Chennai students break Guinness World Record with 4,008-strong ice cream–licking chain
The Hindu
Students from eight Chennai schools came together on January 21 to break a 15-year-old Guinness World Record, forming the world’s longest chain of people licking ice cream at event. They were rewarded with more icecream.
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The Clamorous reed warbler is as loud as they come, but in the urban environment, it is outshouted. Weed clearing in urban habitats brings down its home, the bulrushes. Bulrushes in wetlands are not encroachments, but ‘legal homes’ to birds in the crake and rail family and warblers, so government line agencies ought to tread on them thoughtfully
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