Mount Pleasant, Texas, USA – April 25, 2017 – A Mount Pleasant chocolate manufacturer succeeded in breaking the Guinness World Record for “Largest Chocolate Truffle”; the Sweet Shop USA made a chocolate truffle weighing 2,368 lbs., measures 3’5′ tall and is 12’2″ in diameter, thus setting the new world record for Largest Chocolate Truffle. Photo: Sweet Shop USA had to …

बुंदेलखंड में वैसे तो कई लोक देवियां और देवता हैं लेकिन उनमें से एक हैं ‘लाला हरदौल’। हरदौल की शौर्य गाथा को बयां करते कई नाट्य मंडल गांवों में अपनी  प्रस्तुतियां देते हैं। लोक देवता के रूप में लाला हरदौल इतने पूज्य हैं कि बुंदेलखंड में किसी लड़की का विवाह हो तो पहला भात लाला हरदौल की तरफ से ही …

मनेर शरीफ पटना से प्राय: 30 कि.मी. दक्षिण-पश्चिम की ओर है। किसी समय यह सोन और गंगा नदी के संगम पर बसा हुआ था। आज का मनेर करीब दो हजार घरों का एक छोटा-सा कस्बा है और सड़क के किनारे कुछ दुकानें हैं जिसमें दैनिक जीवन में काम आने वाली चीजें मिल जाती हैं। यहां का ‘नुकदी का लड्डू’ बहुत …

Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia – April 23, 2017 – “Marína” is a great work of a love and reflective poetry in Slovak literature written by Andrej Sládkovič in 1845; the 291 stanzas (2900 lines) long love poem about realistic but unfulfilled love between the author and his muse Marína Pischlová; it sets the new world record for the Longest Love Poem. …

हम बच्चे हैं छोटे–छोटे, काम हमारे बड़े–बड़े। आसमान का चाँद हमी ने थाली बीच उतारा है, आसमान का सतरंगा वह बाँका धनुष हमारा है। आसमान के तारों में वे तीर हमारे गड़े–गड़े। हम बच्चे हैं छोटे–छोटे, काम हमारे बड़े–बड़े। भरत रूप में हमने ही तो दांत गिने थे शेरों के, और राम बन दांत किये थे खट्‌टे असुर–लुटेरों के। कृष्ण–कन्हैया …

Cockfighting Image Gallery, Roosters Fight Stock Photos: Cockfighting is a blood sport because of the harm cocks do to each other in cockpits, exacerbated by metal spurs that can be attached to birds’ own spurs. After the 1959 revolution, Cuba cracked down on cockfighting as part of a ban on gambling. But, over the years that stance has softened. Official …

Dr. Rajkumar was born on April 24, 1929 in a Kannada speaking family at Gajanur, a village on the border of Tamilnadu and Karnataka, in Tamilnadu state. His mother tongue is Kannada. His father, Singanalluru Puttaswamayya who was a famous theater artist and his mother Lakshmamma named their son Mutturaju after Lord Muthathi rai. He was the eldest son in …

San Diego, California, USA – April 20, 2017 – A man and his dog broke the Guinness World Record for the longest trip on an electric bike; Mike Minnick and his 15-pound rescue dog ‘Bixby’ pedaled more than 14,000 miles together on their electric bike, thus setting the new world record for the Longest journey on a motorized bicycle. Photo: …

Mumbai, India – April 20, 2017 – Mohammad Shams Aalam Shaikh (b July 17, 1986) of Mumbai, a paraplegic with 100% disability due to spinal cord injury, set a record for having completed the longest open-sea swimming by a paraplegic by covering an impressive 8km in the open seas of Goa in a span of four hours and four minutes. …

Amritsar Golden Temple Images: Sri Harmandir Sahib, also Sri Darbar Sahib and informally referred to as the “Golden Temple”, is the holiest Gurdwara of Sikhism, located in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India. Amritsar was founded in 1577 by the fourth Sikh guru, Guru Ram Das. The fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan, designed the Harmandir Sahib to be built in …