Dear reader

While  you catch up with reading the local news from Lokvani here is a glimpse of some exciting news from other parts of the world.Enjoy !

A rare copy of the Koran and an antique painting was seized in Bangalore from a man who was trying to sell it for $1m. he gold-embroidered Koran, written in Persian, has more than 1,000 pages.and may have belonged to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

 The most glamorous and biggest event takes place in the city of Jodhpur in western India with the wedding of British actress Elizabeth Hurley and her new husband, Arun Nayar.

The wedding of actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai may not be held in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city due to shortage of hotel rooms, and the new possible venues could be Jaipur or Gwalior.

 Two Indian children from Chile who went to Antarctica and survive hair-raising episodes have come out with a fascinating account of their trip to the planet's last frontier besides a remote Indian temple.

Suravi Thomas and Rishi Thomas uncover in their 'Adventures in Antartica' (Puffin) an eye-catching shrine with Hindu idols in the southernmost tip of Chile from where expeditions to Antartica sail out.

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