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The Delhi Metro is now a part and parcel of every Delhite’s life. Just like the local trains in Mumbai which are the city’s lifeline, the Delhi Metro has become a quintessential part in the Capital’s day-to-day activities.

Kiran Bedi, the iron-willed police officer, the icon of the modern Indian women strongly believes in Gandhiji’s dictum, ‘hating the sin and not the sinner”.

Born into a Brahmin family in Mysore on August 20, 1946, he graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967 after attending a government school.

Born on April 19, 1957 in Yemen, Mukesh was a bright child. Having grown under the tutelage of his astute businessman father, Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh learnt the tricks of trade from him.

The test of a successful person is not his ability to eliminate all problems before they arise but to meet and work out difficulties when they arise. This is exactly true of our 12th president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Born in an ordinary family of fisherman of Rameshwaram town in Tamilnadu on October 15, 1931 […]

Kalpana Chawala was born in 1961 in Karnal, a small town in Haryana. She attended a local school, Tagore Ball Nietan where she was an above average student with a fascination for airplanes.

Ms. Pratibha Devising Patil, the 12th President of Republic of India is the first Female President of India. With the swearing in of Ms. Patil as the first citizen of India, the male bastion in the Rashtrapti Bhawan has also been successfully stormed.

Bharat Ratna Mother Teresa the saint gutter, had conquered the hearts of people by her selfless service and dedication. Quite early in her life, she had vowed to service the humanity and it is a matter of joy that she could fulfill her vow. till the last moment of her life she was fully devoted […]

Neha Kapur has been crowned the Pond’s Femina Miss Indian Universe at the Miss India Beauty Pageant in Mumbai on March 18, 2006.

Perhaps the most significant individual of the 20th century, Albert Einstein’s contributions to science reshaped physics in ways that continue to be explored and led to the development of atomic energy and the atomic bomb.

Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a leading Indian nationalist and critic of the British economic exploitation of India.

Benjamin Franklin was the ultimate American figure of the Enlightenment. Renowned on both sides of the Atlantic, he used his enormous energy and talents for philosophy, politics, and diplomacy in service to the new United States and was involved in every aspect of its successful separation from the British Empire.

Isaac Newton was born in 1642 at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, three months after his father, yeoman farmer Isaac, died.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the former leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), or Indian People’s Party, a pro-Hindu political movement that seeks to define Indian culture and society according to Hindu religious values.

India’s 14th prime minister since independence in 1947, Manmohan Singh was born on September 26, 1932, in the Punjab before the partition of the subcontinent.

“Vivekananda was the first Hindu whose personality won demonstrative recognition abroad for India’s ancient civilization and for her new born claim to nationhood”-this is what Sir Valentile Chirol said for Vivekananda.