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Books: Your best picks this month

Title: Pacey Packer: Unicorn Tracker Author: JC Phillipps Publisher: Penguin Random House In the first of a new graphic novel series, Pacey Packer fantasizes about battling foes while she babysits her little sister, Mina, who’s never without her stuffed unicorn named Slasher. Pacey rolls her eyes whenever Mina insists that Slasher is an actual unicorn […]

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10 YO Mini-Monet donates all earnings to charity

A 10-year-old British girl, who has been dubbed as mini-Monet, received an astounding amount for her painting, and donated it for charity! Daisy Watt started painting only four years ago when two of her grandparents were diagnosed with cancer and she painted a picture to cheer them up. She painted a picture of her garden […]

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A dent on Earth’s magnetic field may affect the ISS!

You all must agree that a dent on your car can transform your dad’s facial expressions, beware of that frown! Now imagine a dent on our Earth’s magnetic shield and then imagine the frown on nature’s forehead! Scary right?  The US space agency Nasa has said the widening dent in the Earth’s magnetic shield has […]

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Pune surpasses Mumbai to register most cases in India

For the first time since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, any other city has recorded more numbers of infections than Mumbai. Pune has crossed the Maharashtra capital by registering more than 1,37,000 cases while Mumbai has recorded more than 1,31,000 cases. Looking at the population difference between the two cities, this is a cause of […]

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A Fabulous Inning: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Former indian captain and internationally acclaimed cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket last week. It’s under Captain Cool (by which Dhoni is mostly referred to) that India won its second World Cup in 2011 after a long wait of 28 years.  Under his leadership, India won three major ICC tournaments – […]

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What is happening in Mali

Mali has been in turmoil for years, and now it has no government. Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita  and his prime minister, Boubou Cissé, were detained along with other government officials by the country’s armed forces. The coup came in force earlier this week.  Protests and corruption  The coup was followed by months of mass […]

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How is the Mauritius oil spill threatening sea life

A small island nation of Mauritius had to declare an emergency because its beaches and related sea life was in danger.  What happened On July 25, a Japanese ship named M V Wakashio struck a coral reef resulting in an oil spill of over 1,000 tonnes into the Indian Ocean. The ship was carrying an […]

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Who’s Kamala Harris?

Even as the United States is battling protests against racism and inequality, one name has brought much-needed hope: Kamala Harris. The presidential contender Joe Biden has picked Harris as his running mate. In other words if Biden wins the November US presidential election, Harris would be the vice-president.  And if that happens, it would create […]

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Wings in the sky: A brief history of aviation

As the USA celebrates their national aviation day this month, let’s take a moment to applaud the flight of fantasy which turned into a reality with human efforts and perseverance.  The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were pioneer aviators in the United States.  Orville was the first person to successfully fly an airplane. His first […]

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Illustration for kids

Would you like to make figures of your parents and friends to gift them? Let us learn how! You can take a photo of your parents or your friends in front of you and see the basic shapes the faces and bodies make. Some faces are round, oval heart shapes or triangles. Eyes are almond […]