One of the most reputed and one among the very few banks that have escaped the global economic crises Goldman Sachs bank have been fined a record amount of 550 million $. This is fine is the greatest ever a bank has been fined for its unethical behaviour.

The commercial watching agency securities and exchange commission has fined the Goldman Sachs the record fine as it fails to provide essential information for its investors. Of this record amount 250 million $ will reach the investors and the remaining amount will be added to the US treasury.

The SEC has reported that Goldman Sachs has acknowledged its guilt. However this record fine wont affect the Goldman Sachs a bit as its shares rise 4.5% today as the bank got off easily from such a situation. So this rise in its shares yielded Goldman Sachs a profit of about 800 million $ from which they can pay the fine of 550 million.

The Goldman Sachs has yielded a profit of about 3.5 billion $ this year in its first three months. Its has sustained the global economic crises from the recent years and now it has a earned a very bad name cause of this incident. But the reputation of the bank is very firm to pass this event like nothing matters. But the action of the SEC is a trivia that has to be judged

When you’re packing up for an outdoor adventure, you usually first think of the basic stuff that’ll keep you safe and comfortable — a sleeping bag, weather-appropriate clothing, water, food, acompass and some matches. Although you might not realize it while you’re still at home, what you pack could very well wind up saving your life.

When your camping trip turns into a life-or-death scenario because you’re completely lost, you’ll need a few things to keep you alive – food, water, warmth, shelter and direction. Although the basic needs for survival in the outdoors remain the same, technological advances have brought some changes to adventure gear. Engineers and innovators have taken basic survival tools, such the compass and the matchstick, and updated them. These devices serve as both practical adventure tools and tools that could save your life in the wild.

I think this article will make an interesting read. For those who believe in the existence of ‘big foot’.Recent exploration activity in the northern region of India uncovered a skeletal remains of a human of phenomenal size.

This region of the Indian desert is called the Empty Quarter.

Tablets discovered with the body suggest that the giant may have been created by the god Brahma, meaning the body could be of mythological character Ghatotkacha, a powerful warrior with magical abilities.Govt of India has secured the whole area and no one is, allowed to enter except the NatGeo personnel.

IS THIS REALLY BIGFOOT?

Despite the association with Indian legend, could this in fact be the first real evidence of the existence of Bigfoot?After all, many myths and legends in history are spoken about by people of different cultures who will naturally put their own spin and interpretation on events.

THE TRUTH

Unfortunately for those of you who want to believe in Bigfoot, the emails above are hoaxes. The photographs were submitted to a contest that was designed to test participant’s photoshop skills.

For now, at least, the search for a real live Bigfoot or skeleton continues…

The Taj Mahal is one of the seven wonders today. Built in between 1632 and 1652, it is one of the most beautiful buildings that I have personally visited. The mystery of this magnificent structure isn’t how it was built, but what are its origins? Is it a Muslim mausoleum or a Hindu temple of Lord Shiva? Or is it really an Islamic Mausoleum? Or is Dr. P.N. Oak’s theories the right one? A French jeweller, Tavernier, back in the days, claims to have seen the construction of the Taj Mahal from foundation to conclusion. He agrees that the building was Emperor Shah Jahan’s creation because no one else could afford to create such a structure back in those days in India. It is believed that Mumtaz Mahal, in English meaning The Chosen one of the Palace, was Emperor Shah Jahan’s favorite wife, out of the others that he had.

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Professor Purushottam Nagesh Oak, commonly referred to as P.N. Oak, the author of the book “Taj Mahal: The True Story” is convinced that the Taj Mahal is a Hindu structure, and describes it in this book. Let me now put forward to you a summary of the massive evidences in a few points.P.N. Oak, firstly, points out that the name isn’t Muslim in any way. Taj in Hindi means crown, and Mahal, means palace, and who would call a grave a crown palace? ‘Taj’ and Mahal are both of Sanskrit origins. Also, no one can omit a wife’s name from Mumtaz to ‘Taj’. Nor was Mumtaz’s real name Mumtaz Mahal, but Mumtaz-Ul-Zumani.According to a carbon 14 test, by an American laboratory, a wooden piece from the riverside doorway was tested and that revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan, which proves that those doors where put there for some building’s safety reasons, it could have been the Taj Mahal itself, or the Tejo Mahalaya. P.N. Oak believes that the Taj Mahal was officially the Tejo Mahalaya, and was changed to Taj Mahal by Shah Jahan, just to make it his property. Evidences of the Art of the Taj prove that this structure is of Hindu Background. Firstly, the style of the monument is of a Hindu temple, secondly, the four pillars to the side are used to distinguish the holy grounds, and a Hindu wedding altar set up for God Satya Narayan worship have four pillars at the four corners.These were some proofs that Professor P.N. Oak gave in his book to prove the Temple to be Hindu. The government tried to ban the book from India fearing a political backlash, and warned the Indian writer with horrible consequences. The Khaleej Times states that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, also known as the VHP, claims that the Taj Mahal was actually created after breaking down a Hindu temple. They strongly believe that somewhere in the Taj Mahal there are steps leading down to the sealed chambers, and therein are the pillars and artefacts of the temple that once was there. According to the Sunni Waqf Board, the Taj Mahal is a Muslim monument in many respective ways, and the most important is that the Taj beholds the bodies of two Muslims, Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz-Ul-Zumani. Well what is the truth??? Thats a mystery for sure!

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Ancient Indian mathematician Bhaskaracharya, in his book Siddhanta Shriromani, had defined laws of gravity in 12th century, 500 years before Newton defined them for us. The speed of light was known to Indians since Vedic period, centuries before it was calculated by the Western world.

Maitree, a group of professionals from Tata Consultancy Services and Bengaluru-based NGO Sanskrit Bharati have come together with a unique exhibition, Pride of India, to spread awareness about India’s rich scientific heritage.

Manjramkar tells, “Very few of us know that speed of light was known to Indians in Vedic period. A shloka says that the speed of light is 2202 yojana per half nimish.  Yojana is a unit of distance which equals to 9.06 miles and half a nimish (nimishardha) is one tenth of a second. The figure is very close to the modern measurement of speed of light.”

the legend sword

Tipu Sultan’s majestic sword has fetched a record price of 505,250 pounds at an auction by Sotheby’s even though its initial estimate was a modest 50,000 to 70,000. In 2003, the 200-year-old sword was bought with much fanfare by liquor baron Vijay Mallya. It has now been sold for a record price.

Sotheby’s described the item as: “A Very Rare Sword with Tiger-Form Hilt, from the Palace Armoury of Tipu Sultan, India, circa 1782-99, with 19th century silver-mounted Scabbard”.

Sotheby’s said there were a very small number of sword hilts, such as Tipu Sultan’s auctioned sword, which have a pronounced tiger theme that was a mark of Tipu’s ownership.

Another highlight of the auction was rare Indian bronze cannon cast at the Mysore king’s royal foundry. This artefact from around 1790 AD was bought by an anonymous buyer at 313,250 pounds. The Tipu Sultan collection, comprising of seven lots, included weaponry and other rarities captured after the British stormed the erstwhile ruler of Mysore’s palace in Srirangapatnam in May 1799.

An applique and gilt metal-thread embroidered shamiana, from the cloth of gold suite of fabric used by Tipu Sultan in the royal toshkhana, which was estimated to sell for 30,000 to 40,000 pounds, went for 21,250.

The auction fetched 15.4 million pounds, compared to the 1.2 million pounds earned at the first part of the Tipu Sultan auction in 2005.

Though the movie ‘Jurassic Park’ was packed with pseudo-science, one of its fictions may have
accidentally anticipated a dinosaur discovery announced today—venomous raptors.
Though its a far cry from the movie’s venom-spitting Dilophosaurus, the 125-million-year-old
Sinornithosaurus might have attacked like today’s rear-fanged snakes, a new study suggests.
Rear-fanged snakes do not inject venom. Instead, the toxin flows down a telltale groove in a
fang’s surface and into the bite wound, inducing a state of shock.
In Sinornithosaurus fossils, the researchers discovered have an intriguing pocket, possibly a
venom gland, connected to the base of a fang by a long groove, which likely housed a venom
duct, the study says. Sinornithosaurus fangs also feature snakelike grooves in their surfaces.
“The ductwork leading out of the venom gland gave the venom a way to travel to the base of the
teeth, where the venom welled up in the grooves,” says study co-author paleontologist David
Burnham of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center.
“So when they sank their teeth into tissue of the victim, it allowed the venom, which was really
enhanced saliva, to get into the wound.”
Turkey-size Sinornithosaurus, which might have had feathers, lived in the forests of what’s now
northeastern China, and was a member of the family Dromaeosaurida. Birdlike Sinornithosaurus
probably used its longish fangs to put the bite on prehistoric birds. Like rear-fanged snakes and
some lizards, the dinosaur probably had nonfatal venom that could shock its victims into a
defenseless stupor—allowing Sinornithosaurus to eat in peace.

Where do you bury someone like Darwin, a man who admittedly had lost his Christian faith and declared himself an agnostic? When he died on April 19, 1882, his family planned to bury him in the local churchyard beside the graves of his children. Some of Darwin’s countrymen, however, had other ideas and quickly began lobbying leading scientists and members of government to come together and ask the dean of Britain’s Westminster Abbey to allow Darwin to be buried there. The dean, Reverend George Granville Bradley, responded that his “assent would be cheerfully given,” and so Darwin, the agnostic, was buried in Westminster Abbey on the afternoon of April 26. Darwin’s old friend, botanist Joseph Hooker, was among the pallbearers, as were Alfred Russel Wallace, the young naturalist whose writings had pushed Darwin into publishing his own theory, and James Russell Lowell, the United States’ ambassador to Britain. In a part of the Abbey known as Scientists’ Corner, Darwin lies a few feet from the burial place of Sir Isaac Newton and next to that of the astronomer Sir John Herschel. It was Herschel that Darwin referred to in the introduction of The Origin of Species as the great philosopher who coined the phrase “mystery of mysteries” to describe the change of Earth’s species through time