Tag: Doodle

New Delhi: The Google Doodle on Tuesday honoured Soviet theoretical physicist and Noble Laureate Lev Davidovich Landau, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into liquid helium’s behaviour at extremely low temperatures. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan on January 22 in 1908, Landau’s work covered all branches of theoretical physics, ranging from […]

New Delhi: After 9 p.m. on Thursday , you should be able to watch the best Geminid meteor showers to Earth ever and Google has made a Doodle just to make you aware of what a celestial show you could miss if you do not look up at the sky at the right time. “If […]

New Delhi: Google on Wednesday declared 13-year-old Pingla Rahul More from Mumbai the national winner of its “Doodle for Google” competition where art-loving students brought their imaginations to life for the search engine giant’s logo. Over 75,000 contestants participated in the contest from around the country and displayed doodles in response to this year’s theme […]

New Delhi: Google on Tuesday opened public online voting for 20 children shortlisted for its annual ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition. The annual competition, announced early in August, encouraged creative, art-loving students across India to bring their imagination to life for the search engine giant’s logo. This year’s theme was “what inspires you”. The doodle, incorporating […]

  New Delhi: Google on Tuesday honouredDanish chemist Soren Peder Lauritz Sorensen who introduced the pH scale to the world with an interactive Doodle. Sorensen’s method of expressing acidity — the negative logarithm of hydrogen ion concentration (pH) — still has a wide range of real-world uses. For example, in agriculture, the pH value can […]

New Delhi: Google on Friday celebrated freedom fighter, women’s rights activist, Hindi poet and Jnanpith awardee Mahadevi Varma with a doodle. On this date, in 1982, the Bharatiya Jnanpith honoured her with the prestigious award for her “outstanding contribution towards literature”. Guest artist Sonali Zohra has designed the doodle that shows the transformative poet busy […]

Mumbai: Google on Saturday dedicated a special doodle acknowledging Homai Vyarawalla — India’s first woman photojournalist — on her 104th birth anniversary. Vyarawalla, regarded as India’s “first lady of the lens”, is known for her electric images of India’s independence movement and candid shots of the likes of the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin […]

New Delhi: Google marked the 103rd birth anniversary of “Mallika-e-Ghazal” Begum Akhtar on Saturday by dedicating a special doodle to her. Born as Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, the ghazal queen is seen in the doodle sitting gracefully with a sitar with a few admirers around her. She was born in 1914 in Faizabad in what is now […]

New Delhi: Google is celebrating its 19th birthday on Wednesday with a “surprise” spinner Doodle that allows users to explore 19 games it has launched over the years – including a new version of the snake game. The reason Google is celebrating surprises is because it believes the search engine came into being because of […]

New Delhi: Google on Saturday honoured Asima Chatterjee, the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Science in India with a Doodle. When the doyenne of chemistry was growing up in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the 1920s and 1930s, it was almost unheard of for a woman to study chemistry. But that did not stop […]

New Delhi: Search engine giant Google on Sunday celebrated Mother’s Day and the spirit of motherhood with a cute cactus doodle. Mother’s Day is celebrated in India and many other countries on the second Sunday of May annually. The day is marked to celebrate and cherish the unconditional love, compassion, and sacrifices made by mothers […]

Mumbai: Google on Monday celebrated with a special animated Doodle showing a ‘flash mob’ spraying a young onlooker with vibrant colours. The new Goodle (Google + Doodle) opens in a stark grey and suddenly a ‘flash mob’ rushes in from the left, colouring almost all the letters in different colours – and even one bewildered young […]

New York: As NASA’s New Horizons probe moves closer to Pluto, Google has created a doodle to honour the historic moment that will reveal the mysterious world of the dwarf planet for the first time. Google Doodle shows a small illustration of the probe spinning around the dwarf planet to honour its ground-breaking journey. According […]

New Delhi: Marking the occasion of International Women’s Day, Google on Friday showcased an interactive, slideshow doodle featuring inspirational quotes by women. The doodle begins with “woman” written in 11 different languages — Hindi, Arabic, French, Bangla, Russian, Japanese, German, Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese. The quotes in various languages are from 14 international female […]

New Delhi: Google on Wednesday celebrated the spring equinox with an animated doodle of a flower on the surface of the earth. The Spring Equinox doodle’s reach extended to all of Europe, Asia and North America, including India, almost all of the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the first day of the season on Thursday. […]