Shigmo or Shishirotsava, is a spring festival celebrated in the Indian state of Goa, where it is one of the major festivals of the Hindu community. It is also celebrated by Konkani diaspora and Indian festival of Holi is part of it. One day in Panjim, Goa. A child wearing a fake moustache and a dhoti tied clumsily. A woman …

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World No. 1 Saina beats Chinese Xue Yao 21-13 21-9 in just 30 min to enter Malaysia Open quarters Officially crowned the World No. 1 in the BWF rankings, Saina Nehwal today continued her rampaging run with a dominating straight-game win over Chinese qualifier Xue Yao to reach the quarterfinals of the Malaysia Open Super Series. Saina defeated Yao 21-13 …

Gtor-ma cakes are sacrificial cakes used in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies as offerings to deities. The unbaked cakes are prepared by kneading parched barley flour and butter into cones, decorated with pats of butter. The cakes form part of the phyi-mchod, or eight offerings of external worship, as well as part of the offerings of the five senses, which are considered …

Ground antbirds are tropical birds belonging to the family Formicariidae. They follow army ants and feed on insects, frogs, and lizards disturbed by the ants. They are native to South America.

In Greek mythology, the gigantes were a race of giants, children of Gaia or Gaea (Earth Mother) who was fertilized by the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him. The primordial Gigantes rose up in arms against the Olympians to end the reign of the Olympian gods but were defeated and buried beneath the Earth, where their writhing is supposed …

About 97 per cent of the energy we use in our homes and factories is generated from coal, oil and natural gas, which are called fossil fuels. These were fall formed from organic (once-living) matter. Coal consist of the remains of land plants, while oil and gas were formed from the remains of tiny plant and animals which lived in …