#Kanpur

The Indian army had already sealed the international border from Kashmir to Ganga Nagar, Rajasthan. At least seven divisions of army were deployed in villages of Punjab. By nightfall media and the press were gagged and rail, road and air services in Punjab were suspended. There had been growing concern in Alaska over the lack of military defense, as a territory vulnerable to Axis invasion. Gruening had been pushing for defense facilities in Alaska since his appointment to the governorship, and because of Hitler’s actions, Congress designated funds to build army forts and airfields in the territory. [Read More]

His parents were particular about education and sent him to Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE) in Pondicherry. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, and did his Ph.D. from Cornell University. This was largely the result of the contradiction between the expansion of clerical and technical jobs and the exclusion of black and unskilled workers from those jobs. Beginning in the North in the late 1950s and 1960s, the movement was characterized by the refusal of black, Hispanic, and women workers to settle for wages below the national minimum. [Read More]

Samuel Horrocks patented a fairly successful loom in 1813. Horock’s loom was improved by Richard Roberts in 1822 and these were produced in large numbers by Roberts, Hill & Co. The demand for cotton presented an opportunity to planters in the Southern United States, who thought upland cotton would be a profitable crop if a better way could be found to remove the seed. Victoria also hosts the peak media teaching body known as ATOM which publishes Metro and Screen Education magazines. [Read More]