New Delhi: Celebrating the Labour Day this year, Google has posted a doodle on its homepage. The doodle features the Google logo in the shape of a building with several workers on their job. The doodle features an IT professional on her computer, a gardener watering a tree, a painter giving the letter 'O' a paint job and a plumber fixing a leak around the letter 'E'.
There is also a helicopter hovering above the second 'G' and a satellite dish, indicative of modern-day communication, perched on the 'E'.
International Labour Day (also known as May Day or International Workers' Day) celebrates the various labour and left-wing movements across the world. It is mostly observed by holding street marches and demonstrations by working class people and their labour unions. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries including Bolivia, India, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Israel, Philippines, Nepal and Pakistan. It is also celebrated unofficially in various other countries.
Labour Day has its origins in the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. The first May Day celebration in India was organised in Madras by the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan on May 1, 1923. Some records say it was also the first time the red flag was used in India....
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11:32 AM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: It is noon on a bright spring day on the Google Earth Day 2013 doodle. Clicking on the play button on the blazing sun sets the day and the doodle in motion. The sun moves westwards to set and the moon rises in the sky and the cycle of seasons that control so much on the planet is replayed on your browser. The animated Earth Day 2013 Google...
06:41 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Welcoming the New year 2013, Google has posted a new doodle on its homepage. The New Year 2013 doodle is a sequel to the New year's eve doodle 2013, which was as assortment of 35 doodles that appeared during the year 2012. ...
05:54 PM, Dec 31, 2012
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06:13 PM, Dec 09, 2012
The World Population Day is observed on July 11 every year to raise the awareness of people about global population issues. In 1989, in its decision 89/46, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that, in order to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues in the context of overall development plans and programmes and the need to find solutions for these issues, 11...
08:46 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Hyderabad: Yet another male bastion fell in Hyderabad on Women's Day on Thursday with a woman driving a local train of the South Central Railways (SCR). S Satyavati became the first woman loco pilot of SCR when she independently drove a Multi Modal Transit System (MMTS) train. She piloted 'Matrubhumi Ladies Special Train' from Falaknuma to Lingampally suburban stations. Satyavati joined as Assistant Loco Pilot in Bangalore in 1999, and...
08:17 PM, Mar 08, 2012
New Delhi: Boxing is associated with everything that women usually are not, a physical contest often decided by size, strength and the bruises and injuries it results in. For MC Mary Kom, however, it is the unconventional path she chose to achieve her unlikely dreams. Her rise from the humble fields of Kangathei village in Manipur to become Indias most successful and well-known woman boxer in a largely male-dominated sport...
09:43 AM, Mar 08, 2012
New Delhi: Google users from India should be excused if they at the first glance, mistook the International Women's Day doodle to be a Holi doodle. The colourful feel to the Google logo has a Holi feel about it. However the symbol of Venus is the giveaway (in addition to the title text and the link of the image, but we tend to notice them a little later). This year's...
03:58 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Mumbai: Celebrating International Women's Day on Thursday, India's flag carrier Air India plans to operate international flights manned by all-women crew to at least one city in three continents - North America, Europe and Asia, an official said. These flights, originating from Mumbai, would be AI-342 to Singapore, AI-131 to London and an ultra-long haul service AI-191 to Newark, an airlines official said Wednesday. Besides, AI subsidiary Air India Express...
07:32 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Bodh Gaya: Bimla Devi of Bara village in Bodh Gaya block of Gaya district mobilised over 200 women to block traffic movement on the highway skirting their villages for two days. "We allowed traffic to move only after the Block Development Officer (BDO) arrived on the spot and promised in writing a regular supply of oil from the local public distribution system (PDS) shop". Four years ago, the same Bimla...
07:05 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New York: Child marriage, which steals the innocence of millions of girls worldwide and often condemns them to lives of poverty, ignorance and poor health, is one of the biggest obstacles to development, rights groups say. A girl under the age of 18 is married every three seconds -- that's 10 million each year -- often without her consent and sometimes to a much older man, according to the children's...
06:38 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: As the world gears up to celebrate International Women's Day tomorrow, women activists today demanded greater political representation, with a special emphasis on the passage of the bill that promises 33 per cent reservation to women in Parliament. Emphasising the importance of Women's Day in the Indian context, CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat said, "we need to celebrate the fact that in spite of adverse and hostile conditions, women...
06:19 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: If your own words did not quite hit the mark - take a hint from the masters of this art. We give you 25 best poetry quotes that you can use as SMS on Valentine's Day. Pick your favourites and start texting! Shakespeare - "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate..." John Donne - "I conjure thee, and all the oaths...
08:16 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: This Valentine's Day will be special for Manuel Uribe, the world's heaviest man - he will tie the knot with longtime girlfriend Claudia on the special occasion and it will be shown on television. Here are 10 odd things to do on Valentine's Day. World's heaviest man gets hitched From interviews to pre-wedding preparations, all of it would be telecast on History TV18 channel Feb 14. Manuel hit...
08:09 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: From day-long kissing marathons to elaborate plans of marriage proposals, Valentine's Day or St Valentine's Day, named after one of several early Christian martyrs, is marked by romantic rendezvous and unbridled consumerism.Seven couples have brought their lips together in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, some 100 km southeast of Bangkok, hoping to break the world record for longest continuous kiss - which currently stands at nearly two...
07:29 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: This Valentine's Day, couples can snuggle up on park benches and corners unhassled. Moral brigades who crack down on love-struck couples on Valentine's have no intention to play spoilsport on February14, an activist of a right wing group said. One of the reasons behind this change of heart is the bad reputation they were getting. Om Dutt Sharma, Shiv Sena's Delhi convenor, told IANS: "Since last year we...
06:21 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Pattaya: Lips locked at all times -- including for bathroom breaks and meals -- is the less than romantic challenge facing Thai couples trying for the kiss to blow away all kisses at a Valentine's Day marathon. Seven couples have brought their lips together in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, some 100 km (62 miles) southeast of Bangkok, hoping to break the world record for longest continuous kiss -...
06:05 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: Google celebrated the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day with a doodle that invited its users to join tens of thousands people on bridges all over the world to show support for women's causes. The doodle on the Google homepage links to its International Women's Day 2011 site that the search giant has set up in collaboration with the Women for Women International on their 'Join me on...
12:34 AM, Mar 08, 2011
New Delhi: The questioning of arrested former telecom minister A Raja by the CBI continued for the second day on Friday. The interrogated A Raja, his aide RK Chandolia and former telecom secretary Siddharth Behuria jointly. The former minister chose to remain silent and refused to acknowledge that he conspired to rob the exchequer of Rs 22,000 crore as alleged by CBI. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the CBI's investigations...
08:56 PM, Feb 04, 2011
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