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  P reeti Patil from Mumbai is lobbying for “skyscraper architects to redesign buildings, especially rooftops, to increase green spaces”. Her plea stems from nearly 20 years of commitment to her passion. Almost two decades ago, Preeti, the chief catering manager at MbPT (Mumbai Port Trust), unknowingly started a lifestyle trend for the Mumbaikars — terrace and balcony gardening. While balcony gardeners restricted themselves to growing potted plants like roses, jasmine, mint, coriander or the cactus, the concept of utilising the rooftops of their buildings to grow vegetables and fruits, Preeti claims, was first advocated by her. Preeti Patil, one of the first proponents of terrace gardening. Reminiscing about the beginning in 2001, Preeti says, “At the MbPT cafeteria, every day we prepare meals and snacks for thousands of port trust personnel. So imagine the amount of vegetable and fruit waste and uneaten food waste that ends up in landfills.’’ The huge mounds of kitchen waste trigg...

 Hello friends, I am KRUDANT back here on THE SMART SIDE!!!!! I am going to share some amusing facts about INDIA.. 1) 5000 years old, Varanasi is One of The Oldest Inhabited Places in the World 2) A Meteor formed the Breathtaking Lonar Lake in Maharashtra 3) Snakes and Ladders was invented in  India . 4) India  is officially known as the Republic of  India . 5) The national symbol of India is the endangered Bengal Tiger. 6) India  has never invaded any country. 7) India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices.The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011. 8)The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space. 9)Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth's circumference 14)The first rocket in India was transported on a cycle 19)The human calculator It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man h...

  What is an Air Weapons Specialist? Do you have interest in working with guns and explosives? You might want to consider this interesting career. Air weapons specialists store, service, inspect, and handle all types of aerial weapons, ammunition, and launchers. Ammunition includes rockets, missiles, and torpedoes, and can vary from small arms ammunition to nuclear weapons. Air weapons specialists might also deal with systems not related to weapons such as aircraft fire extinguishing systems and ejection seats. With further training, they can qualify as a demolition operator, and it is possible to specialize even further to handle improvised explosive devices What does an Air Weapons Specialist do? An air weapons specialist specializes in one kind of weapon, and it can cost thousands of dollars to train an individual. Most weapons have electronic components to locate targets, then aim and fire the weapon. Specialized knowledge is required to operate technical equipment, figure out ...

  What is an Advertising Sales Agent? An advertising sales agent sells advertising space to businesses and individuals. They will contact potential clients, make sales presentations, maintain client accounts, and often work under pressure to meet sales quotas. They work in a variety of industries, which can include advertising, radio, television, an In this article: What is an Advertising Sales Agent? What does an Advertising Sales Agent do? What is the workplace of an Advertising Sales Agent like? What does an Advertising Sales Agent do? An advertising sales agent will typically do the following: Locate and contact potential clients to offer advertising services Explain to clients how specific types of advertising will help promote their products or services in the most effective way possible Provide clients with estimates of the costs of advertising products or services Process all correspondence and paperwork related to accounts Prepare and deliver sales presentations to new and...

The task of sniffing out passengers infected with COVID-19 at Chile’s Santiago international airport is going to the dogs. A team of Golden Retrievers and Labradors sit when they smell the virus and get a treat. The canines sport green “biodetector” jackets with a red cross. Passengers at an airport health checkpoint wipe their necks and wrists with gauze pads that are then put in glass containers and sent to the dogs to see if they detect COVID-19. ADVERTISEMENT

  Tintin comic book art breaks auction record at $3.1 million Painting for the original cover of “The Blue Lotus (Lotus Bleu)” Tintin comic book (1936) is displayed before being auctioned by Artcurial in Paris on January 13, 2021. | Photo Credit:  REUTERS AP PARIS  15 JANUARY 2021 01:37 IST UPDATED: 15 JANUARY 2021 14:37 IST         A Tintin drawing by the Belgian artist Herge sold on January 14 in Paris for €2.6 million ($3.1 million), breaking the record for the most expensive comic book art in history. The 1936 work in Chinese ink, gouache and watercolour was destined as a cover for  The Blue Lotus,  the fifth volume of the adventures of Tintin, a young reporter created by Hergé. The work features a red dragon on a black background by the frightened character's face. It never graced store shelves because it was deemed too expensive to reproduce on a wide scale, a victim of the artist's craftsmanship. Advertising Advertising In  B...

  NEWS   INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL World’s oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia The photo of the pig painting at Leang Tedongnge in Sulawesi, Indonesia. | Photo Credit:  AFP PTI NEW DELHI  14 JANUARY 2021 16:43 IST UPDATED: 14 JANUARY 2021 16:43 IST         The cave painting uncovered in South Sulawesi consists of a figurative depiction of a warty pig, a wild boar that is endemic to this Indonesian island. Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave art — a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was painted at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The cave painting uncovered in South Sulawesi consists of a figurative depiction of a warty pig, a wild boar that is endemic to this Indonesian island. Advertising Advertising The finding, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, also represents some of the earliest archaeological evidence for modern humans in the region. “The Sulawesi warty pig painting we f...