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Ebenezer Cobb Morley. Ebenezer Cobb Morley was an English sportsman and is regarded as the father of the Football Association and modern football.  Ebenezer Cobb Morley's Rules Revolutionized Soccer. Before Ebenezer Cobb Morley, soccer looked quite different and much more brutal than “The Beautiful Game” played around the world today. Association football, as the sport was then known, bore a closer resemblance to rugby, permitting a greater amount of tackling and ball-handling. It also suffered from chaotic disorganization, with multiple competing leagues, schools, and competitions lacking a formal managing structure, and many playing by different sets of rules. Morley set the foundation for the Football Association (FA), the sport’s oldest official governing body, and laid down 13 rules to regulate the game, creating the first consistent definition of the sport. On what would have been Morley’s 187th birthday, Google celebrated the father of modern football with a Doodl

On Meena Kumari’s 85th birth anniversary. It was tragic that Meena Kumari, who was termed as the “tragedy queen” of Bollywood for her immortal, iconic portrayals of a varied gamut of wronged, silent and long-suffering but dignified Indian women from passed-over love interests to neglected wives, was also one of the most unfortunate actresses whose grief did not end when the shooting was done. Meena Kumari, whose 85th birth anniversary is on Wednesday, was no less tragic than her roles in cinematic classics, spanning Baiju Bawra (1952) to Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) and Pakeezah (1972). In these and more, she could evoke such a lifetime of melancholy and anguish that it was difficult to believe that she was only in her 20s and 30s when she played these roles. But then, her circumstances had a great deal to contribute to this. Nearly abandoned at birth by her father (before a twinge of conscience made him return), her childhood was cut short by her parents’ demand that she

Who was the Belgian priest who discovered the universe is expanding? Georges Lemaître was an astronomer and professor of physics who is thought to be the first to have theorised that the universe is expanding.  His theory was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble in what is now known as Hubble’s Law.  Lemaître is also credited with proposing what has now become known as the Big Bang theory – which says that the observable universe began with an explosion of a single particle.  Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, RAS Associate was a Belgian Catholic Priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven. On Tuesday, Google celebrated the 124th birth anniversary of Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaitre with a doodle. Lemaitre is credited with what is popularly known as the Big Bang Theory, which says that the universe originated from a single atom, which he referred to as the Cosmic Egg. He is also believed to be the first to h

Google Doodle remembers Hubert Cecil Booth, inventor of the vacuum cleaner. The idea of a hygenic way to clean dust occurred to Booth while attending a demonstration of American machines in London. He observed that cleaning machines blew or brushed dirt away, making it a messy affair overall. Booth thought of designing a machine that would suck up dust instead. Vacuum cleaners modelled on Booth's design were made commercially available for the first time in 1901. Booth later went on to become the chairman and managing director of the British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Co. In Video: Hubert Cecil Booth: Google honours the man who invented first vacuum cleaner Get latest news & live updates on the go on your pc with News App. Download The Times of India news app for your device. Read more India news in English and other languages. You also like to read

Google Doodle Celebrates Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis' 125th Birthday. Today is noted statistician and scientist Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis' 125th anniversary and in honor of this occasion, Google has dedicated its today's doodle by Nishant Choksi to him. He was born on 29 June 1893 in West Bengal, Mahalanobis is known for his pioneering work in statistics and is most often remembered by the "Mahalanobis distance", a way of measurement used in population studies and was one of the members of the first Planning Commission of India. He also taught at Presidency College (Kolkata) where, in 1931, he was responsible for founding the Indian Statistical Institute.  He further laid the foundations of Indian statistical system through the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) and the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) Mahalanobis, a man of diverse scientific interests combined other disciplines like anthropology, economics, physics to deve

Today's Google doodle marks noted singer Gauhar Jaan's birth anniversary. Gauhar was among the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in the country. The record was released by the Gramophone Company of India. Gauhar was born on June 26 in 1873, and her birth name was Angelina Yeoward. Her father was Armenian and her mother Victoria Hemmings was an Indian by birth. After her parents' divorce, Victoria moved to Benaras with a Muslim nobleman and the then eight-year-old Angelina accompanied her mother there. Both mother and daughter converted to Islam when in Benaras. Victoria changed her name to Malka Jaan and Angelina's name was changed to Gauhar Jaan. Malka became a noted singer and Kathak dancer in Benaras. Some years later, the mother-daughter duo moved to what was then called Calcutta where Gauhar began to train as a Hindustani classical musician. Soon, she also became accomplished in Kirtan and Rabindra Sangeet, among other musical forms. In 1896

Walmart sells $16bn bonds to finance Flipkart acquisition. If you thought it would be that easy for a multi-billion company like Walmart to acquire Flipkart, you underestimated the size of the $16 billion deal. It appears that Walmart bit more than it can chew. The Arkansas-headquartered multinational retail corporation has sold $16 billion of bonds to help finance their Flipkart acquisition. Walmart has offered both fixed rate bonds and floating rate notes. Last month, after a lot of media speculation, Walmart announced to acquire 77 per cent stake in Flipkart for a whopping $16 billion. The remainder of the business is held by some of Flipkart’s existing shareholders, including Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, Tencent Holdings Limited, Tiger Global Management LLC and Microsoft Corp. Following the deal, the multinational retailer may invest $2-3 billion in Flipkart to take on other e-commerce players in India. Walmart has been eyeing the Indian market and had b