Tag Archives: Africa

Top 10 World Leaders 2021 according to Fortune Mag

By | January 12, 2022

According to Fortune Magazine. Many of these are the personalities belonging to different fields which rendered unique contribution in fight against Covid-19. 1. Jacinda Ardern: Prime Minister of Newzealand. She tops the list for the role she played to tackle COVID-19 from spreading in New Zealand. In a nation of 5 million only 2700 cases… Read More »

Identification of Plants and Trees in My Locality

By | September 28, 2020

Innumerable plants grow on the earth. The very diversity is mind boggling. We did not even know the names of plants growing around us. In fact, most of us never bother to even look around. These become just the backdrop of landscape we dwell in. I don’t think that even God, the creator, has given… Read More »

Rastafarians

By | March 4, 2020

Remember Bob Marley with a special hairdo. He was called a Rasta because he practiced Rastafarian religion which began in Jamaica in 1930. Most followers were poor people of African descent brought by the British in West Indies as labours. It is both a religion and a social movement. They were oppressed and it was… Read More »

Jacobin Cuckoo

By | July 17, 2019

Call it Jacobin Cuckoo or Pied Cuckoo or Pied Crested Cuckoo, it is a summer visitor to Indian subcontinent. It comes here all the way from Africa. The bird is called harbinger of rains because timing of its coming here is just few weeks prior to the arrival of monsoon in India. Monsoons bring a… Read More »

Richest Person on Each Continent

By | November 10, 2017

Jeff Bezos: $92.6 billion, technology, North America Jorge Paulo Leman: $30.8 billion, Food and beverage, South America Amancio Ortega: $77.8 billion, fashion,real estate, investment… Europe Aliko Dangote: $13.7 billion, cement, sugar, flour,salt,. … Africa Mukesh Ambani: $41.9 billion, Oil & Gas, Asia Gina Rinehart, $16.6 billion, Mining, Oceania

Plants used for Medicinal Purposes

By | February 16, 2013

The different parts of many plants have been used since ancient times for medicinal purposes. History records many such observations. The first plant is Caesalpinia pulcherrima  plant. It is commonly seen in India. The studies note, contains compounds that have powerful antiviral benefits, especially effective against human herpes viruses and adenoviruses, which cause the common… Read More »