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New Year Recipes: World Culture and Traditions

New Year Recipes

New Year celebrations are popular around the world. In fact, there is hardly any part of the globe that doesn’t welcome the coming year in a grand fashion. Bidding good bye to the passing year, people look forward to the coming year with great hopes and aspirations. New Year is one of the festive occasions, which are synonymous with treating …

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New Year Party: Celebration Culture & Traditions

New Year Party

Come New Year and everybody looks forward to party the night away. Right from the kids to the oldies, everyone automatically prepares for bidding farewell to the by-gone year and usher in the New Year in style. Almost every household in the vicinity is found to be busy preparing for throwing a party, as it is the perfect time for …

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Biography for Students and Children

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995), was an Indian American astrophysicist born in Lahore, Punjab (Now in Pakistan). Chandrasekhar was awarded, along with William A. Fowler, the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics, with Chandrasekhar cited for his mathematical theory of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars. This work led to …

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Madan Mohan Malaviya Biography for Students

Madan Mohan Malaviya Biography for Students and Children

Born On: December 25, 1861 Born In: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Died On: November 12, 1946 Career: Politician, Freedom Fighter & Educationist Nationality: Indian Mahatma considered him as an elder brother and would refer to him as “Maker of India”. Jawahar Lal Nehru called him “a great soul, one of those who laid the foundation of modern Indian Nationalism”. He …

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जब नींद नहीं आती होगी: रामेश्वर शुक्ल अंचल

जब नींद नहीं आती होगी: रामेश्वर शुक्ल अंचल

क्या तुम भी सुधि से थके प्राण ले–लेकर अकुलाती होगी, जब नींद नहीं आती होगी! दिन भर के कार्य भार से थक – जाता होगा जूही–सा तन, श्रम से कुम्हला जाता होगा मृदु कोकाबेली–सा आनन। लेकर तन–मन की श्रांति पड़ी – होगी जब शय्या पर चंचल, किस मर्म वेदना से क्रंदन करता होगा प्रति रोम विकल, अाँखो के अम्बर से …

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Heaviest Kidney Tumor Removed: World Record

India World Record: Heaviest kidney tumor removed

Mumbai (Maharashtra), India – November 29, 2017 – The team of doctors from the civic-run Sion Hospital led by Dr. Ajit Sawant, head of urology, successfully operated on Manju Devi, a 28-year-old woman from Bihar’s Darbhanga district; it took a team of surgeons eight hours to remove the 12 lbs 12 oz. (5.5 kg) tumour from her kidney, which sets the …

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Largest Computer Security Lesson: World Record

India World Record: Largest computer security lesson

Mumbai (Maharashtra), India – November 15, 2017 – KPMG in India conducted a mass outreach program to educate young school children about being cyber safe; reaching out to a whopping / impressive 3673 participants in schools across India, the company has set a new world record for the Largest computer security lesson at multiple locations. Photo: KPMG globally celebrated Cyber …

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USA Guinness World Record: Most Couples Kissing Under Mistletoe

USA breaks Guinness World Record: Most Couples Kissing Under the Mistletoe

KISSIMMEE, Florida, USA – December 11, 2017 – During the “Kiss-Story in the Making” event, 448 couples set a new WORLD RECORD title for Most couples kissing under mistletoe (single location), bringing this festive, romantic record to smoochably-appropriate KISSimmee, Florida. Photo: During the “Kiss-Story in the Making” event, 448 couples set a new WORLD RECORD title for Most couples kissing under …

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Largest gathering of people dressed as Harry Potter

Largest gathering of people dressed as Harry Potter

Byford, Australia – December 11, 2017 – A total of 997 students, staff and parents dressed as boy wizard Harry Potter gathered at West Byford Primary School, to set the new world record for the Largest gathering of people dressed as Harry Potter. Photo: West Byford Primary School smashed the Guinness world record for the most people dressed as the …

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