Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll was one of the musical icons of the world during his time. This American great breathed his last on August 16, 1977, after indulging in prescription drug abuse for several years and thus affecting his health badly. It is often believed that Presley falsified his own death […]
Category: Disasters
Disasters Around the World is a collections of well researched articles in slides format related to disasters.
Could Paris attacks have been prevented?
It was a kind of terrorist attack France had never witnessed before. Terrorists had staged coordinated strikes at six different locations across Paris, killing at least 129 people and injuring more than 300 others. Earlier in January, terrorists had also targeted the office of France’s popular weekly satirical magazine called Charlie Hebdo. Eleven people […]
Crimes of Moral Turpitude
Moral crimes against women have existed through time in several parts of the world. The problem with moral crimes is that it has different interpretations in different societies, where a thin line divides what is acceptable and what is condemnable. Either ways, victims are mostly girls or women, while in some cases, it involves boys, […]
Paris Attacks – November 2015
Over the past decade, the world has seen many dark nights of terrorism soiled by innocent blood. The night of November 13, 2015, was one such night of horror in the history of France. Through the evening of November 13 right into the early hours of November 14, a series of coordinated shootings and blasts […]
Major Storms and Hurricanes of 2015
Each year, ahead of the hurricane/storm season, countries across the world gear up to combat the fury and destruction that these cyclones could unleash and to safeguard life and property. In 2015, the Atlantic hurricanes were rather tame due to a strong El Nino phenomenon, meteorologists say. Further east, however, the cyclonic storms in the […]
ISIS Claims Russian Plane Shooting
Russian authorities are mum; they are neither believing in the claims of ISIS nor the on-going murmur about the involvement of some state-sponsored hands in the downing of Russian plane over Egypt which led to the death of all 224 passengers on board. Amid claims and tide of speculations, some aviation experts’ argue that ill-fated […]
Where is the Bermuda Triangle located
The Bermuda Triangle is a legendary location on the North Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately surrounded by Miami, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda on three sides. It has earned a sufficient amount of infamy owing to the disappearance of dozens of airplanes and ships. Till date there have been no logical explanations of these accidents. One […]
Boko Haram – all you need to know about it
Boko Haram is also known as Wilayat Gharb Afriqiyaah, a name that it has given itself. The name means the West Africa Province of the Islamic state. In a way, it can be regarded as being similar to the ISIL (Islamic State of Israel and the Levant). Boko Haram is also referred to as Jama’at […]
Life after Fukushima
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in March 2011 was one of the worst nuclear disasters of recent times. The plant was one of Japan’s premier nuclear energy producing stations and among the top 15 power plants in the world. Commissioned in 1971 to help fuel the nation’s growing […]
Climate Change over the Century
For years now scientists and governments have discussed and debated the effects of climate change and global warming. Very little has been done, however, in terms of combating the effects of rapid industrialization and human intrusion on the environment. The human populace at large is yet to wake up to the fact that such uninhibited […]