Indian city sets Guinness record lighting oil lamps

The Indian city of Ayodhya on Saturday set a Guinness world record by illuminating hundreds of thousands of earthen lamps as part of an annual Hindu festival.Representatives from the Guinness World Records handed over the certificate to Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, after witnessing the lighting of 409,000 oil lamps on the banks of river Sarayu."Over 6,000 volunteers, majority of them college students, laboriously worked to ensure that lamps burn in a sy