The music capital of North East India, Shillong is all set to rock to the tune of the 'biggest ever guitar ensemble' on October 26 in an attempt to storm into the Guinness Book of World Record.
The four have already crossed the 35-km stretch from Dharamtar to Gateway of India last year. But the attempt to cross the English Channel is their biggest mission so far.
This week's collection of stories that prove we live in a truly mad, mad world.
11,292 km. 20 million (Nitish Kumar says 30 million) Biharis. 45 minutes.
Thiagarajan, who had primarily restricted his aviation activities to south India, is now locating stars of fortune in western and central India for possible acquisitions
Dheena, the well-known RJ in the Chennai circuit, told media persons in Chennai on Tuesday that though the aim was to surpass the existing record of 135 hours set by Italian RJ Stefano Venneri of Radio BBSI Station in Italy last year, he however wanted to set a new benchmark.
The sub-quota scheme may now lead to a ganging up of non-Vanniyars in individual constituencies against the Vanniyars just as in the past, such ganging up against SC-ST candidates was seen in the non-quota constituencies, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The world's largest spirits company Diageo is upping its play in India, even as the home-grown UB Group sets out to conquer mature global markets.
Will the present Government in Delhi follow the same ostrich policy as Nehru's and pretend that there is no problem between friends? Or will they have the courage to put all ticklish issues on the table during Hu Jintao's visit?
Bahader had previously told media he was 75, which he attributed to "rounding up".
More than 2500 women from 14 countries contributed to the blanket.
In her message, she urged the youth, especially her great-great-grand children to look after themselves.
Glendale Tea estate at Coonoor in Tamil Nadu says the black tea it has made is of SFTGFOP (Super-Fine Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe) grade and fetches a price of $600 for a kilo.
A Chennai-based surgeon has performed 50 hernia surgeries in 24 hours in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records.
The world's oldest person says 117 years doesn't seem like such a long time.
Accusing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa of constantly badgering Prime Minister Narendra Modi with letters on sundry issues, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday alleged that most of her letters went to the trash anyway and her recent one demanding the exemption of the state from National Eligibility cum Entrance Test belongs to the waste bin as well.
The Jan-Dhan accounts are zero balance accounts, comes with a life cover of Rs 30,000 per person, and an accidental cover of Rs 100,000. An active user of the account can also get overdraft facility of Rs 5,000 from banks.
It's a truly bizarre world we live in... These images prove it.
The couple -- 105-year-old Percy Arrowsmith and 100-year-old Florence -- already hold the Guinness World Records for the longest marriage and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple.
Master Kishan's film has good performances, a good story and nice music.
Archis Patil was forced to abandon professional football after injuries, but his passion for the sport found other outlets, discovers Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com
The 24-year-old Thanjoomi wants to better her own record in 2007.
The city museum of Heyuan has a collection of 10,008 dinosaur egg fossils.
Several couples are keeping the dance floor alive in an attempt to break the Guinness record of a party that lasted for 52 hours and three minutes in Cleveland, US.
100,000 Chinese will sing a traditional folk song together to mark a provincial tourism festival.
Here's your weekly digest of photographs that prove that it's a odd, crazy world out there!
Septuagenarian Volker Kraft and his wife have been decorating an apple tree in their garden since the early 1990s.
Diageo on Thursday took full control of South African beer maker United National Breweries.
A look at the world's first diamond and gold cricket ball, made with 2704 diamonds and 18 carat gold stitch.
A look at some daredevil acts in recent years
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
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