Meet Nischal Narayanam, India’s Youngest Chartered Accountant….

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He’s the country’s youngest Chartered Accountant but he needs to wait two more years before he can enrol in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), which needs its members to be at least 21. Nischal Narayanam is only 19 years old, but he already has a postgraduate degree in commerce from Osmania University in Hyderabad.

“The journey wasn’t easy and a tough one. But I was determined to achieve it,”Nischal told The Hindu.

Narayanam’s gifted mind was recognised early. He was eight years old when he passed several Sanskrit exams equivalent to a masters degree. By the time he was nine, he was already correcting mistakes in his father’s company balance sheet. At 10, he was the world memory champion among kids, had authored volumes of books on mathematics, and had designed and developed a mathematics laboratory. That year he won his first Guinness World Record by memorising 225 random objects in just over 12 minutes.

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Nischal memorises 132 random digits as he prepares for his second Guinness World Record.

The next year he was awarded the national child award for exceptional achievement.

As he entered his teenage years, Narayanam passed the Cambridge University examination and qualified the basic level exam for becoming a CA. He also won another Guinness World Record — this time for memorising 132 digits in just a minute. Two years later, at 15, he passed the second level of the CA exam, and became the youngest mentor to a company — Nischal’s Smart Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd — which offers tools to make learning easier.

He is listed as one of the “7 brilliant brains of the world” by the National Geographic Channel, and has his own philanthropic organisation to help kids to study at free summer camp

Source….Indrani Basu in http://www.huffingtonpost.in

Natarajan

Spaceman Gennady Padalka creates world record by spending 804 days on ISS….

 

Spaceman Gennady Padalka creates world record by spending 804 days on ISS

ARussian cosmonaut has achieved an astonishing feat by spending most number of days on the International Space Station (ISS). Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has officially set a new Guinness world record by spending 804 days on the ISS.

Padalka, who is also the commander of the crew on the ISS, surpassed cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, former Russian Air Force officer who spent 803 days, nine hours and 41 minutes in the space, across six mission from 1998 to 2005. In addition, Padalka is scheduled to return to earth in September this year and by then he would have spend a total of 877 days in space.

Born on June 21, 1958, in Krasnodar, Russia; Padalka graduated from Eisk Military Aviation College in 1979; in 1994 he left UNESCO International Center of Instruction Systems, where he was an engineer–ecologist. After graduation from the Military College in 1979, Gennady Padalka served as a pilot and a senior pilot in the Air Force. In 1989, he was selected as a cosmonaut candidate to start training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. In 1991, Padalka was qualified as a test cosmonaut. Since then he never looked back and became the most experienced cosmonaut.

Coming to his personal life, Padalka is married to Irina Anatolievna Padalka (Ponomareva). They have three daughters, Yulia, Ekaterina and Sonya. Gennady enjoys the theater, parachute sport and diving.

Moreover, ISS is a space station that was launched in 1998.ISS is the largest artificial satellite body that orbits earth nearly 400 km above the surface and it can be seen with naked eye. Recently a man clicked a photo of ISS orbiting the earth. ISS moves at a very high speed and it completes 15.54 orbits per day.

Source….www.tecake.com

Natarajan

 

Picture of the Day…World”s Tallest and Shortest Man Meet !!!

(Very) high five: Mr Dangi, who measures just 22.5 ins, and 8ft 1in tall Mr Kosen, meet in London today 

  • Part-time farmer Sultan Kösen, from Ankara, Turkey, measures 8ft 1in
  • Chandra Dangi, who is just 21.5ins tall, lives in remote Nepalese village

 

It was a meeting of epic proportions.

The world’s tallest and shortest men met for the first time this morning to commemorate Guinness World Record Day.

Sultan Kösen, who is 8ft 1in. tall, and Chandra Dangi, who measures just 21.5ins., posed for photos outside the Houses of Parliament to mark the book’s 60th anniversary.

First time ever: Mr Kosen and Mr Dangi  met to commemorate the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day

SOURCE::::STEPHANIE LINNING  in http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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