Saturday, April 16, 2011

Mary Kom the Boxing queen of India



“Magnificent Mary” was born to fight.Never having boxed before, she laced up for the first time in 2000. By 2001, she was a national champion. Throughout her decade-long career, she has collected numerous world titles, earned several national recognition awards, given birth to two children and inspired thousands to pursue their dreams. Today, M.C. Mary Kom’s magnificence extends far beyond the boxing ring.
Bold Mangte Chungneijang Mery kom also known as MC Mary Kom or Mary Kom is a female boxer from Manipur, India Mary Kom, is five times World Boxing Champion, successively.

She came back from a two-year sabbatical to clinch her fourth successive World Amateur boxing gold in 2008, a feat that prompted the AIBA to describe her as 'Magnificent Mary'. She was earlier an athlete and switched to boxing after the success of fellow Manipur boxer Dingko Singh.
Mary Kom is the only boxer in the world to have won a medal in each one of the six World Championships.
She is a recipient of the Arjuna Award, the Padma Shri Award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and a special award from AIBA.
A mother of twin sons, a caring wife, her achievements are a great inspiration.

















Achievements:


International
 

  
• Bronze Medal in Women Boxing at London Olympics 2012

• Ist Asian Women Boxing Championship (AWBC), Bangkok 2001
• 2nd AWBC, Hissar, Haryana 2003
• 3rd AWBC, Kaohsing City, Taiwan 2005
• Silver medal - 2001 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Gold medal - 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships, Antalya, Turkey.
• Gold medal - 2005 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships, Podolsk, Russia.
• Gold medal - 2006 World Women's Boxing Championship, New Delhi, India.

• Ist WWB Tournament, Norway 2004
• Venus Cup International Women Box Tourn, Vejla (Denmark ) 2006
• Gold medal - 2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship, Ningbo, China.
• Gold medal - Asian Women's Boxing Championship, Astana, Kazakhstan.
• Bronze medal - 2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou, China[8]
• Gold medal - 2010 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship, Barbados.
• Arjuna Award (Boxing) 2004
• Padma Shree (Sports) 2006
• Contender for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2007
• People of the Year- Limca Book of Records 2007
• CNN-IBN ‘Real Heroes’ Award 2008
• ‘Magnificent Mary’, AIBA 2008
• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 29.8.2009 Sat, New Delhi
• Int’l Boxing Association’s Ambassador for Women’s Boxing 2009
• Sportswoman of the year 2010, Sahara Sports Award 2010


National
• Gold - Ist Women Nat. Boxing Championship, Chennai 2001
• The East Open Boxing Champ, Bengal 2001
• 2nd Sr World Women Boxing Championship, New Delhi 2001
• National Women Sort Meet, N. Delhi 2001
• 32nd National Games, Hyderabad 2002
• 3rd Sr World Women Boxing Champ, Aizawl 2003
• 4th Sr WWBC, Kokrajar, Assam 2004
• 5th Sr WWBC, Kerala 2004
• 6th Sr WWBC, Jamshedpur 2005
• 10th WNBC, Jamshedpur lost QF by 2009

Saturday, August 28, 2010

CONCORDE: The Supersonic Airliner



















The Concorde is a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST). It was a product of an ed of Anglo-French Aircraft manufacturing industies, First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued commercial flights for 27 years.

Among other destinations, Concorde flew regular transatlantic flights from London Heathrow (British Airways) and Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (Air France) to New York JFK and Washington Dulles, profitably flying these routes at record speeds, in less than half the time of other airliners.

With only 20 aircraft built, the development phase represented a substantial economic loss. Additionally, The last retirement flight occurred on 26 November 2003.

The name of Concorde reflects the agreement between Britain and France The aircraft is regarded by many as an aviation icon..

Saturday, July 17, 2010

PSLV Proved it again.


ISRO's PSLV proving its worth as the sole workhorse of the Indian ambitious Space Program.
PSLV-C15 placed 5 satellites into a Polar Sun Synchronous Orbit at a height of about 637 km from the earth surface,on 13 July 2010,
Just look at the PSLV impressive launches in the past.
1. PSLV-D1 Sep 20,1993 (The only unsuccessful launch)

2. PSLV-D2 Oct 15, 1994

3. PSLV-D3 March 21,1996

4. PSLV-C1 Sep 29,1997

5. PSLV-C2 May 26,1999

6. PSLV-C3 Oct 22, 2001

7. PSLV-C4 Sep 12, 2002

8. PSLV-C5 Oct 17,2003

9. PSLV-C6 May 5, 2005

10. PSLV-C7 Jan 10,2007

11. PSLV-C8 April 23, 2007

12. PSLV-C10 Jan 21, 2008

13. PSLV-C9 April 28, 2008

14. PSLV-C11 Oct 22, 2008

15. PSLV-C12 April 20, 2009