Enter your Email Address to subscribe to our newsletters
This article is a summary of important events that have taken place in last one week affecting, India's national security . IMF recently released its annual report, lauding the Indian economy as a "star performer" among major economies.
Read More
Nestled amidst the picturesque foothills of the Zabarwan mountain range, the World Book of Records recognized Srinagar's Tulip Garden as Asia's largest tulip haven, adorned with 1.5 million tulip flowers showcasing an astonishing collection of 68 distinct tulip varieties.
It has been a year since the first-ever Indian infrastructure company registered its first Guinness World Record in the Guinness Book of World Records in the internationally important road construction segment.
Donald Trump, who became the first former US president to be indicted, arrested and arraigned on criminal charges, pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in person before State Supreme Court Justice Juan M Merchan.
The statue weighing 220 tonnes has been installed at the Kempegowda International Airport here. It has a sword weighing 4 tonnes.
Eleven lakh pilgrims reached Kedarnath Dham in the last 126 days, breaking the previous record of ten lakh pilgrims in 2019, according to the data released by officials. There is still one and a half month left and it is expected that the number of pilgrims to Kedarnath will cross 13 lakh.
More than 1,500 students from across the globe recited the entire Bhagavad Gita of 700 verses from memory. It was the largest Bhagavad Gita chanting from memory ever held and was streamed live.
The event was organised by Bihar BJP as part of 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' to mark the 164th death anniversary of Veer Kunwar Singh, the then ruler of Jagdishpur and one of the heroes of the Revolt of 1857.
Atal Tunnel was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 3, 2020.
Surat observed that the perpetrators in both cases faced justice within a month, which was an uncommon yet heartening development.
Director General Border Roads (DGBR) Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry received the Guinness World Records certificate for constructing the world’s highest motorable road at 19,024 feet at Umlingla Pass in Ladakh.
In a major development, road construction on the Solapur-Bijapur highway has set a record as the construction of 25.54 km road (one paved road) was completed in just 18 hours. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari informed this feat would be recorded in the Limca Book of Records.
The author takes a tour of historical perspective of communal violence in India to explain the present phenomenon of communal violence in the wake of CAA and NRC controversy with special reference to Delhi's Shaheen Bagh agitation.
We can do anything, and together we can do more! Favouring the said exclamation, Karnataka's Chethan Koppa and wife Akshatha Kudla have entered the '‘Exclusive World Records’ in making the largest paper cutting Art using papers and stencil; and making highest number of mimicry sounds in one minute, respectively.
Making the nation proud, Kiran Uniyal, wife of a serving Colonel of Indian Army has created Individual Guinness World Records for “The most full contact knee strikes in three minutes (one leg) (female), 263 strikes” & “The most full contact knee strikes alternate legs in one minute(female),120 strikes”. The earlier records were of 177 strikes and 102 in female category respectively. The objectives of both her records were to promote martial arts for girls and women's safety and self-defence. While creating
All the candidates and leaders of political parties, NGOs and social media platforms have run a drive to encourage people to vote. This campaign became more powerful when women from Kullu districts of Himachal Pradesh gathered together. To spread awareness and encourage people for voting around 5200 women danced with ink on their finger and voter Identification card in their hand. They spread a message to people to use their franchise to increase voter turnout. It was the largest traditional dance with vote
Ever heard of anyone making a world record for pouring concrete? Don’t be surprised. The record has been made previously which was broken by Polavaram project from Andhra Pradesh today. The Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh has entered the Guinness Book of World Records after construction workers poured 32,100 cubic meters of concrete within 24 hours.
Foreigners applying for Indian visa will now have to declare their criminal records as part of the new visa format. The move aims to check child sexual abuse and a range of other crimes by travelers.
Women safety has always been on top priority for the government, the Ministry oh Home Affairs has created a new division to address issues of women safety comprehensively. This Division would deal with all aspects of women safety in coordination with relevant Ministries or Departments and State Governments.
Over 1 crore crimes were registered against women during the last three years in the country. This was said by Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi to Rajya Sabha on Thursday. In a written reply to Rajya Sabha on being asked about the details of crime, Minister Maneka Gandhi said, “As per information received from National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, total number of crimes registered against women during the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 were 3,39,457, 329,243 and 3,38,954 respe
Over 2100 saints and locals unitedly played conch shells ‘Shankh’ with a message to promote peace in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband to create a world record and enter into Golden Book of World Records. The world record was set on the second day of Rajim Kumbh Mela.
The Guinness Book of World Records has officially approved Satyapira Pradhan of Odisha’s Bhawanipatna for creating a record in delivering most number of punches with one hand in a minute.
The Central Railway’s Matunga Railway station comprising of 41 lady staffers has entered the Limca Book of Records of being India’s first ‘all-women railway station’.
Caste, creed divides people now and it should be eliminated from all kinds of a document as quickly as possible. Therefore, taking a note of this Punjab, Haryana and the Chandigarh administration have decided to delete the column of ‘Caste’ in police records and FIRs.
While the residents in Bengal are already scared about dengue outbreak, a new report on Chicken Pox outbreak might scare them more. The state has recorded the highest number of the death toll from Chicken Pox. In 2016, 60 people had fallen victim to Chicken Pox across India while 35 among them were from West Bengal.
Uttar Pradesh stands on top in recording highest number of cybercrimes in India followed by Maharashtra. While Assam stands on fifth position, as per latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 696 cybercrime cases were reported during 2016 in Assam, which is an increase of over 44 per cent compared to the previous year. In 2015, there were 483 such cases in the State.
Like every coin having two sides, our Indian Army too has both sides. One is fierce and other is creative. It was a spectacular performance of Indian Army Service Corps (ASC), where 58 army men mounted on a single 500 cc Royal Enfield motorcycle and rode it for a distance of 1200 meters as part of a display at the Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bangaluru. Our Indian Army entered in the Book of Guinness World Record due to this fierce yet beautiful display.
On Saturday India entered into a book of Guinness World Records! This time the reason is ‘yummilicious’ because Indian set world record by cooking 918kg ‘Khichdi’, at the ongoing global food event- World Food India-2017. A team of 50 people led by celebrity Chef Sanjeev Kapoor and NGO Akshaya Patra supervised the night-long preparations and Yoga Guru Ramdev Baba put crowning ‘tadka’ in the dish at the World India Food event.
With biggest human logo comprising young voters in the state, the Meghalaya Election Department has entered Limca Book of Records. The logo formation was part of Mission Unite (U and I towards Enrolment) as part of the Special drive to enroll young and left out voters in the age categories of 18 to 21 years held in July at the Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex.
Meghalaya, a small state in the northeast India has earned the fame for entering into the Limca Book of Records for the formation of the biggest human logo involving young voters of the state, official sources said on Tuesday.
With an aim to make the state government’s data more secure, Telangana government soon to implement blockchain technology to enhance the security of its digitised revenue/land records. For the first time Telangana will adopt the digital mode to tamper proof the data regarding land records.
Indian cricket team is going through the brightest phase and all credit goes to the players and management. Indian team is in magical form and due to which records are showering in all the formats of cricket especially under Virat Kohli’s captaincy. Importantly, India grabbed the top spot in both ICC ODI and Test rankings for the first time in history.
