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Largest Breathing Lesson: Teva breaks record

Largest Breathing Lesson: Teva breaks record

Amsterdam, Netherlands – May 6, 2016 – Taking a break from their day jobs in areas such as finance, marketing, human resources and sales, over 600 employees from healthcare company Teva from across Europe simultaneously spent half an hour setting the new world record for the Largest Breathing Lesson. Photo: Healthcare company Teva, which has its European headquarters in Amsterdam, is …

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Largest reading lesson: ‘UAE Reads’ breaks Guinness World Records record

Largest reading lesson: 'UAE Reads' breaks Guinness World Records record

Dubai, UAE – May 5, 2016 — Under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior, the ‘UAE Reads’ cultural initiative, which was organised by the UAE University, managed to set a new World Record title for the UAE with the ‘Largest Reading Lesson’; a total of 2,604 women, including female staff members from the Ministry of Interior, gathered to listen …

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Farthest hoverboard flight: Franky Zapata breaks record

Farthest hoverboard flight: Franky Zapata breaks record

Paris, France – May 2, 2016 – Franky Zapata sets a new World Record for farthest hoverboard flight, after flying his Flyboard Air for a distance of 2,252 meters at an event in Sausset-les-Pins, France. Photo: Frenchman and champion jet skier Franky Zapata covered the 1.4-mile distance over Sausset-Les-Pins using a hoverboard, and literally blow the previous Guinness World Records world …

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सोना पहनने के प्रभाव – Astrological effects of wearing gold jewellery

सोना पहनने के प्रभाव - Astrological effects of wearing gold jewellery

सोना यानि गोल्ड धरती पर पाई जाने वाली पवित्र और मूल्यवान धातुओं में से एक है। इसके बहुत सारे शुभ-अशुभ प्रभाव हैं जिनसे भाग्य के द्वार खुलते भी हैं और बंद भी हो जाते हैं। सोने का खोना और पाना दोनों ही अच्छा नहीं माना जाता। ज्योतिष में इसे बहुत सारे ग्रहों के साथ जोड़ा जाता है लेकिन मुख्य रूप …

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Myth Breaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & the Story of Indian Biotech – Seema Singh Book Review

Myth Breaker: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw & the Story of Indian Biotech - Seema Singh Book Review

Publisher: Collins Business Pages: 324 Price: Rs.599 Start-ups may have become a familiar term in India in the past decade, but this lady dared to delve into such a mission — a domain dominated by men even today — more than three decades ago. The fact that she will be different from her peers was also evident rather early. For …

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A Biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton – Karen Blumenthal Book Review

A Biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton - Karen Blumenthal Book Review

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 449 Price: Rs.499 In 1969, the Wellesley College for women, near Boston, agreed to have a student speaker at its graduation ceremony – and the very first one abandoned most of her prepared text for an impromptu, impassioned rebuttal of the chief guest’s (a Massachusetts senator) address, and to outline her generation’s divergent goals and vision of …

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Devil Inside My Mind – Gaurav Nigam Book Review

Devil Inside My Mind - Gaurav Nigam Book Review

Publisher: Notion Press Pages: 90 Price: Rs. 199 Imagine you are on a treadmill and don’t have a pause button or you are driving a car that has no brakes in it. For the individual in either of the situations, death or being seriously hurt is guaranteed. Dr. Gaurav Nigam’s first book, “Devil Inside My Mind”, reflects this roller-coaster ride …

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Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? – Katrine Marcal Book Review

Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? - Katrine Marcal Book Review

Publisher: Portobello Books Pages: 240 Price: Rs. 499 The 2008 global financial crisis still casts a baleful shadow, but most of the world still follows the same economic theories without too many questions. But as Christine Lagarde, before she became IMF chief, once quipped: Would Lehman Brothers – whose bankruptcy was among the causes of the crisis – have gone …

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मुझे बचा लो, माँ – ईपशीता गुप्ता Poem on Insecure Feelings of Girl

मुझे बचा लो, माँ - ईपशीता गुप्ता Poem on Insecure Feelings of Girl

मुझे बचा लो, माँ मुझे बचा लो! माँ, मुझे डर लगता है। माँ, चौखट से निकलते ही दादा, चाचा के अंदर आने से, सिहर जाती हूँ। राहों में घूमती निगाहों से, मैं सिमट जाती हूँ। हँस कर बात करते हर मानव से, मैं संभल जाती हूँ। पुरुष के झूठे अभियान से, मैं सहम जाती हूँ। सिहर-सिहर, सहम-सहम कर जीना नहीं …

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