The humongous laddoo is all set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. ...
03:56 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Bhopal: The present Madhya Pradesh Assembly has not maintained an attendance record of its members, including that of the speaker and the chief minister, according to a reply under RTI. No attendance records are kept, "thus it is impossible to furnish detail regarding it," the state Assembly's public information officer said, while replying to an RTI query by an advocate Nityanand Mishra, who sought attendance details of Speaker Ishwardas Rohani,...
11:50 AM, Sep 09, 2012
Brussels: Olympic champion Aries Merritt of the United States broke the world record in the 110 metres hurdles while Jamaicans Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake won their sprints in the final Diamond League meet of the season on Friday. Merritt clocked 12.80 seconds, beating the mark of 12.87 set in 2008 by Cuban Dayron Robles, achieving a season-long obsession in his last race of 2012. "My vision was, if I...
10:28 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Carlton (US): A Minnesota casino has cooked up a world-record bacon cheeseburger that's 10 feet in diameter and weighs more than a ton. The behemoth burger was served up Sunday at the Black Bear Casino Resort near Carlton. It tipped the scales at 914 kilograms. Guinness Records representative Philip Robertson verified the record for biggest burger. He called the feat a result of "remarkable teamwork" and said the burger "actually...
08:13 AM, Sep 04, 2012
London: Pop star Lady Gaga has reportedly been recording vocals for her new album naked. The 26-year-old is currently working on ARTPOP, her third studio album and the follow-up to 2011's 'Born This Way'. A source said that the singer believes singing naked improves her vocal performance, reported Digital Spy. "Gaga has really taken to the idea of naked recording. She has been recording vocals while she's been completely starkers....
06:00 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Rajeev Chawla Age: 50 Profile: An IAS officer, Chawla was the principal secretary to the revenue department (Bhoomi and urban property registration) in Karnataka before being transferred as the Metropolitan Commissioner, Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority. His Achievements In 1998, Chawla was the first one to roll out an initiative, now called Bhoomi, to digitise land records in the state. He also launched a project to create Urban Property Ownership...
04:03 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Country star Taylor Swift's latest single made a record-breaking entry in Billboard Digital Songs chart, scoring the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a female artist. Swift's song We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, an infectious, punky country-pop anthem, quickly rose through the charts and gained strong radio play after its release last week, selling 623,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The song also hit the...
12:37 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Jorhat: The sacred lamp at a Vaishnavite monastery in Jorhat district which has been burning continuously for the past 484 years was on Sunday formally recognised by the Asia Book of Records. The lamp, which was first lit in 1528 in Dhekiakhowa Bor Namghar, has been kept burning since then by the locals of the area. The formal certificate of recognition was handed over to Jorhat Lok Sabha MP and...
01:12 PM, Aug 20, 2012
London: A total of 482 people wearing black pointed hats, black cloaks and carrying a broom have set a new world record for the biggest group of people dressed as witches in one place. The record was set on the 400th anniversary of the Pendle witch trials in Lancashire, the Daily Mail reported. The group trekked to Gallows Hill where 10 people were hanged in 1612 after being found guilty...
12:18 PM, Aug 20, 2012
London: A 21-year-old Indian-origin woman has created something of a record by pulling a double-decker bus in Leicester by a rope tied to her hair. The feat, performed by Asha Rani on Saturday in front of a large gathering of admiring crowds in the Leicester city centre, will now be verified before it is declared as a record. To break the current record, she had to pull the bus more...
03:32 PM, Aug 19, 2012
South Africa's captain will become the most-capped Test leader with 94 when the third Test against England starts at Lord's. ...
01:12 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Beijing: A Chinese man has tried to walk with a pair of iron shoes that weighed 300 kg in his attempt to break his previous Guinness record. Wukong attempted the feat in Sichuan province Wednesday, the Global Times reported. "I set the Guinness record by wearing a pair of iron shoes that weighed 200 kg last year. And this pair is 100 kg heavier," he said. Wukong began to walk,...
12:06 AM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal has topped the list of states that registered the maximum number of crimes against women last year, the Rajya Sabha was informed Wednesday. "West Bengal recorded 29,133 cases of crime against women. The highest number of cases registered among 28 states in 2011," Jitendra Singh, minister of state for home affairs, told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply to a question. According to a National...
09:17 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: Michael Phelps swam into history with his 19th Olympic medal, and this one was a more appropriate color. With a lot of help from his friends, Phelps took down the last major record that wasn't his alone, swimming the anchor leg for the United States in a gold medal-winning performance of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay Tuesday night. About an hour earlier, Phelps took one of the most frustrating defeats...
03:04 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Officials at London's Heathrow airport expected Thursday to be a record day for the number of arrivals. ...
09:43 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Madrid: Barcelona's failure to win La Liga helped them post a record 48.8 million euro profit for the 2011-12 season, vice-president for economic affairs Javier Faus said on Friday. After two consecutive years of financial losses and three consecutive league titles, Barca were beaten to the top spot in Spain by Real Madrid in May but avoided having to pay out 12 million euros in win bonuses. "If we had...
10:34 AM, Jul 21, 2012
If he plays in the first four home Tests this summer, he will overtake Steve Waugh as the most capped Aussie. ...
07:43 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Washington: If diplomatic achievements were measured by the number of countries visited, Hillary Clinton would be the most accomplished secretary of state in history. While historians will debate and eventually rate her tenure as America's top diplomat, Clinton is already assured of a place in the State Department record book. When her plane touched down at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington early on Tuesday morning, the former first lady...
02:46 AM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: As the nation tries to come to terms with the shocking molestation of a minor girl in Guwahati who was also beaten by her molesters, national crime statistics show a rise in incidences of crime against women. According to the Union ministry of home affairs' compendium on crime statistics, compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the incidence of crime against women in India has shot up...
10:42 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: As capital, Thiruvananthapuram should set an example for other districts, you might say. But there are also instances when the top position can be embarrassing. For example, between January 1 and June 30 this year - a matter of just 181 days - a staggering 6,665 cases were registered in the States police stations for crimes against women, and Thiruvananthapuram district accounted for 890 of them, topping the list....
02:13 PM, Jul 12, 2012
