft, at a high altitude Chinese airbase Ngari Gunsa which is located just 200 kilometres away from the Pangong…
The current levels of tension at different locations on the disputed India-China border, because of Chinese soldiers moving into the Indian territory across the Line of Actual Control (a demarcation line which separates the Indian controlled territory from the Chinese controlled territory) has raised questions about the motive of Chinese.
The boundary issue that India and China are facing is a contradiction between the Chinese empire and the present-day India, which was formed and demarcated by British colonialists. During the early 19th century, the Russian Empire was longing for a colonial empire and a warm water port (A ‘warm water…
