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Anning became famous for her work collecting fossils from the Jurassic beds near her home in Lyme Regis Dorset Google has celebrated the 215th anniversary of the birth of British palaeontologist Mary Anning with a special doodle. Anning is best known for her work collecting fossils from the Jurassic period near her home in Lyme Regis Dorset. Today's colourful Google Doodle shows her uncovering a dinosaur's fossilised remains. Anning is recognised for contributing to fundamental changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life. Among her many discoveries was the first ever correctly identification skeleton of an ichthyosaur. Despite being recognised globally for her work in the field, she was not - as a woman - eligible to join the Geological Society of London. In 2010 Anning was included by the Royal Society iin a list of the ten British women who have most influenced the history of science. Born in Lyme Regis on 21st May 1799. Her father, a cabinetmaker,...

The big day is finally here when we will know who India’s next Prime Minister will be. To commemorate this day, Google has put up an ‘Election Results 2014’ doodle on its homepage. The doodle is quite simple in its design and the letter “L” in Google’s logo has been turned into a finger with voting ink. When you hover the mouse over the doodle the words “Election Results 2014” pop up and when you click on it, the search page shows all results related to the counting day. Being a Friday, chances are you will be stuck in office and won’t be able to sit in front of the television the whole day. To keep yourself updated, you can check  YouTube or download Airtel’s Pocket TV  app on your smartphone. Alternatively, you can also check out these apps  for up-to-date results. Ref :  http://www.bgr.in/news/election-results-2014-google-doodle-goes-live-on-counting-day/

  Google is continuing its annual Mother's Day tradition by marking the occasion with a doodle on its home page. The Google doodle shows a mother riding a bicycle flanked by her kids on either side. The origin of Mother's Day as the world knows it today can be traced back to the United States. In 1908 Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in the US. She then began a campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognised holiday in the United States. Her attempts bore fruit in 1914, and since then the day is celebrated every year. Most countries celebrate the day on the second Sunday of May, while others observe Mother's Day on different days, with 8th March and 21st March the other popular dates, across the world. The countries that recognise the second Sunday of May as Mother's Day includes Canada, Australia, most parts of Europe, India & other parts of Asia, Brazil and other parts of South America, as well as m...

Audrey Hepburn is still considered one of the most beautiful women in the world Google's latest Doodle celebrated actress Audrey Hepburn's 85th birth anniversary. Audrey Hepburn's Hairstyle Voted Most Influential The British actress, star of movies such as Roman Holiday (1953), War and Peace (1956), Breakfast at Tiffany 's (1961), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967), is counted among the greatest film legends in the history of cinema. She was, and still is, also considered a fashion icon and one of the world's most beautiful women. Audrey Hepburn was nominated for five Oscars. She won the Best Actress Oscar in 1953 for her debut performance in. Roman Holiday and was given an honorary posthumous Oscar for her humanitarian work in 1993. Audrey Hepburn died of ...

New Delhi: The two Os on the Google logo turn into a tabla to commemorate the 95th birth anniversary of one of the greatest players of the Indian musical instrument. With the trademark smile on his lips Ustad Alla Rakha appears on the Google India home page tapping a taal. Reverentially called Abbaji, Alla Rakha was born on April 29, 1919 in Phagwal, Jammu. His full name is Allarakha Qureshi Khansaheb. He traced his musical lineage to the the Punjab gharana and was responsible for bringing the tabla to the non-Indian audiences while as an accompanist to another Indian musical legend, Ravi Shankar. Reverentially called Abbaji, Alla Rakha was born on April 29, 1919 in Phagwal, Jammu. At the age of 12 he left home to learn the tabla and in 1936 joined All India Radio in Lahore (now in Pakistan) and was in 1938 transferred to Bombay. After a few years of radio, he joined films as a music composer in 1943. He composed under the name AR Qureshi. In 1958, he more or les...

Google marked the 135th birthday of freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu, also known as 'The Nightingale of India' by posting a doodle on its India home page. Born on this day in 1879 as Sarojini Chattopadhyaya in Hyderabad, she joined the freedom movement after the partition of Bengal in 1905. She presided over the annual session of the Indian National Congress at Kanpur in 1925.She married Dr Govindarajulu Naidu, a doctor by profession at the age of 19. Naidu was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal by the British government for her work during the plague epidemic in India. She was the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Sarojini Naidu died of heart attack on March 2, 1949. Ref http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/google-doodle-sarojini-naidu-135th-birthday-congress-nightingale-of-india/1/343217.html

The latest Google Doodle marks the 63rd year of the Republic of India. The Doodle depicts three elephants decked in finery, each with two children and a tricoloured umbrella on it's back, a reference to the Bravery Awardees who take part in the Republic Day parade. The Doodle is clickable, but does not play video or audio as previous clickable Doodles did. Instead, it leads to a search result page with news and information about Republic Day. India's Republic Day commemorates the date that the Constitution Of India was enacted and became the document that governed the country. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Assembly's 308 members signed two handwritten copies of the new Constitution, an English and a Hindi version, and two days later the Constitution became the law. Drafted by a committee headed by B R Ambedkar, the Constitution replaced the Government Of India Act Of 1935 that had previously governed colonial India, and declared the country a ...