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We wish all our  readers a very happy Kanakadasa jayanthi.
Kanaka Dasaru was great poet, philosopher, musician and composer from Karnataka. He is known for his Kirtanes and Ugabhoga compositions in the Kannada language for Karnataka Music.

Original Name: Thimmappa Nayaka
Caste: Kuruba (warrior community) family
Parents:  Father :  Biregowda
Mother : Beechamma
Birth Place: Kaginele in Haveri district.
Period: 1509-1609 A.D

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Have you heard of Sudarsan Patnaik, if not read about him on Wikiepdia. He is a World Famous Sand sculptorer, born in Puri in the state of Orissa.
He was inspired by the voice of his inner soul and he started visiting the sea beach at Puri every day since his childhood days. [...]

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Google wrote on it’s CitizenTube blog, the United Nations has chosen it’s YouTube Citizen ambassadors, the winners were announced on October 16th.
On 23rd September, U.N. Ambassador George Clooney had asked citizens to post videos of “What they would say to the United Nations General Assembly?, if they were given the chance to do so” [...]

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With huge regards, the team of India Daily wishes it’s readers a very happy Diwali, the festival of lights. Remembering Diwali, you all would get a picture of crackers and colourful lightnings all over.
Diwali or Deepavali is a significant festival in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism & Jainism, and also an official holiday in India. [...]

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Microsoft, the Software giant today launched a new and free online service H1N1 Response Center which assesses the symptoms users report and based on the answers, offers guidance for those considering whether to visit a health care provider or not.
The service has mainly 2 goals:
1) Provide quick & easy information to help people [...]

After the successful launch of Oceansat-2 on September 23, the satellite recently sent good quality of data through the Payloads. All the three payloads on-board the Oceansat-2, namely

Ocean Colour Monitor
Scatterometer
Radio Occultation Sounder for Atmospheric Studies

have been successfully turned on providing good quality data. It may be recalled that the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C14) launched from Satish Dhawan Space [...]

We all know how suffering it becomes when it doesn’t rain and when it does, we thank God because it rained. But, imagine how bad would it be if it didn’t stop even after heavy showers for 4-5 days continuously. This is what that’s been happining in some parts of Karnataka & [...]

Today, October 4th is celebrated as the birth anniversary of Maharishi Valmiki and this festival is popularly known as Pargat  Diwas in northern India.
We wish our readers A very happy Valmiki Jayanti.
Usually it’s celebrated on the full moon day (Purnima) in the Hindi month of Ashwin which falls in September or October.
Maharashi Valmiki is also [...]

The team of India Daily wishes it’s faithful readers “A very Happy Gandhi Jayanti, Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Jayanti and International day of Non Violence” as well!!
Gandhi jayanti, one  of the most popular occasions in India celebrated as the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi popularly known as Father of our Nation. His principles [...]

On September 28th, 1929 one of the best singer ever Lata Mageshkar was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh!!
The team of India Daily gives it’s tribute to the “Melody Queen“!! Fans all over the country celebrated her birthday. Suman Chaurasi, a fan who has a collection of over 28,000 albums of the legendary singer, paid [...]