Every March 17th, thousands of people don their greenest garb, march in Irish pride parades, eat green clover-shaped cookies, and quaff frosty mugs of green beer in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. But do you really know who St. Patrick was and why he is celebrated? Patrick was born in AD 387 just south of Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, which …

Saarbrücken, Germany – February 20, 2016 – A total of 12268 children from 35 kindergartens, 43 schools and 42 clubs designed 12,268 toy windmills who were placed in Saarbrücken at the Saar-Spektakel, the biggest public festival in the region, by the energy concern energis Gmbh, thus setting the new world record for the Largest display of toy windmills (pinwheels). Photo: 35 …

Toronto, Canada – February 16, 2016 – The Robin Hood team celebrated Family Day (in Ontario) by achieving the world record title for the Largest cookie mosaic in support of We Bake for Change, an initiative of WE Day; the completed mosaic measured 29.58 feet by 47.71 feet and was comprised of over 13,000 shortbread cookies. Photo: Craig Kielburger, Co-Founder of …

It’s wise to use one’s intelligence, if one is blessed with it, positively Rohit had got into wrong company very early in his life. His parents, both professionals, did not pay much attention to him. Rohit spent most of his free time with his friends on the street where they used to play. Cheating was rampant in their games and …

Hari Chand sits at Café Coffee Day, a stone’s throw away from the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. Inside the enormous belly of the stadium is a tartan track. Hari Chand has an unrealised dream there. If fulfilled, it would have made him the undisputed long-distance running champion in India. For a lot of people, who have bothered to …

Taking a cue from the Swachh Bharat movement initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a young IIT Mandi alumnus, Aakash Hingu, has come out with an innovative way to dispose scrap. He also reasons out why Chandigarh has lost in the race for Smart City. The idea is to “make recycling of scrap a habit,” says this 24-year-old, whose brainchild …

Rome, Italy – January 26, 2016 – Game of Thrones star Hafþór Júlíus ‘Thor’ Björnsson has broken the Guinness World Records world record for carrying the highest number of fridges over a set distance in the fastest time; the super-strong Swede carried two fridges, weighing 450 kg in total, over 20 metres in an impressive 19.60 seconds, thus setting the new …

The charkhas (spinning wheels) are out on the roads of Vadodara and the rest of Gujarat, declaring an upcoming colourful revolution in the skies. No, they aren’t spinning cloth but preparing endless lengths of ‘manjha’ (kite strings) with coats of colour, conjuring a visual treat alongside make-shift shops selling kites, all in preparation for the Uttarayan festival on Thursday. Uttarayan …

Pompano Beach, Florida, USA – Friday, January 1, 2016 – The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company set the world record for constructing the World’s Largest Game of Cornhole; measuring an astounding 64 feet by 32 feet, the super-sized version of the traditional tailgate game, cornhole, was paired up with another larger-than-life college football tradition—the Goodyear Blimp. Photo: The Goodyear Tire …

Hyderabad, India – December 30, 2015: Chef Instructors & Student Chefs of Culinary Academy of India made 200 different Cold Cuts with 300 Kg’s of meat and 75 Kg’s of International Cheese during 800 man hours and made a 30 Feet Long & 8 Feet Cold Meat Platter, thus setting the new world record for the Longest Cold Meat Platter. Photo: …