Ouguri Hill - Tezpur , Assam

 

Ouguri Hills is popular sightseeing destination of Tezpur, situated on the banks of Brahmaputra River. The specialty of this hill is a statue of Kanaklata, placed on its top. Kanaklata was a martyr in the Quit India Movement. Its hill top also provides a complete view of the Brahmaputra River and Tezpur town. Its rugged terrains are also popular amongst rock climbers.  

Kanaklata: On 10 September 1942, at Gohpur , assam a young girl named Kanaklata Barua from the village of Barangabri led a procession of unarmed villagers under the Congress flag. As soon as Kanaklata unfurled the flag she and her companion Mukunda Kakati were gunned down by armed police. Their death is still remembered with pride. On the same day at Dhekiajuli Police Station eleven unarmed villagers were gunned down by armed police while trying to hoist the tri-color at the police station. Three teenage girls, Tileswari, Numali and Khahuli, were killed in this incident and are especially commemorated by the locals.

Kolia Bhomora Setu -Tezpur, Assam

Kolia Bhomora Setu is a pre-stressed concrete road bridge over the Brahmaputra River near Tezpur in Assam (India). It is named after the Ahom General Kolia Bhomora Phukan. This bridge connects Sonitpur on the north bank with Nagaon District on the south bank. The length of this bridge is 3015 meters.
 

The construction of the bridge took place from 1981 to 1987. The river having a catchments area of 3.8 lakh km² flows in the most unpredictable manners, occupying 12 km to 16 km of space at places and poses a challenge to the bridge engineers. Despite the pioneering efforts of the Railways at SaraiGhat, the Northeast continued to suffer from the long-felt lack of transportation network. Quarter of a century later, INDIAN RAILWAYS have turned yet another dream into reality. The 2nd Brahmaputra Bridge has greatly accelerate march of the North eastern states towards 21st century.

Google+ Hangouts Can Now Be Initiated From YouTube

Google has quietly rolled out yet another feature of its Google+ social network, letting users click Share from any YouTube video, revealing an icon that suggests watching the video with friends in a Google+ hangout.

Google didn’t formally announce this new feature, instead revealing it via product manager Brian Glick on — where else — Google+, where he casually mentioned it like so:

You can now start a Google+ Hangout with a YouTube video, directly from YouTube. Watch with your friends. :)

Just click on “Share” underneath any video, and then click on “Start a Google+ Hangout” in the bottom right-hand corner.

A few weeks ago, YouTube Live product manager Brandon Badge quietly mentioned the upcoming ability to enable hangouts from YouTube with live streaming video, and this must be the first stage of that initiative.

As we mentioned then, it’s been possible to watch videos with friends since the beginning of Google+, through a more complicated manual process that must be initiated in Google+. But this new button allowing you to initiate hangouts from YouTube with a couple of clicks makes it considerably easier.

What Is SEO - Search Engine Optimization?

If you have been wanting to learn SEO, you have come to the right place. We will discuss Search Engine Optimization in this article and try to find out what it takes to get yourself placed well in the search engines.


A few things you need to realize, especially if you are working with a SEO firm, is that it takes time to get results. In SEO, or any industry that I know of, it takes efforts and time to see consistent results. Also, things like guaranteed first place don’t exist. No one in their right minds can accurately predict the ranks for any particular website for a keyword.

We got a little off the tangent there. Back to the topic, Search Engine Optimization is very powerful if done correctly. Most people, unfortunately, put in efforts in the wrong direction. Instead of making the website good, they spam blogs, directories and everything else they come across to get a backlink. Things don’t work that way... not in the long term.



Stop for a second and think about what the purpose of search engines is. They want their users to get more relevant results for whatever they are searching. Now, if you make it so that the site is more relevant (without spamming everything to death), wouldn’t that benefit more? The biggest search engine, Google, recently bought Feedburner. That was for a reason, of course. You may have guessed already but in case you haven’t, let me make it easy for you: They are tracking users’ activity on your site.

Why you ask? Simple, really. That will tell them how much time people are spending on your website, if they are coming back or not, etc. If people are spending a lot of time on your website, they found something relevant to what they were looking for. If not, time to improve your site! You want to make sure your website is good for the visitors first. Also, you want to know your market and make sure you’re catering to them. If you are, you’d not face any problems once you have ranked.

Though there is virtually unlimited supply of traffic on the Internet, you must not fall into the illusion that you don’t need to make your visitors stick. You must, in fact, put in all efforts to ensure your visitors come back time and again after they have found your website once, be it through any source. This will mean you don’t have to rely on search engines after a certain period of time. Depending on third parties is a hugely disadvantageous position for any business.

SEO is mostly divided into two broad categories. One is on-page and the other is off-page. On page is defined by and confined to a specific set of rules. Off-page, on the other hand, isn’t limited to anything but your creativity. You have to get backlinks from varied sources and they spruce up your rankings.

There are a few things you should do and there are a few others that you must not. Some of the do not’s include cloaking, hiding text, spamming for backlinks, etc. Mostly common sense, really. Some of the must do’s include having unique and relevant content, which is structured in a way that users find easy to navigate. Having clean URLs and a sitemap is good, too.

By no means am I trying to cover everything in SEO in one article. Covering SEO in full is way, way beyond the scope of this, or any such article. I’m, however, trying to give you a good start on the basics of how search engines work and what you should do before doing anything else.


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Emma Watson ELLE Style Awards 2011 in London.

When Emma Watson chopped her long locks last summer, it was to mark the end of her Harry Potter days — contractually, she couldn’t cut her hair while playing Hermione. But since debuting her pixie cut in August, the actress has been trying to grow the ‘do a bit — this time, to get acting roles.

At the ELLE Style Awards in London last night, where Watson received the Style Icon award from Vivienne Westwood, the starlet revealed to reporters that she’s liking her extra length.

“I am trying to grow it but it’s slow, it’s taking a while obviously,” she told ELLE.

Amazing facts about India

The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat. INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya yuga ( Golden Age ) More INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT India : -
The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.
The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero. More facts after the break...

Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software. ( a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987 ).
Chess was invented in India.
Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.
The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
The first six Mogul Emperor's of India ruled in an unbroken succession from father to son for two hundred years, from 1526 to 1707.
The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.
India is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old).
The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births.
The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.
India has the most post offices in the world !
The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people !.
The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The father of medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
Although modern images & descriptions of India often show poverty, India was one of the richest countries till the time of British in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth and was looking for route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.
The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).
Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world. ( Source . Gemological Institute of America )
The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.
Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.
Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

World's Tallest Dog

Standing at nearly 43 inches tall from paw to shoulder and weighing a staggering 245lbs could this be the world's new tallest dog? Pictured here in the parks of Tuscon, Arizona, George, a four-year-old blue great dane, looks more like a miniature horse than a dog.
'Giant George' and owner Dave Nasser share a couch together: The four-year-old blue great dane, weighs a staggering 245lbs and measures almost 43ins at the shoulder. The gentle giant, who measures 7ft 3ins from nose to tail, could be a prime contender to take the title from the former record holder, Gibson, a harlequin Great Dane who passed away from cancer last August.

Now George's owners, David and Christine Nasser, are awaiting confirmation from Guinness World Records to see if he has achieved the lofty heights.

'He's 42.625 inches at the shoulder,' said David. 'He's very very unique.'

According to David, George consumes 110lbs of food every month, and sleeps alone in his own Queen Size Bed. David and Christine raised George from when he was 7 weeks old, but never expected him to grow so big.






Magnificent: George measures more than 7ft from nose to tail and tucks away 110lbs of food every month




With size comes problems: The giant great dane barely fits in the back of his owner's SUV

The couple eventually had to move their aptly named dog out of their king sized bed, when he grew too large for the three of them to share the same sheets.

Dr. William Wallace of the Buena Pet Clinic in Tucson, who witnessed the documentation necessary for the Guinness record, said: 'In my 45 years of experience working with giant breed dogs, without question, George is the tallest dog I have ever seen.'

David is currently rushing to get that necessary documentation into Guinness as other dog owners are coming forth claiming the record. As they wait for the results to come through, George is busy occupying himself with his new found stardom and even has a Facebook fan page and Twitter accounts for his adorning fans. It appears as though the sky's the limit for this mammoth hound.






Paws for thought: George's giant feet dwarf his owner Dave Nassar's hand. Last August the worldís tallest dog, Gibson, a harlequin Great Dane, passed away from cancer