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National Parents Day 2021: History, significance, quotes and wishes

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National Parents Day 2021: The day is observed on the fourth Sunday of July each year. This year, it will be celebrated on 25 July. Parents and their important role in our lives is being honoured on this day. Here comes the significance, history, quotes and wishes to be shared with your beloved parents.

National Parents Day 2021 is celebrated to acknowledge the love and warmth our parents have been showering on us. They are our biggest support system in the world. 

National Parents’ Day: History

The US President Bill Clinton in 1994 signed a law after which a resolution was adopted by the US Congress to establish the fourth Sunday of every July as Parents’ Day. This day is quite similar to Mother’s Day and Father’s day. The resolution mentioned that Parents’ Day has been established for “recognising, uplifting and supporting the role of parents in the rearing of children”.

National Parents Day Quotes

  1. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. – Henry Ward Beecher
  2. A parent’s love is whole no matter how many times divided. – Robert Brault
  3. Love your parents and treat them with loving care. For you will only know their value when you see their empty chair. – Anonymous
  4. Nobody on earth can ever love you more than your parents. – Anonymous
  5. Honor your parents. – Anonymous
  6. A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. – Billy Graham

National Parents Day Wishes

  1. Happy Parents Day, Mom and Dad! I am so lucky to have two blessings like you in my life!
  2. Happy Parents Day! May you two live a long, happy, and peaceful life. Thank you for everything!
  3. Nothing compares to the sacrifices our parents have made for us! Happy Parents Day to my parents!
  4. Dear Mother and Father, thank you for always taking care of me and fulfilling my every little need. I couldn’t be luckier! Happy Parent’s Day!
  5. My lovely parents, it is a blessing to be born in this amazing family and having you two in my life. Happy Parent’s Day to you!
  6. Dear parents, thank you for tolerating all my tantrums and bearing all the loud noises I used to make! Happy Parent’s Day to you!
  7. Mom and Dad, Thank You for the greatest gift of all, the gift of unconditional love. Happy Parent’s Day!

Meet Prabas the ‘Most Handsome Asian Male’ & other top 3 handsome hunks of Asia

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Prabhas, Bollywood superstar, has been named as the ‘Most Handsome Asian Male’. This famous list has been released based on ‘Fancy Odds’ which publishes the list annually. Let’s meet the top 5 ‘Most Handsome Male’ in Asia for 2021.

  1. Prabhas: He tops the list of ‘most handsome Asian men’ and makes India proud by beating Pakistan, China and South Korea. Prabhas who became a household name after Bollywood film Bahubali smashed all records. He leads as the most handsome Asian men.

2. Imran Abbas Naqvi: This man from Pakistan is yet again an actor who has been a big fan of Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar who passed away recently. In his twitter post, he recently how he felt sorrowful after reaching a news of Dilip Kumar’s demise.

3. Jin Akanishi: Akanishi from Japan is an actor and singer who made his debut in March, 2006 as a member of KAT-TUN releasing a single album and DVD at the same time. His all three releases reached #1 on the Oricon weekly ranking. By April, the single sold over a million copies.

4. Kim Hyun Joong: Kim Hyun Joong is a popular South Korean actor, singer, and songwriter who appeared in the boy band SS501 and played roles in several Korean dramas.

Mirabai Chanu: She travelled 20 km each day to her training centre in Manipur!

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Mirabai Chanu is a weightlifter from Manipur state of India, a Padma Shri who created history after winning India’s first medal of the Tokyo Olympics when she clinched silver in women’s 49kg weightlifting event on Saturday. Here are some unknown facts regarding her family, her struggle, her parents struggle which helped her to emerge stronger in the run to Olympics:

Mirabai Chanu used to travel 20 kilometre each day from her house in Nongpok Kakching to training centre either on tuk-tuk, bicycle or ride a truck while crossing straw-strewn fields and fish farms to reach Imphal.

Chanu won many World Championships and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games and was also awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the Government of India in 2018.

Her father, Saikhom Kriti Singh worked in the Public Works Department. With six children to raise. his salary was just about enough for hand-to-mouth existence.

Mirabai was 12 when she first visited the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Imphal at the Khuman Lampak Stadium. While she wanted options for archery training but could not find any on the said day.

Incidentally, she saw a few clips of Kunjarani Devi, who won the 2006 Commonwealth Games gold in weightlifting, and then visited the SAI centre again.

Next, Mirabai trained at Chanu’s centre for four years where she would daily traverse 20-odd km between her home and Imphal. Her dreams were realised when she made the cut for Rio 2016. However, things didn’t go as planned for she failed to lift the weight in her designated three attempts in clean and jerk section.

But she continued with her efforts and hence clinched a medal at Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.

Mirabai brings home medal in #Tokyo2020, see how she thanks her mother for her sacrifices

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Mirabai Chan won India’s first medal at the Tokyo Olympics 2021 after she won silver in the women’s weightlifting category. The medal has come home after a wait of 21 years. See how she celebrates her win and gives a warm message to her mother:

Meera Bai Memorial, Meera Mahal in Merta to be restored soon!

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Meera Bai Memorial, Meera Mahal in Merta and Maharana Kumbha Marg Memorial’s restoration work might be started soon as Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari met the Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, G. Kishan Reddy demanding the same.

Rajsamand MP, Diya Kumari met the Union Minister of Tourism and Culture, G. Kishan Reddy and put forth the demand for restoration work of Meera Bai Memorial and Meera Mahal in Merta as well as the approval of Maharana Kumbha Marg Memorial. She also proposed to the Minister the development of a Tourism Circuit consisting of all historical sites related to Maharana Pratap.

During the meeting, the MP said that modern light and sound shows and other tourism activities should be increased in Haldighati and Kumbhalgarh fort. She further suggested that the beautification of streets of various folk artistes located around the Nathdwara Shrinathji temple should be undertaken to attract tourists. This will also increase the employment opportunities of folk artistes. This work of beautification should be done under the Krishna circuit, added Diya Kumari.

While inspecting the documents submitted by the MP in this regard, the Union Tourism Minister G. Kishan Reddy said that all the places associated with Shrinathji, Meera Nagri and Maharana Pratap are important centers of faith and worship. The government will try to develop it holistically so that the avenues of employment can also be opened up

World’s first 3D-printed steel bridge opened in Amsterdam

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World’s first 3D-printed steel pedestrian bridge was unveiled in Amsterdam on the Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal. The opening ceremony of this bridge was attended by the Queen of the Netherlands, Máxima.

The 3D printed steel bridge is made of 6-ton stainless steel structure. Here comes its unique aspects:

The 3D-printed steel bridge features

  1. The length of the bridge stretches to nearly 40 feet.
  2. The bridge is a 6-ton stainless steel structure.
  3. This bridge is constructed by MX3D an Amsterdam based 3D metal printing company.
  4. The entire printing process took just six months as it was made with the help of four robots.
  5. The bridge is designed by the Joris Laarman Lab and was first unveiled during the Dutch Design Week in the year 2018.
  6. There were plans to install the structure in early 2020 after several load-testing rounds were carried out in 2019. However, the ongoing site preparation work at the canal delayed the bridge’s installation.

Tenure of the bridge

The stainless steel structure is named the MX3D Smart Bridge and it will remain in place for minimum of two years while the previous footbridge which was spread over the canal undergoes renovation. During its two-year tenure, this bridge will act as a living laboratory and its performance will be analyzed and monitored in real time by researchers from the Alan Turing Institute’s Data-Centric Engineering Programme, Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge.

The Indian Institute of Heritage coming up in Noida

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The Indian Institute of Heritage shall be set up in Noida which will offer many courses including PhD as well as masters courses for students.

The Indian Institute of Heritage will be set up in Noida by the government which will be a first of kind institution in the country.

This institute will offer many courses which include:

  1. Manuscriptology
  2. Museology
  3. Archaeology
  4. Preventive conservation
  5. Conservation
  6. archival studies
  7. Epigraphy and numismatics
  8. History of arts

Set up of Indian Institute of Heritage

This institute will be set up as deemed university as it will be integrated with the following institutes:

  1. Institute of Archaeology
  2. National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property
  3. Academic Wing of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
  4. National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology.
  5. School of Archival Studies.

They will form the various schools of Indian Institute of Heritage.

Olympics 2032 to be held in Australia’s Brisbane

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Olympics 2032 and Paralympics will be held in Australia’s Brisbane as the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the country for the same

Highlights

  • Brisbane is the third Australian city to host the Games after Sydney in 2000 and Melbourne in 1956.
  • The city’s selection means Australia becomes the second country after the United States, to stage summer Olympic Games in three different cities.
  • Brisbane in 1992 had tried to hot the Olympics but it was awarded to Barcelona.
  • Brisbane’s bid to host the games was repeatedly praised by IOC due to certain favourable factors which include high level support from all government and the private levels, existing venues percentage, favourable weather, experience in organising major events, etc.
  • Brisbane also hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
  • The Australian and the Queensland government will split the cost in a 50:50 ratio.

Host Selection Process

Several countries and their cities had expressed interest in staging the 2032 summer Olympics. They are:

  • Indonesia
  • Budapest (Capital of Hungary)
  • China
  • Doha (Qatar)
  • Ruhr valley region (Germany)

In a new process which the IOC has adopted the cities are not pit against each other against each other.. Unlike the past where the interested cities were selected on the basis of vote, in the new method IOC picks a preferred host city after conducting talks with all the interested cities and then the preferred city are put to vote at its session.

Starting this week, Tokyo is hosting 2020 Olympics; Paris will host the 2024 Games and the 2028 Summer Olympics will be hosted by Los Angeles.

Eid 2021: Twitter abuzz with posts demanding vegetarian Bakra Eid

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Eid al-Adha 2023: Inspiring Wishes, Quotes, Status, Captions, Greetings, SMS, and More

Eid 2021 to be celebrated on July 21 comes with a difference as twitter remains abuzz with posts demanding vegetarian Bakra Eid. Those posting for the same are questioning that if there can be a ‘Crackerless Diwali‘ and ‘Waterless Holi’ why cannot there be a ‘Bloodless Eid’.

https://twitter.com/ManmohanSeer/status/1417525820461969411?s=20

Jeff Bezos & crew return to Earth with historic first human flight to space

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Jeff Bezos, the Billionaire, rocketed into space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard spacecraft built by his company Blue Origin.

Bezos was accompanied by his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old pioneer of the space race Wally Funk and 18-year-old student Oliver Daemen of the Netherlands. The launch took place from Bezos’ private launch site near Van Horn, Texas, and the flight lasted about 10 minutes.

Wanna experience the first human flight experience to space? Let’s see here…!

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