Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Terrorists attacked ten key locations in Mumbai including Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus and the Taj and Oberoi Hotels, killing 174 people and injuring more than 300.
Indian industrialist Vijaypat Singhania set a new hot air balloon record as he reached a height of 21,000 metres.
Concorde, a supersonic passenger airliner made its final flight from Heathrow to Bristol, England.
Steve Waugh, former captain of the Australian Test cricket team, announced his retirement from international cricket.
The Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) service was introduced for the first time between Kanpur and Lucknow.
China entered the Korean war alongside the North Koreans and attacked advancing UN troops.
The Constitution of independent India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly making India a sovereign democratic republic.
Lebanon declared its independence from France.
American cartoonist, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, Charles Schulz was born.
Maurice "Mac" J. McDonald, an American fast food pioneer, who jointly established the first McDonald’s restaurant with his brother, was born.
An enduring children's classic Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll was published.
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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.