Showcasing a great loophole in the promises of Pakistan government regarding the upkeep of Hindu temples and other sites of religious importance, there lies the dilapidated Shri Varun Dev Mandir in Manora, Pakistan. The temple’s caretaker’s repeated request to the concerned authorities for preserving this 1000-year-old temple of great historical temples have fallen to deaf ears. According to caretaker Jivraj, he had written to the Manora Cantonment Board (MCB) for […]

Cricket has and always will be a batsman’s game. One can lament the bowlers not getting their due credit and the game and its rules bent to favour the ones who wield the bat, but it doesn’t change the fact that batsmen have it all. After all, a bowler can take a maximum of 10 wickets in an innings, but there no such limit on how many runs one can […]

Mieko Nagaoka, a 100-year-old Japanese female swimmer, finished a 1,500 metres swim in one hour, 15 minutes and 54.39 seconds in the masters swimming competition in Matsuyama, a media report said on Sunday. Nagaoka achieved this feat on Saturday, Xinhua reported. Mieko Nagaoka, born in 1914, took up swimming at the age of 82 to recover from a knee injury. In the beginning, Nagaoka did not know how to swim. […]

Almost three decades ago, a teenager, after noticing the deaths of a large number of reptiles due to a lack of a tree cover, started planting Bamboo in an area that had been washed away by floods. Today, that same land hosts 1,360 acres of Jungle called Molai Forest, named after Jadav “Molai” Payeng, the man who made this possible single handedly! That forest is now home to Bengal tigers, […]