Lucknow's Iconic Rumi Darwaza

A great snap uploaded by my friend, Faraz Ali, on his photogallery that shows the famous iconic Rumi Darwaza (A grand gateway) monument in our home town of Lucknow. Known for it’s great food and hospitality and the royal treatment meted out to visitors, Lucknow has a host of great monuments built by grand rulers of the historic province of Awadh, called Nawabs. The Nawabs built monuments which are part of the national heritage of India now.

A monkey which was hoaxed by three men, two barbers and a butcher, is one of the many exhibits that are on display at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI)’s Mini Museum.

The trio had planted the dead monkey on the Highway after chopping it’s tail, removing it’s fur and painting it green!

Here’s another interesting 10s Collection. This time it is for the 10 worst cars of the world!

The Austin Allegro has been described by most Brits as the world’s ‘worst car ever’

According to a survey conducted by iMotormag, nearly one in four Brits picked the Allegro as the worst car, even though production of it ended 25 years ago.

The world’s ten worst cars are as follows:

Well, here is something interesting. Take religion and mix it to something like YouTube and voila! You have GodTube. It is an interesting concept, though. This article takes a look at the concept behind GodTube.

Express & Star has an article showcasing some of the strange and out of the box concept cars being brought by Manufacturers in order to gain new ground. Good looking (& strange as well) concept cars are on the showcase menu. Have a look at them.

Entering the Guiness Book of World Records are the World’s Hottest Chili Peppers called the ‘Bhut Jolokia’ that are found in the eastern state of Assam in India. They have been tested and proven to have 1 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU) at the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State’s Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. It is just double the amount of SHUs contained in former no.1, Red Savina (a kind of habanero pepper) which contains a distance 577,000 SHUs.

The result was announced today by the American Society for Horticultural Science.

A mouth burning experience indeed.

 

The World’s first operational plane of the World’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 took to the skies by being deployed by Singapore Airlines on the busy Singapore-Sydney route.

This is the inaugural flight of the A380 on the route and it is the first major development in aircrafts since the Boeing 747 Jumbo.

Read related A380 report at Yahoo!

If you are planning to get a music player but do not want a iPod, you can choose from a variety of competitors including, Sandisk, Sony Corp. and Microsoft.

Here’s an article that showcases the various players, iPod rivals: Hot and Happening.

Well, seems like the world’s move to the virtual world of internet is getting all the more interesting day-by-day. Seems like the company SpeedDate.com has brought to the internet the concept of randomly choosing your dating partner in eight minutes.This has been achieved by hooking prospective dating partners via Video Chat. Here’s the article that reports this news, Now, three-minute online dating.

Here’s an interesting article that talks about a beauty contest that was organized in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan, Revealed: Beauty under the burqa. This is special since Afghanistan has been a hotbed of conservatives within the Islamic community. This is a great achievement for the women in Afghanistan.