World Records
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Longest nails to longest hair on teenager: India holds 80 Guinness World Records
India also held the dubious distinction of having the world’s most polluted city – Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
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A ledger gives a sense of how the East India Company was singed by the 1666 London fire
Judging from the entries for the cost of drinks, moving goods from the ravaged Company headquarters was thirsty work.
Margaret Makepeace
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T-Series’ Bhushan Kumar wins Guinness World Records certificate for most YouTube subscribers
The 36-year-old Indian music production firm surpassed its major online rival PewDiePie, which has 96 million subscribers.
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Trending
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Listening to 41 Modi interviews: Few tough questions, no rebuttals, no fact checks
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Varanasi poll: As 33 nominations are rejected, eight applicants allege that the process was rigged
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Bow and arrow or torch? In Maharashtra, confusion over new election symbols may help BJP, allies
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Ramachandra Guha: How would Vallabhbhai Patel have viewed the BJP’s pernicious misuse of his legacy?
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What a regal South Indian ornament in a famous Rossetti painting tells us about the British Raj
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World’s oldest man and Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal dies at 113, say reports
Kristal married another Holocaust survivor after the second World War and moved to Israel in 1950.
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Watch: Competitive eating legend sets a spicy world record not for the faint-hearted
Who can eat the most Bhut Jolokia chilli peppers in two minutes?
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Watch: They broke the world record for the highest basketball shot from a dam. Yes, that's a thing
How ridiculous!
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Video
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Eco India: Even as technology lends a hand, India's farmers grapple with an uncertain future
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Eco India, Episode 260: Can technology's societal benefits extend to environmental sustainability?
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Video: How free and fair are Indian elections today?
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Watch: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan walks the Cannes red carpet with an injured arm
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Watch: Meet Figaro, the curious cat who loves to ‘help’ her human making pottery
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Watch this jump: Even by the weird standards of Guinness World Records, it's extraordinary
A bungee jump, a biscuit and a cup of tea.
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Watch: Indian man hugs his way into Guinness World Records in hilarious video
These are some mad hugging skills, with an assured place in the history of social affection.
Rhema Mukti Baxter
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Video: This American teenager just set a world record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours
Inspired by his father's battle against cancer, Andrew Shapiro pulled off 7306 pull-ups in 24 hours.
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The Reel
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Is Anirban Bhattacharya Bengali cinema’s white knight?
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Start the week with a film: Why Farah Khan’s ‘Main Hoon Na’ endures
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‘Chandu Champion’ trailer: Kartik Aaryan in biopic of Paralympic gold medalist Murlikant Petkar
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‘It Ends With Us’ trailer: Blake Lively stars in drama about an abusive relationship
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‘Thalaimai Seyalagam’ review: Overcooked and unsavoury