With the mercury dipping, people in Assam, particularly in the rural areas, are switching to celebration mode with the Na Khowa festival, an age-old ritual of community feasts organised to thank the gods for a good harvest. The Na Khowa festival is essentially a prelude to Bhogali Bihu or Magh Bihu, the state’s annual feasting festival. While some families organise …

World Ongoing Wars Images: War is a state of armed conflict between societies. It is generally characterized by extreme collective aggression, destruction, and usually high mortality. Here we have collection images which displays ongoing wars (people suffering) across the globe.

Author: Leo Grasset (translated by Barbara Mellor) Publisher: Profile Books / Hachette India Pages: 162 Price: Rs 499 It was birthplace of the human race but that is not the only contribution of Africa to life on our planet. On its sprawling savannah can be seen many intriguing and inexplicable natural phenomena, spanning morphology (stripes/long necks), behaviour (deer warning signals) …

Lausanne, Switzerland – December 21, 2016 – Chefs from the Swiss hotel management school Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, have created a giant meat pie: it weighed a giant 86.75kg and measured 160cm long, 78cm wide and 11cm high, thus setting the new world record for the Largest one-piece meat pie. Photo: This team of chefs created …

Plants & Trees Images: A tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. Here we have collection of images of plants …

There is saying: ‘God created the world but the Dutch created Holland‘. Holland (more correctly called the Netherlands) is a low-lying country where more than two-fifths of the land is below sea-level at high tide. Since early this century Dutch engineers have reclaimed much of this flat land by building dykes (sea walls) to hold back the sea. The marshy …

Rome, Italy – December 16, 2016 – A hospital in northern Italy had achieved a world first by successfully transplanting a kidney in the place of the spleen in a six-year-old girl; the child had been on dialysis since birth because of a rare kidney anomaly and a malformation of the abdominal blood vessels, the Molinette hospital in Turin said, …

London, United Kingdom – December 16, 2016 – Moaza Al Matrooshi, 24, originally from Dubai, is the first person in the world to be delivered of a baby after having the ovary removed and cryopreserved before she entered puberty. Photo: Moaza al-Matrooshi of Dubai became the first woman in the world to have a baby using an ovary that was …

London, United Kingdom – December 16, 2016 – Amazon had completed its first fully autonomous drone delivery to an Amazon customer; It happened in the UK, where someone named Richard ordered an Amazon Fire Stick streaming device and a bag of popcorn and found the goods at his doorstep in the Cambridgeshire countryside 13 minutes later, thus setting the new …

Typhoon / Cyclone / Hurricane Images: Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon; we just use different names for these storms in different places. In the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, the term “hurricane” is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a “typhoon” and “cyclones” occur in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean.