Bangalore: Spelling the word 'Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' could stump many, but not 25-year-old Guinness Book record holder Shishir Hathwar, who can not only do it without batting an eyelid but in the reverse order as well. It is not just this word (which means fear of long words) he can rattle off, but a number of others including 'grotesqueness'. Bangalore based Hatwar, an Electronics Engineer in BHEL, clinched the world record this...
11:33 AM, Mar 14, 2011
New Delhi: It was a one of its kind event as 75 couples assembled in Delhi for a shaving lesson from Bollywood actors Neha Dhupia to Arjun Rampal to aim at a world record. Gillette India organised what was claimed to be the world's largest shaving lesson at Ansal Plaza on Friday. The organisers claimed they were aiming to enter the Guinness World Records and the Limca Book of Records,...
06:59 PM, Mar 11, 2011
Brussels: Many would see it as a humiliation, but for Belgium it's an excuse for a party - the country's citizens are marking 249 days without a government on Thursday, a figure that they are treating as a world record. Day to day the crisis pits the leaders of 6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings against those of 4.5 million French speakers, but people from across the country are putting aside their...
04:57 PM, Feb 17, 2011
New Delhi: It seems Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, who will be hosting the Indian version of "Guinness World record", is finding her stint on small screen hard. "Just finished shooting 1 of the Guiness world record episodes! Hats off to Amitji, Salman, Shah Rukh, Akshay and Priyanka Chopra for rocking TV as its SO TIRING ! Phew! (sic)," Preity wrote on microblogging site Twitter. The show will be telecast later...
04:57 PM, Feb 11, 2011
New Delhi: An India-born woman entrepreneur has entered the Guinness record for executing a towering mosaic portrait, the largest in the world, using only handmade marble tiles. The 8x5 metre portrait of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the ruler of Oman presented to him in November 2010 on the 40th anniversary of his accession to power has been created out of stones sourced from the mountains and sea beds of Oman....
01:34 PM, Jan 30, 2011
Mumbai: For the live recording of a song to be done in participation with online listeners on two popular microblogs, singer Adnan Sami garnered a whopping 475,000 participants. The huge number of participants for Adnan's tribute to his father that he recorded on January 21 at the Yash Raj Studios, has encouraged the composer-singer to attempt a whole album with live participants pitching in with their suggestions. The proposed album...
01:13 PM, Jan 29, 2011
Mumbai: The dimple-cheeked actress Preity Zinta, who is making her television debut with "Guinness World Records-Ab India Todega", will be seen in a sporty avatar in the show which is set to go on air later this year on Colors. The 35-year-old is being styled by fashion designer Surily Goel and her promo look is complete with a waistcoat over a casual shirt teamed with boots and gloves. The dimpled...
07:20 PM, Jan 27, 2011
London: The superhit TV musical 'Glee' has broken Elvis Presley's UK chart record, becoming the fastest act to score 20 top 40 hits. The Golden Globe award winning show achieved 20 top 40 hits in 57 weeks, beating The King's record, reported Contactmusic. The stars of the TV show achieved the feat on Sunday when their rendition of Britney Spears' 'Toxic' entered the UK singles chart at number 40. They...
03:53 PM, Jan 25, 2011
Tokyo: A Japanese businessman using a home-built computer has taken calculations of the mathematical concept of 'pi' to the trillions of digits and won a world record for his labors. Shigeru Kondo, a systems engineer in his 50s at a food company in the central Japanese prefecture of Nagano, in August calculated pi - the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter - to five trillion digits, almost doubling...
12:46 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Guwahati: Sticking to his controversial statement on Hemant Karkare, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said he was "not a liar" and was trying to get phone records to prove that the slain Maharashtra ATS chief had spoken to him a few hours before the 2008 Mumbai attacks. "I am not a liar, there is no need for me to lie that I had spoken to Hemant Karkare. There is...
05:27 PM, Dec 14, 2010
Directed by debutant Maneesh Sharma, the film got a unanimous thumbs up from the critics with an average rating of three stars. ...
12:33 PM, Dec 14, 2010
Aurangabad: History was created on Sunday in Aurangabad when the young entrepreneurs including builders, industrialists, doctors and other professionals booked 101 BMW cars in a single day. Pankaj Agrawal, one of the young industrialists said that the reason behind the mass booking was to put the name of their city in front of the world along with availing group discounts. "The main aim of making a group of 101 BMW...
11:36 AM, Nov 22, 2010
New Delhi: The final report on the crash of the Air India Express plane at Mangalore airport, in which 158 people were killed, has been submitted to the Civil Aviation Ministry. Civil aviation sources have told CNN-IBN that the crash was caused by pilot error. Sources say the report claims pilot Captain Zlatko Glusica slept for over 90 minutes during the flight. The Air India Express IC 812 Boeing 737-800...
08:16 PM, Nov 16, 2010
Patna: Politicians in Bihar are getting younger by the day! They've furnished false affidavits about their age and also lying about the number of criminal cases against them These leaders can give Baba Ramdev a run for his money. It seems they've defied the ageing process! "Why does Election Commissioner accept such false information? says national coordinator Anjesh Kumar. In 2005, heavyweight JD(U) leader Anant Singh was 41. If you...
07:55 AM, Oct 27, 2010
Patna: Against only 36 multi-millionaires in the last Assembly elections, there are over 100 multi-millionaires in the second and third phases of the ongoing Bihar polls, a report by two NGOs has said. It adds that 219 candidates have criminal records. The Association of Democratic Reforms and the National Election Watch said Thursday that 104 candidates contesting for the second and third phases on Oct 24 and Oct 28 were...
01:04 PM, Oct 22, 2010
New Delhi: Indian car market leader Maruti Suzuki on Wednesday reported its highest ever monthly sales of 23.6 per cent for August at 104,791 units as compared to 84,808 vehicles for the like period of 2009. According to the company, the domestic market for its cars grew at 32.5 per cent at 92,674 units in August as compared to 69,961 cars for the corresponding period of last year. "This is...
03:14 PM, Sep 01, 2010
