When their feet, err feats, made them famous

As Guinness World Records turns 60 this year, Rediff.com takes a look at some of the weirder records that are featured in the new edition. 1) Largest feet   Venezuelan Jeison Orlando......

Stunning winners of National Geographic's nature photography competition

Feeling down and out? These photos of the National Geographic’s annual nature photographer of the year contest are sure to get you up and about and excited. A stunning shot of an......

National Geographic's Photographer of the Year Pix

The competition for the 'Oscars' in the photography world is heating up in the National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest. Entries have been a mixture of breathtaking beauty,......

Here comes Honda's powerful 7-seater BR-V!

Honda BR-V will be launched in India this year.Photographs: Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com at the Auto Expo.   Honda cars India on Wednesday unveiled its seven-seater crossover utility vehicle......

Yamaha Motor plans Gladiator exports

Yamaha Motor India plans to export its newly launched bike, the 125 cc Gladiator, from its manufacturing base in India. Takahiro Maeda, director and executive vice president at Yamaha Motor India,......

Amritraj in second round of Comerica Challenger

Prakash Amritraj beat Japanese qualifier Takahiro Terachi 6-2, 6-4 to enter the second round of US $75,000 Comerica Challenger Series tournament in Aptos, California. The wild card entrant is now......

Indian duo rows to bronze glory

Indian rowing duo of Kiran Yalamanchi and Bijender Singh showed tremendous grit as they edged out their rivals from Kazakhstan to bag the bronze medal in Men's Lightweight Double Sculls event of......

Prakash Amritraj in quarters

Maintaining his winning streak, Prakash Amritraj ousted second seed Michal Mertinek of Slovakia to storm into the quarter-finals in the ATP Challenger in Dharwad, Karnataka, on Thursday.Amritraj......

Paes/Bhupathi give India 2-1 lead

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi gave India a 2-1 lead in the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I second round match against Japan after beating Thomas Shimada and Takahiro Terachi in the doubles rubber......

Hamilton makes it a year of Mercedes poles

Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mercedes GP poses next to Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP and Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Ferrari after claiming pole position during qualifying for......