> The ‘cold desert’ of Leh on Sunday entered the Guinness Book of World Records after 50,300 saplings were planted at a village here in less than an hour by 9,000 volunteers under a drive supported by Buddhist monks to mark the ‘green’ Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The earlier record was held by Peru, where […]Read More
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WORLD’S LARGEST FLORAL CARPET
> In what could be an attempt at adopting a corporate culture, the Kerala Soaps Limited is having a go at making the largest ever floral carpet in the world in Kozhikode. This is close on the heels of a multinational company attempting the same at a convention centre in Thrissur. The ‘Manavamaithri Snehapookkalam’, a […]Read More
> Green Ahmedabad campaign is becoming a prestige issue for the state forest department, especially now that Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of Records have acknowledged the claims of the department of a massive tree plantation in a single day through public participation. Jagdish Prasad, chief conservator of forest, Ahmedabad, said the […]Read More
> In an effort to spread Gandhi’s message of peace and non -violence, about 255 students from a school in Coimbatore city of southern India’s Tamil Nadu state dressed up as Mahatma Gandhi. Draped in white ‘dhotis’, or unsewn cloth, and sporting fake moustaches and spectacles they walked along holding bamboo canes and singing the […]Read More