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LARGEST BAREFOOT WALK STUDENT OF PALAMURU UNIVERSITY INDIA

Paavan S. November 13, 2010

> The National Service Scheme (NSS) cell of Palamuru University broke the existing Guinness World Record for the ‘largest barefoot walk’. The event took place at 7.01 a.m. on Friday at the university campus in which over 2,500 people in various age groups participated, according to NSS programme coordinator of Vangeepuram Sreenatha Chary. The existing […]Read More

Education Philanthropy & Social

World Oldest Student – Freedom Fighter Bholaram Das

Paavan S. October 18, 2010

> A teacher, a lawyer, a judge and now back to being a student – 100-year-old Bholaram Das has just enrolled for his doctorate, perhaps becoming India’s oldest university student . Das has got admission in a PhD programme at the Gauhati University in Assam – an announcement he made at a public function organised […]Read More

Education Human Body Technology

LARGEST KIDNEY REMOVAL FROM A HUMAN BODY

Paavan S. September 27, 2010

> Three Pakistani surgeons have been credited by the book of Guinness World Record for removing the largest kidney ever from a human body on Saturday. Dr. Abdul Rashid along with two other doctors, namely, Dr. Altaf Hussain and Dr. Mool Chand, removed a kidney that weighed 1.8 kg in Larkana, Pakistan, on January 26th […]Read More

Amazing Feats Arts & Creativity Education Kids & Youngest Memory and Mental Math Technology

FOUR YEARS OLD GIRL WRITING ALPHABET IN 13 LANGUAGES IN

Paavan S. September 11, 2010

> M Shalini, a LKG student at Rotary school in Mysore has a innate ability to write with both hands at a time. Through her left hand she does a mirror writing, even as she is able to present the alphabet in a common way using her right hand simultaneously. She is able to write […]Read More

Arts & Creativity Education Largest and Longest Mass Participation Religion and Spirituality

WORLD’S LARGEST FLORAL CARPET

Paavan S. August 21, 2010

> In what could be an attempt at adopting a corporate culture, the Kerala Soaps Limited is having a go at making the largest ever floral carpet in the world in Kozhikode. This is close on the heels of a multinational company attempting the same at a convention centre in Thrissur. The ‘Manavamaithri Snehapookkalam’, a […]Read More

Education Memory and Mental Math

Spelling Words Backwards – Job Pottas

Paavan S. August 13, 2010

> After 18 years of applying and reapplying, Job Pottas has finally entered the Guinness Book of World Records for spelling words backwards in record time. Job, a native of Muvattupuzha, had entered the Limca Book of World Records in 1992 for the same feat. However, he was denied entry into the Guinness Book of […]Read More

Amazing Feats Education Kids & Youngest

11 AND 13 YEARS BOY BECOME YOUNGEST MBA GRADUATES

Paavan S. August 5, 2010

> Neel Joshi, 13 and his brother Deep, 11, class eight and class six students of Thakur Vidya Mandir School at Kandivali East in Mumbai are on their way to become India’s youngest MBA graduates as they have finished their first semester MBA with distinction from an institute affiliated to a U.S. varsity. The teen […]Read More

Arts & Creativity Education Technology

MOST NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Paavan S. July 21, 2010

A city-based electrical engineering student has entered into the World Record for having the most number of International research publications to her credit as an undergraduate researcher. 20-year-old V P Divya, a B Tech student of Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, has published 16 national and international research publications and seven more are in […]Read More

Education Largest and Longest

WORLD LONGEST BOOK TITLE BY PROF. VANGEEPURAM SREENATHACHARY

Paavan S. June 29, 2010

> An assistant professor from Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh has set a new Guinness World Record with the title of his book running into a record ‘1,086 words with 5,633 characters’. Vangeepuram Sreenathachary, assistant professor (English) at Palamuru University in Mahabubnagar district, wrote the book about the origin and etymology of 108 Idioms, Proverbs, […]Read More

Education Kids & Youngest Mass Participation

MOST NUMBER OF STUDENTS DRESS AS MAHATMA GANDHI

Paavan S. June 24, 2010

> In an effort to spread Gandhi’s message of peace and non -violence, about 255 students from a school in Coimbatore city of southern India’s Tamil Nadu state dressed up as Mahatma Gandhi. Draped in white ‘dhotis’, or unsewn cloth, and sporting fake moustaches and spectacles they walked along holding bamboo canes and singing the […]Read More