Asia’s largest mandi Asia’s largest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables is located in New Delhi. Over 3000 trucks bring fresh goods to the Azadpur Mandi every day. It retails to over 30,000 outlets in the National Capital Region.
First marble structure in India Hoshang Shah’s tomb in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, is said to be the first marble structure in India, and probably the first inspiration for the Taj Mahal.
Cucumbers originated in India Earlier believed to have come to India via Afghanistan, it now turns out that cucumbers and melons were native to India all along! Pandey and Susanne Renner of the Departments of Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Munich, Germany, produced a...
Indian airports ranked amongst the world’s Top 5. Airports Council International (ACI), an international body of airports, has placed Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport second in terms of service quality after Seoul’s Incheon Airport, in the category of airports handling over 25 million passengers per...
Youngest girl to scale Mt Everest Thirteen-year-old Malavath Poorna created history on May 25, 2014, when she planted the tricolour on the highest peak of the world. Poorna, born in the Pakala village of Telangana, is of tribal origin. She is a student of class...
International award for a 9-year-old movie director. Two nine-year-old girls from a corporation school in New Delhi have proved that movie-making is child’s play for them. ‘Phoolwati Amma’, the movie they made as part of an MCD-Intach initiative on their school’s heritage, has been awarded...
Youngest App Developers Brothers Shravan Kumaran (14) and Sanjay Kumaran (12), students of class IX and VIII, respectively, at Vaels Billabong High International School, Chennai, have developed 11 apps that are available on the Apple App Store and Google’s Android Play Store. The two Apps...
Braille printer made of LEGO blocks Thirteen-year-old Shubham Banerjee of Santa Clara, California, has made a Braille printer out of LEGO construction pieces. Braigo, the innovative, low-cost printer, will be priced at only around $350. With Intel investing up to a few hundred thousand dollars...
Saffron Festival, Pampore An annual three-day Saffron Festival is held in Pampore, Kashmir in autumn (usually October) after the saffron has been harvested. Though still in its infancy, this festival is creating ripples of interest in Purists to the picturesque state, described as ‘heaven on...
Fruit of knowledge Deep in the precincts of the Ekambareswarar Temple in Kanchipuram, which is dedicated to Lord Shiva, is a 1000-year-old mango tree. The mangoes from this tree are said to impart knowledge. At 57 meters, the temple also has one of the tallest...
