Did you know that there are different types of Formula Racing? Click here to find out the differences
Formula racing is one of the world’s most popular and watched sports. It is an exciting, adrenaline-packed sport that has several levels: Formula One (the most coveted and highest level of racing), Formula E, Formula Two, Formula Three, regional Formula Three, and Formula Four.
There are several differences between each format, right from the type of cars, racing formats, and speeds.
Can you guess the differences between these three racing formats by sorting the features into the right boxes?
It’s time for some art but don’t reach for your colours. Check out this crossword instead.
Whether indoors or out, colour plays a huge part in our lives. And each colour has so many different shades. Here is a crossword based on art and the various terms used in it. Go on, see how many you can solve!
With the New Moon just around the corner, savour some celestial delights this month.
November spells the onset of winter. While the northern hemisphere reels in cold and harsh winters, the south welcomes the sun as temperatures begin to rise. The night sky also a time of astronomical activity, with active meteor showers, planetary close approaches and a few more surprises.
Let’s learn about the baggage we carry on airplanes! Here are the do’s and don’ts…
Airports are very busy places. Passengers bustle around, lugging their bags, while hurrying to catch their flights. Let’s learn a little more about baggage in air travel!
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Even in the urban jungle of our cities, one can spot many birds that bring joy, colour and music into our lives.
Each morning, if I haven’t already been shaken out of my slumber by the sonorous ‘koo-oo-oo, koo-oo’ of the Koel at 4.00 a.m., I wake to the cheery ‘cheer, cheer’ of sparrows jostling with each other on my balcony while they breakfast on the bird feed. The next ritual is diving into the water bowl and shaking themselves vigorously, sending forth fountains of spray.
Soon it is time for the gang of squawking parakeets to feast on peanuts with dramatic gestures; sometimes fondling each other affectionately, or quarrelling vociferously and tugging at each other’s tails. This party of green is rudely interrupted when a solitary Jungle Crow enters the scene. Noisily flapping their wings, the parakeets take off in haste.
From not very far off, I hear the shrill soprano chattering of the White-breasted Kingfisher happily swinging on the TV cable and announcing success at hunting down its prey — be it a dragonfly, lizard or fish.
<>Once the early-morning performers exit their stage, I step out for a whiff of fresh air and what do I see? A pair of Red-vented Bulbuls taking turns to stand guard over their chicks in their cup-shaped nest inside the bougainvillea bush and hunt for food.
I gaze at the swaying mango leaves and get a glimpse of something yellow. It’s a Black-hooded Oriole! The bird doesn’t quite approve of my excitement and goes back into hiding, voicing its protest in fluty tones.
Later, as I sit to work at my computer, I am startled by a clear and loud ‘To-meet, to-meet, to-meet’. I watch, amused, as my latest visitor — the Tailor Bird — tries to meet its lady love. When this song ends, the Magpie Robin, clad in a coat of lack-and-white feathers, begins its plaintive heart-wrenching ballad. It likes to do this from atop the coconut tree fronds while its lady love, not far off, listens in stupefied awe.
In the afternoon, I settle down for a siesta and who should come along but the Purple-rumped Sunbird for its drink of nectar from the Thunbergia flowers. It announces its arrival with a high-pitched ‘chee-chee’. In spite of its long, curved beak, it has learnt to ‘nip in the bud’ by taking a short cut directly into the nectar in the calyx — thus saving time and energy.
Many more of my feathered friends reside in my colony and bring great joy, colour and music to my life. They have shown amazing resilience and are the urban survivors, enduring the loud sounds of drilling, construction work, and honking cars, and the decline in the number of trees.
Image Credit: The Hindu Photo Archives and Wikimedia Commons
It’s Quiz Time, folks! Check your general knowledge with these questions.
Time to give your brain some exercise. Here are six questions that will do the job.
If your otherwise happy pets seem distressed during Deepavali, they might need your help. Watch this video to learn more.
How can one stay at home and still keep fit? Here are some tips.
The world is humming with activity, as usual. From natural disasters to military coups, summits and enacting new laws, there’s never a dull moment on Planet Earth. Read on…
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26 and the Glasgow Conference, is the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. The meeting is from October 31 to November 12 and could lead to major changes to our everyday lives. A survey of over 30,000 people from 31 countries showed that 56% want their countries to play a leadership role.
In China, smaller cities have been restricted from building “super high-rise buildings”, as part of a larger bid to crackdown on vanity projects.
And in other news, the UK’s new polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, has completed basic sea trials and is ready to undertake her first expedition.
A crossword on the festival of lights. Check how many clues you can answer.
It’s Deepavali in a few days and time to have fun. Here’s a crossword themed on the festival of lights. How many of these clues can you answer?
