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I was just scrolling through the Times of India's website, where I suddenly saw a headline "Hefty penalties SOON  for destruction of Forests. I was just thinking, we is the word 'soon' added to the headline? We can't we just do it now, TODAY. Do you know, one tree is cut down every five minutes. So, by the end of a year, the total number of forests that is cut down goes more than 100. Elders have taught us this particular phrase- Never Keep Anything for Tomorrow That Can Be Done Today. But no one is keeping by this phrase. When we see someone cutting a tree, we may think, "Oh, Its just one tree! Nothing is going to happen if that is cut off." But remember, something will happen, if we continue to think like that and if we do not conserve trees. If I were given a chance to edit a dictionary, I would probably remove the word "soon" and replace it with a "today". Always remember- If your future generation wants to live peacefully w...

At last the hot weather has calmed down and it has been raining heavily in Kerala for the past two days. Also, the Legislative Assembly Elections are also going on and everyone are anxious to know whether the rains are going to affect the counting. The meteorology department of Kerala has issued a warning to the fisherman not to go fishing as the waves can go upto 3 meters high in the coastal areas. It is the same situation in Tamil Nadu, Kolkata, and Assam. Relief camps and ... rescue operation are put on standby in TN, just in case anything happens like the flood that occurred in December. In Assam, 16 are injured due to landslides. Kolkata is bracing itself for the storms that are expected to move in the north-east direction. The misery is not only in the Indian states but also in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The torrential rainfall has caused a massive landslide due to which more than 200 families have gone missing. This has occurred in a very remote area in Sri Lanka due to which res...

The space is really interesting to know more as well as to learn about it. We feel thrilled and excited when we get to see the heavenly activities such as the eclipses, transitions by planets or other heavenly bodies such as comets or asteroids. Some transitions occur only in a lifetime whereas some occur frequently. * * * We experienced the once in a lifetime transit of Venus through  the Sun on 5 and 6 of June 2012, but it was not that clearly visible from Southern India due to the clouds formed by the south west monsoons. We are about to experience another transition which is currently on its way towards Sun by Mercury. * * * The Mercury Transition will be seen on 9th of May and will be seen as a small dot on the Sun due to the difference in the angular length of Mercury and Earth. It will be viewable from most parts of Asia(except Japan), South America, North America, South Pacific, North Pacific. * * * The Mercury transition will consist of four stages: Contact I ...