Adieu 2011, Welcome 2012!

Year 2011 has been a special one with so much happening! It will go down in the history as the one with largest number of natural disasters, starting with an earthquake in Japan on 11 Mar, one of the most intense ever recorded in human history on a Richter scale 9! The widespread disaster it struck and nuclear meltdown of the reactors was horrifying! It left more than 20000 people dead in the wake.

The floods in Thailand in September left more than 2 million devastated and homeless and more than 700 killed. The floods also severely affected major Japanese companies ( about 450 in all) which are located in Ayutthaya industrial complex disrupting the supply chain world over.

Osama Bin Laden was finally tracked down by the US Navy Seals in the confines of Abbotabad in Pakistan and eliminated after a cat and mouse game which lasted more than a decade ever since the twin World Trade Centre towers were knocked down by Al Quaida.

‘Arab Spring’ uprising in the middle east saw the world bidding goodbye to Hosnei Mubarak in Egypt and President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia., and Muhamad Gaddafi in Libya. North Korean dictator Kim JongII died on 17 Dec.

Massive earthquake on Richter scale 6.8 rocked Christchurch in New Zealand leaving more than 180 dead, and wide spread destruction all over!

Eurozone was hit by the worst ever debt crisis. The financial crisis was triggered by staggering debt in Greece and then engulfing Italy, Germany and 17 other European nations.

The Bullet train in China rammed into a another speeding train on 23 July causing severe damages and destruction.

Steve Jobs the founder of Apple computer died on 05 Oct at an age of 56!

The world population touched a figure of 7 billion and the Chinese economy became the second biggest in the world surpassing that of Japan which held the record for 42 years!

An year of dark clouds had a silver lining in form of Prince William wedding to Kate Middleton on 29 Apr and a daughter being born to Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachhan on 16 Nov. The LokPal Bill to curb corruption was passed in the the lower house in parliament at the stroke of midnight 27 Dec!!

A new year will bring in new aspirations and new resolutions! We hope this New Year will be happier one where lesser people die due malnutrition, hunger and disease. The technology will bring in more benefits to the mankind! There would be lesser number of wars and terror and greater respect to preserve the nature for the new generation to see this wonderful creation of god called 'earth'!

I wish all my fellow bloggers a Happy New Year 2012!

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