Plane disappears
On March 8, 2014, the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala
Lumpur International Airport to Beijing. The plane made its last contact
when it crossed the Malay Peninsula. Search is still on for the plane,
its crew and 227 persons on board.
Death by a bouncer
When Australian players Sean Abbott and Phil Hughes played the game on
November 25, 2014, noone would have imagined a bouncer can take life.
Australia Test batsman Phil Hughes, who got hit by Abbott’s bouncer
during a Sheffield Shield match between South Australia and NSW,
succumbed to injuries two days later.
Pepper spray in Parliament
The Indian parliament has witnessed terror attack some years back. But
pepper spray attack is probably new to every parliament in the world.
The Lok Sabha witnessed an unprecedented low on February 13, 2014 when
Congress MP from Vijayawada L. Rajagopal used a can of pepper spray to
protest against the tabling of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill.
A year of social challenges
The year saw a new way of social interaction that too for a cause. It
all began with Ice Bucket Challenge, a novel way to raise awareness on
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disorder. A
person pours a bucket of ice water poured on his/her head and nominates
others. Following the success, rice bucket challenge, My Tree Challenge,
mud bucket challenge followed. Even our Prime Minister got inspired by
the idea and launched Swachch Bharat Abhiyan on the same lines.
Landing on a comet
On November 12, this year, the European Space Agency successfully landed
a spacecraft on a speeding comet for the first time in history.
Conviction
On September 27, 2014, the then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa
earned the dubious distinction of the first-ever sitting chief minister
to be convicted in a disproportionate assets case. As the judge
sentenced her to four years imprisonment, ending the 18-year-old trial,
she is now barred from contesting from elections for a period of 10
years.
Photobomb, selfies
These two terms, now added to dictionaries, is in use for sometime now.
But a Queen photobombing a player’s selfie, is definitely new.
Mineral gets name
American geologists named the earth’s most abundant mineral as
Bridgmanite. It had hitherto remained nameless as a large enough sample
of the mineral, found in the earth’s lower mantle, had not been
recovered.
Phones do bend
In September, when Apple loyalists, who bought the newly-launched iPhone
6, realised their phone bends when kept in their pockets. This was not a
latest innovation from Apple’s stable, but a design flaw.
Monkey doctor
Do you know how to save a person using cardiac massage? Well, this
monkey seems to know it. A monkey gave life to another one that fell
unconscious after apparently touching the high-tension wires at Kanpur
railway station.
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