Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Apa Sherpa of Nepal climbed Mount Everest for the 21st time. He holds the record for the most number of conquests of the summit.
The Conservative Party's David Cameron became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after Gordon Brown resigned.
India conducted three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
IBM Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeated Garry Kasparov becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
Eight people died on a single day on Mount Everest when they were caught in a blizzard.
The world's longest liner (316.1 m) until 2004, S.S. France was officially launched by President de Gaulle.
Sepoy mutineers captured Delhi and proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar as emperor of independent India.
Rangoon, the capital city of Burma was captured by British naval forces under Sir Archibald Campbell.
Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, from whom the term 'Siamese twins' originated, were born in Siam(modern Thailand).
The first printed book, The Diamond Sutra, was published in China.
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.