Mr Raghav receiving call from Mr Raghav

Mr Raghav receiving call from Mr Raghav

Raghav was sitting late in the office. It was 8’o clock and everyone had left except his boss Abhinav Kothari. Suddenly he got a call from his boss and he immediately ran inside Abhinav’s cabin.  Abhinav shouted at him, “Where are the files that I have to show tomorrow morning to the builder”? Raghav replied, “Sir I had kept the files on your table in the morning”. “So I am lying”? “No sir, I just wanted to inform that I do not have the files and you had to call…

Airlines in danger due to 5G

Airlines in danger due to 5G

The federal aviation administration this month warned of 5G consequences on aviation industry and requested Biden administration to delay deployment of 5G services. Dave Calhoun, Chief executive at Boeing & Jeffrey Knittel, CEO at Airbus Americas requested US government of delaying roll out of 5G wireless technology as it will interfere with airline radar altimeter. Altimeter measures height of airplane above a fixed point including sea level. 350,000 flights a year are expected to be delayed due to use of 5G technology as per alarm sounded by many airlines executive….

Frogs that live in desert

Frogs that live in desert

It is difficult to imagine frogs living in desert. But this is true. There are about 19 species of frogs that live in desert and mostly in Central Australia. The rainfall in these areas is very scarce and the water bodies completely dry during droughts. This means the amphibians must lay eggs and get the newly born prepared for next dry cycle. Actually these water holding frogs living in such dry areas have adapted themselves where the frog takes water through its skin, digs down into mud when it is…

Do Rock Goats really eat Rock?

Do Rock Goats really eat Rock?

Rock Goats also known as Rocky mountain goat or simply mountain goat is a hoofed mammal inhabiting North America.  Its scientific name is Oreamnos americanus. Despite its name it does not exactly belong to Goat family but is only closely allied and is properly known as goat-antelope. These wonderful creatures have strong hoofs enabling them to move up and down the rocks without letting them fall. This incredible feature makes them good mountain habitant. Their entire life is spent roaming on difficult peaks and rocks. The most important thing that…

Battle for Rare Earth Minerals

Battle for Rare Earth Minerals

Every one of us has seen countries fighting to gain supremacy over Oil and Oil reserves. But soon this will become history as the fight for Oil and Coal will be replaced with Critical Resources Minerals or Critical Raw Materials (CRM). These new age minerals include Cobalt, Titanium, Copper, Aluminum, Boron, Sulfur, Lithium, Phosphate, Iron, Manganese, Silicon, Nickel, Zinc, Graphite. CRM which is green and environment friendly is the future of this planet. CRM is available in few countries but again the game will be for countries who can explore…

Animal that lives on head and kicks food in mouth

Animal that lives on head and kicks food in mouth

The extraordinary animals living on their heads are Barnacles. You might have noticed barnacles encrusting large rocks at low tide and mistaken for some kind of Mollusc. Earlier called as Mollusc they were actually found to be a type of Crustaceans after noticing larvae hatching from eggs that had several features common with crustaceans. They belong to the same group to which crabs, lobsters etc. belong. The larva swims around feeding and growing and then changing into a shelled form and then chooses a place on a surface to settle…

World’s smallest plant to become Next Big Superfood

World’s smallest plant to become Next Big Superfood

Wolffia (or watermeal) is the smallest and tiniest flower in the world and belongs to duckweed family (Lemnaceae). This family in fact contains some of the simplest flowering plants. The Wolffia plant itself averages 0.1 to 0.2 mm in diameter and weighs about 1/1,90,000 of an ounce and is about the size of a grain of rice. This plant is mainly found in freshwater lakes and marshes worldwide and can float anywhere since it does not have any roots. Did you know that this plant is very healthy as it…

Are flowers of the sea really friendly?

Are flowers of the sea really friendly?

If you look deeply inside sea you will realise why these flowers of the sea were once called plant-animals. These are actually sea anemones that look like plants but are actually are not flowers. They are greedy predators, catching and eating fishes, worms, crabs and any other creatures that come in contact with these plant-animals. They are meat eating animals that typically attach themselves to the seafloor or coral reefs. Their stomach is divided by partitions to increase its surface area so that it can digest larger prey also. Flowers…

India now has 2 super secret Islands

India now has 2 super secret Islands

This is a secret mission of India that have compelled Pakistan and China to restrategize their foreign policies and most of the people in India are not aware about these. This is about two very beautiful islands surrounded by blue skies. Agalega Island (bought from Mauritius on lease) & Assumption Island (bought from Seychelles on lease) that only few people know but has created a terror within Government lobbies including China. India Government had been thinking of creating military base at a location so that no one could dominate India…

Portuguese man o’ war

Portuguese man o’ war

What do you think of Portuguese man o’ war? Does it relate to defence or military based in Portugal? No. This was named for its resemblance to ship. This is actually a species of floating colony of hydra like animals called polyps, clustered together under a gas filled bladder. This animal is about 6 inches long but the trailing elements can extend upto 6o feet. This animal also known as the man-of-war, blue bottle or floating terror is a hydrozoan (very small predatory animals living mostly in salt water). This…