The First Handheld Mobile Phone

Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. 

On 3 April 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to re-charge.

Alla Rakha

Today is the birthday of ledgend "Alla Rakha"

"Qureshi Alla Rakha Khan" also known as "Alla Rakha". An Indian tabla player. He was a frequent accompanist of Ravi Shankar.

Birth: April 29, 1919, Jammu

Death: February 3, 2000, Mumbai

Spouse: Bavi Begum

Children: Zakir Hussain, Taufiq Qureshi, Fazal Qureshi, Khurshid Aulia, Razia Khan

Albums: Rich à la Rakha, Drums of India, Shared Moments, more...

India's only gorilla 'Polo' is no more...

Polo, the country’s only gorilla, listed as one of the world’s critically endangered species, died at the Mysore zoo (Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens) Saturday night. The 43-year old Western Lowland Gorilla was suffering from old age ailments and was buried next to his old time friend Wali, a chimpanzee, who had died in the same zoo last year.