Dubai, UAE – February 24, 2016 – A bag of rice weighing 550 kilograms has entered the Book of World Records for being the heaviest bag of rice; the rice bag of India Gate Classic Basmati Rice brand has achieved the feat at the annual 4-day food and hospitality trade show being held in Dubai. Photo: KRBL director Priyanka Mittal. KRBL …

Ipoh, Malaysia – February 24, 2016 – The world’s largest holdall bag, which took 1,492 people six months to put together, is being exhibited in Ipoh; sewn together using 2,984 old t-shirts, the 7.62m long, 3.04m wide and 5.44m high, the world’s biggest replica bag is part of a sewing exhibition being held at the Ipoh Parade Shopping Mall. Photo: The …

Gastonia, NC, USA – February 25, 2016 – The Schiele Museum of Natural History celebrated the 100th anniversary of Tony’s Ice Cream with an exhibit called “The Scoop on Ice Cream;” a special ice cream making event brought together 274 volunteers who were filmed taking part in the activity, thus setting the world record for the largest ice cream making lesson. …

London, UK – February 29, 2016 – James Ware, a YouTube personality in Britain, used bits of tape and pipe to built a selfie stick that measured 9.57 metres, which sets the new world record for the Longest selfie stick. Photo: James Ware, a YouTube personality in Britain, have built the world’s longest selfie stick. The Guinness World Records world record …

Bollywood’s Khalnayak Sanjay Dutt is the latest example of the fact that life of Bollywood stars is not a bed of roses. Many B-Town biggies have gone through a dark phase in their lives and have even served time in jail. While Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan are most talked about actors who were behind the bars, there are few …

Art is as simple and as complicated as you make it, quite literally. So, on our visit to Anu Singh’s art exhibition at the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Sector 10, Chandigarh what stood out as a solitary overwhelming experience was the fact that Anu’s paintings were inspired by nature. Of course there are many artists who paint nature, but …

Even if you do not sweat it out in the gym very morning, swapping out just a few minutes of sedentary time with some sort of movement can help you live longer, suggests new research. In the study involving over 3,000 people aged 50 to 79, the researchers found that the least active people were five times more likely to …

Each canvas draws a comparison between the simple life left behind in small towns and the urbanised, mechanical existence we’ve carved for ourselves. Nails of Time, the exhibition of paintings and installations by Ram Partap, is a walk down the memory lane only to come to terms with reality that surrounds us. Although captions would have helped, several symbolic elements …

A team of US researchers including an Indian-origin scientist has formulated a new method that can predict with 70 percent accuracy the likelihood that your tweets — that are part of an ongoing debate or a movement — will become part of a larger and even violent protest later. The study from researchers at Arizona State University, Texas A&M University …

कैसे ये मासूम पाखी तूफान से टकराएंगे आंधियों में किस तरह लौट कर घर आएंगे इन की हिम्मत में है जोखिम से खेलना जोखिमों से खेलते एक दिन मर जाएंगे गमलों में ये बदबू सी क्यों आने लगी बदल दो पानी वरना पेड़ सब मर जाएंगे दूध सांपों को क्या पिलाएं इस साल बांबियों में नहीं, संसद की गली मुड़ …