He was struck seven times by lightning between the years 1942 and 1977. And each time he outlived, finding his way into the Guinness World Records. Roy Sullivan from Virginia, in the United States, is nicknamed the ‘human lightning conductor’. He lost his eyebrows, and went through severe stomach and chest issues, yet was strong enough to …
In a humble corner of Chestnut Ridge Park in Western New York, is the Eternal Flame Falls. As the name suggests, there is a flame that keeps burning, in a small cave, behind the screen of water. What feeds the flame has, for long, been a matter of debate. Scientifically, such ‘eternal’ flames are fuelled by natural …
A four-hour journey from Cusco city in Peru, and along the Peruvian Andes, brings you to a region with colourful mountains – some coloured in brick-red, some in lavender, some in greenish-blue. This is due to the sediments present in the soil, and the atmosphere. But the most unique of all these mountains is Vinicunca, …
We all know of Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand as one of the first two to climb the world’s highest summit, Mt Everest. He also had another feather on his cap. He was the first person to have reached the three extremes – Mount Everest, the North Pole and the South Pole. Thus, the Three …
India has the largest postal network in the world. There are about 1,55,669 post offices or outlets, of which roughly 89 per cent are outside the cities. On an average, one post office serves an area of 21.13 sq. km and a population of 6,602 people.
Also known as Kargil Vijay Diwas, on this day in 1999, the Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan officially came to an end, when the Indian Army announced the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders. The Indian forces successfully took command of the outposts lost to the Pakistani army.
