Few bits about MR. David Cameron-the youngest PM of Britain

 (Conservative leader David Cameron and wife Samantha Cameron, another Sarkozy-Bruni in the making) 

“The fact that we are both democracies makes a huge difference in our relationship”- 

Commenting on India

• On 11 May 2010, following the resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister and on his recommendation, Queen Elizabeth II invited Cameron to form a government.
• At age 43, Cameron became the youngest British Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool, who was appointed in 1812. In his first address outside 10 Downing Street, he announced his intention to form a coalition government, the first since the Second World War, with the Liberal Democrats.
• Cameron outlined how he intended to "put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and for the national interest. "Thus as one of his first moves Cameron appointed Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democratic leader, as Deputy Prime Minister on 11 May 2010.
• Between them, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats control 363 seats in the House of Commons, with a majority of 76 seats. 

• He was elected leader of the Conservative Party in December 2005, and has been a Member of Parliament for the Witney constituency since 2001. Before he became an MP, he was a Special Adviser  to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and then to the Home Secretary.
• He took a break to work in media for seven years, then stood for election in 2001 on an agenda of tax-cutting. (During the election, he also wrote a column for the Guardian.) As a new MP, he took several controversial positions, such as coming out in favor of the "harm reduction" drug policy. He became a member of the shadow cabinet (an alternative cabinet to the party in power) in 2003, and two years later became head of the party.

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Our National Anthem Writer- RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Born: May 7, 1861

Died: August 7, 1941

 On 7th May, 2010, it was the 150th Birth Anniversary of third Father of the Nation(after Jawahar Lal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi, some even consider Ambedkar also as a father, but its one's personal opinion)

                                                                  

A Glimpse 

• He was the ninth son of Debendranath and Sarada Devi.

• Rabindranath Tagore was an icon of Indian culture. He was a poet, philosopher, musician, writer, and educationist. Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian to became Nobel laureate when he won Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913. 

• He was popularly called as Gurudev and his songs were popularly known as Rabindrasangeet. Two songs from his Rabindrasangit canon are now the national anthems of India and Bangladesh: the Jana Gana Mana and the Amar Shonar Bangla.

• In 1915 he was awarded knighthood by the British King George V. In 1919, following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Tagore renounced his knighthood.

• 1n 1921, Rabindranath Tagore established Viswabharati University. He gave all his money from Nobel Prize and royalty money from his books to this University.

• Tagore was not only a creative genius, he was quite knowledgeable of Western culture, especially Western poetry and science too. Tagore had a good grasp of modern - post-Newtonian – physics and was well able to hold his own in a debate with Einstein in 1930 on the newly emerging principles of quantum mechanics and chaos. His meetings and tape recorded conversations with his contemporaries such Albert Einstein and H.G. Wells, epitomize his brilliance.,

• In 1940 Oxford University arranged a special ceremony in Santiniketan and awarded Rabindranath Tagore with Doctorate Of Literature. Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore passed away on August 7, 1941 in his ancestral home in Calcutta.

If you have some interesting facts about him, please feel free to share it with us.

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Commonwealth Games Fact File

Contributed By- Vishal Suri

Commonwealth Games Are Being Organized In Our Own City, Delhi

So how many of us actually know about the Commonwealth Games?

Motto	Humanity-Equality-Destiny
Headquarters	London, England
Commonwealth Secretariat	Hon. Michael Fennell, OJ, CD

History:

The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name of the Commonwealth Games in 1978

Participants:

• There are currently 54 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and 71 teams participate in the Games.
• At the 1930 games, women competed in the Swimming events only. From 1934, women also competed in some Athletics events
• Only six teams have attended every Commonwealth Games: Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. Australia has been the highest scoring team for ten games, England for seven and Canada for one.

What's Unique About The CWG?

• The four constituent countries of the United Kingdom – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – send separate teams to the Commonwealth Games (unlike at the Olympic Games, where the United Kingdom sends a single team), and individual teams are also sent from the British Crown dependencies – Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man – and many of the British overseas territories.
• The Australian external territory of Norfolk Island also sends its own team, as do the Cook Islands and Niue, two states in free association with New Zealand

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In 2014 the Games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland