Hi kids!
You must have heard and read about the Iranian twin sisters, Ladan and Laleh, who spent 29 years of their lives joined at the head and died during a surgery to...
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Cover Story: Money: the present and the past
Money is a fact of life, it always has been. As long as there has been a society, there have been many different kinds of currency. Money is what our present...
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Debate: Jumping queues!
When you’re standing in a long queue to pay the electricity bill, waiting in a bank to cash that long-awaited cheque or just waiting at the grocery store to pay for...
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Feature: How do you write?
Graphology is the art of judging character from handwriting. Perhaps you have seen detective programmes on television where a graphologist is called in to give an opinion of the character of...
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Story Time: The school badge
Mum, where is my Math exercise book?” Asked Sajid as he put his things in his school bag.
“It should be on the table,” Mother answered from the kitchen.
“It is not here.”...
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Story Time: An encounter with a witch
During the last summer holidays I joined a computer training institute to get a hang of this technology. The institute was at a walking distance from my house. I usually came...
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Story Time: I will never read my horoscope again
While reading the newspaper I turned on to the comic section. It gave me a really good laugh. I solved the crossword puzzle. Then suddenly my eyes fell on a new section, called “Todays Horoscope”. This filled me will great interest...
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Showbiz: The New teenage sensation: Mohammad Ali Charlie
Today the picture of our local music scene has changed dramatically from what it was a few years ago. The emergence of private music channels is mainly responsible for this. These...
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Travel: Changing colours of Leepa valley
When autumn sets in the Leepa vale, leaves fall off the trees and snowfall begins. The changing colours of the valley are worth seeing. The most fascinating valley of Azad Kashmir,...
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What are frogs good for?
It was very thoughtful to raise a voice in favour of silent, helpless frogs in YW April 19. Found in hinterland, around lakes and canals, their tinkering call at night adds...
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Country Hopping: Romania
Romania lies in the southeast of Europe, with Ukraine towards the northeast, Moldova towards the east and the Black Sea towards the southeast. Besides this, you will find Bulgaria towards the south and Yugoslavia towards the....
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Book: Roaming the universe
In the second part of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, Arthur, Ford, Trillion and Zaphod continue to roam the Universe in their super space ship, the Heart of Gold. Often...
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Movie: The hulk
A lot of comics have been turned into blockbuster movie franchises, promising a rich fan base and a brigade of anticipated sequels. After the phenomenal success of Daredevil and Spiderman, the...
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Music: Under rug swept
After a successful run with her first two ventures, Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Alanis Morissette returns with another stunning magnum opus that boasts of good lyrics and...
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Web Site: Useless knowledge
Bored of all the old sites and wanna checkout something new? Well, in that case uselessknowldege.com is the perfect choice. This site offers all kinds of trivia, quizzes, puzzles, jokes, riddles, cards and lots more....
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Game Talk: Smack down4: shut your mouth
WWE: Smackdown: Shut your mouth is a wrestling game you’ll never forget. Featuring superstars such as Brock Lesnar, Booker T, Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Rob Van Dam Ric Flair and many...
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On Air: The Teenage Witch
Hey! Sabrina’s back with all her witchy magic and she’s back on Star World! Yes, every Monday at 3:30pm Star World is repeating all the episodes of Sabrina, everyone’s favourite witch!...
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Satellites of sorts
It is a man-made object orbiting a planet or the sun. The Earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik was launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957. The first US satellite was Explorer I launched on January 31, 1958. Artificial satellites have also been launched to move around the moon, mars, venus and the sun....
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Computers: Screen saver
We all admire our home and like to keep it clean and sparkling. My mom says that your room is a mirror of your artistic taste. My teacher says just like...
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Super Sis
I am a student of class XI and one thing really bothers me a lot. I feel that I am not confident of my English language skills. I am a regular reader of Dawn and I don’t have a problem while reading the news....
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Recipe: Savoury Delights
Banana and cake pudding
Ingredients
1 cup milk
4 eggs
3 bananas...
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Earth A Live: Focus on environment
The environment, which sustains human life, is also a profound source of ill health for many of the world’s people. In the least developed countries, one in five children do not live to see their fifth birthday — mostly because of avoidable....
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Miscellanea: Environmental education material launched
Environmental education material developed by IUCN- the World Conservation Union was recently launched at a ceremony held at Hyderabad....
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Weekly Update: Mexico’s bid to beach clean-up
ROSARITO: Beachside entrepreneurs who rent horses to ride on Rosarito beach in the Pacific state of Baja California are dressing the animals in nappies as part of a countrywide effort to...
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Quotes
* Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong with his facts.
— Bernard Baruch
* If men had wings and bore black feathers few of them would be clever enough to be crow....
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Vocabulary: One word, two word
Some words are used both as one word and separately as two words. Let’s see where the distinction lies....
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Mail Box
I THINK the police is responsible for an increase in crime. Policemen do as they wish, they have meals at hotels and take fruit from vendors without paying. Culprits are live fearlessly with the backing of the police and innocent people are...
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Poet''s Corner
The busiest time of our house
Between 6am till 8am in the morn
Is the busiest time of our house.
You might think I am silly
But I am not....
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