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IPL Opening Ceremony
India’s biggest Twenty20
cricket league kicked off
at Salt Lake Stadium in
Kolkata on April 8, 2015.
Started in 2008, the Indian
Premier League (IPL) has
created a phenomenon in
the history of Indian
cricket.
The opening ceremony
was delayed by over an
hour due to heavy rain.
Still, the gathered fans
didn’t lose hope. The
sheer excitement echoed
off the stadium. Saif Ali
Khan, hosted the event.
The ceremony began with
a traditional performance
on Rabindranath Tagore’s
’Ananda Loke’, followed
by Pritam’s musical performance
and
ladies
dancing in traditional red

and white sarees.
Saif Ali Khan then called out the eight
captains to the dais. The crowd applauded and whistled for their favourite captains. However, M.S. Dhoni, Virat Kohli
and Gautam Gambhir, the dynamic Indi-

fanfare. They signed the MCC spirit of cricket pledge followed by a group photo that
formally launched the IPL.
IPL opening ceremony is incomplete without
Bollywood stars and their performances. The
crowd tuned in to Farhan Akhtar’s exciting
performance
from
Rock On. Shahid Kapoor made a vigorous
entrance on a motorcycle. He danced to
the beat of Bappi Lahiri’s ‘Disco’ track and
other songs. Anushka
Sharma and Hrithik
Roshan stole the evening with their electrifying performances.
There couldn’t have
been a better start to
the cricket fever that
is going to grip the
nation now that the
World Cup is over!

an cricket players, received a rousing

The Large Hadron Collider
The scientists, technicians and engineers have worked
for long hours with
appropriate plan
and determination to
build the largest machine of the world,
the Large Hadron
Collider. It is one of
the magnificent
milestones in the history of scientific innovation.

Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN) from 1998-2008, the
Large Hadron Collider is again
operational with protons circling the machine’s 27km tunnel for the first time since
2013. However, it is much robust now.
The Large Hadron Collider is
the most dominant physics experiment being conducted. It
is an attempt made by the scientist to re-create conditions
just after Bing Bang to enable

them to answer the
important questions related to science and universe
itself.

the Large Hadron
Collider is again
operational with protons
circling the machine’s
27km tunnel .