Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
A series of bomb blasts rocked Malegaon town in Maharashtra, killing 37 and injuring around 100.
Shuji Nakamura of Japan, widely known as the ‘Thomas Edison of the LED industry’, was awarded the second Millennium Technology Prize for his work on blue and white LEDs.
Hosni Mubarak won the first multi-candidate presidential election in the history of Egypt with almost 80 percent of the vote.
Star Trek: The Original Series, a popular sci-fi serial premiered on American television.
The Chinese made their first intrusions into Indian territory by moving deep into NEFA (now Arunachal Pradesh)
Italy's surrender, during World War II reached by secret agreement 5 days earlier, was announced to the world
Nazi soldiers began their 900-day siege of Leningrad . The city's determined resistance held the German troops at bay and turned the tide of World War II.
50,000 Bulgarians were massacred by Turkish troops in Monastir in Bulgaria, then a part of the Ottoman Empire
For the first time, public diggings for gold were permitted at Witwatersrand (present day Johannesburg). Thousands came in search of gold.
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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.