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  Canadian scientists set Guinness record for the world's smallest national flag

  World | September 20, 2016 18:00 IST

  A team of Canadian scientists have a set a world record for creating the smallest national flag ever measured, ahead of the country’s 150th anniversary next year. The flag developed by them measures about one-hundredth

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  Arctic sea ice hits second lowest level ever recorded, reveal scientists

  World | September 19, 2016 11:53 IST

  The sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean this summer is at its second lowest ever recorded, a report has found. Scientists have found that the ice levels have plummeted to the minimum extent of

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  WATCH! 1,007 dancing robots set Guinness World Record in China

  World | August 16, 2016 12:45 IST

  A total of 1,007 robots moving effortlessly in unison in China not only made for a great spectacle, it also earned a new Guinness World Record for the maximum robots dancing simultaneously. The event took

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  Ton and five wickets in a match: Ashwin the only Indian to do it twice

  Cricket | July 25, 2016 11:37 IST

  Riding on Ravichandran Ashwin’s 7/83, India outplayed West Indies by an inning and 92 runs, thereby registering their biggest win outside Asia.

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  Dipa Karmakar becomes first Indian to be certified 'World Class Gymnast'

  Other Sports | July 06, 2016 20:03 IST

  New Delhi: Depa Karmakar has scripted history by becoming the first Indian to be named as 'World Class Gymnast' by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique or FIG. The confirmation for the 'World Class Gymnast'

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  New record of 65 million people displaced worldwide in 2015: UN Report

  World | June 20, 2016 12:32 IST

  Geneva: The number of people displaced worldwide has now hit a new record, with 65.3 million people forced from their home at the end of last year, according to United Nations report released today. The

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  Private Buffett lunch goes to highest bidder for over Rs 22 crore

  World | June 11, 2016 11:26 IST

  For the second time, an anonymous bidder has agreed to pay more than Rs 22 crore for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett, with the auction proceeds going to a San Francisco homeless charity.

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  Alastair Cook surpasses Sachin Tendulkar, becomes youngest player to score 10,000 Test runs

  Cricket | May 30, 2016 21:47 IST

  England’s Test team captain Alastair Cook today surpassed legendary Sachin Tendulkar to become the youngest cricketer ever to reach the 10,000-run landmark in Test cricket.

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  With Sunrisers Hyderabad’s maiden IPL title win, Yuvraj made a unique record

  Cricket | May 30, 2016 20:37 IST

  Yuvraj became the only player to win the Under-19 World Cup (2000), Champions Trophy (jointly with Sri Lanka in 2002), T20 World Cup (2007), World Cup (2011) and finally the IPL 2016.

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  Kohli breaks Suresh Raina’s record, becomes IPL’s all time highest run-scorer

  Cricket | May 29, 2016 23:59 IST

  Virat Kohli’s dominance in the Indian Premier League season 9 continued today as he overtook Suresh Raina to become IPL’s all time highest run-scorer.

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  Alastair Cook misses Tendulkar’s record to become youngest player to make 10,000 Test runs

  Cricket | May 27, 2016 20:28 IST

  England’s Test team captain Alastair Cook today missed the chance of breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s 11-year-old record of being the youngest cricketer to reach the 10,000 runs milestone

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  James Anderson breaks Kapil Dev’s record with his five-wicket haul against Lanka

  Cricket | May 21, 2016 17:54 IST

  England’s pace battery James Anderson broke Kapil Dev’s record to become the sixth highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he picked up 5/16 to bundle Sri Lanka out for 91.

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  IPL 2016: For the first time in his career, this player will miss an IPL match

  Cricket | May 13, 2016 19:57 IST

  Suresh Raina will be missing an IPL game for the first time ever as he is flying to Holland to be with his wife Priyanka, who is expecting their first child.

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  Virat Kohli’s 56-ball ton breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s IPL record

  Cricket | May 07, 2016 20:28 IST

  In today’s IPL clash RPS, RCB skipper Virat Kohli not only smashed the second century in the tournament, he also broke Tendulkar’s record of scoring 500 runs in two separate editions

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  Shaolin monk walks on water for 125 meters, breaks own record

  World | September 05, 2015 19:56 IST

  New Delhi:  Shi Liliang, a monk who made headlines last year by running 118 metres on surface of a water reservoir, established a new personal best of 125 meters on last week.He broke his own

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  BMW's profit hits new record in H1

  World | August 04, 2015 17:25 IST

  Munich: German car producer BMW group said on Tuesday its earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) had hit a new record in the first half of 2015, exceeding 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion) for the first

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  WWE superstar Dwayne Johnson sets selfie world record - 105 in 3 mins

  Other Sports | May 24, 2015 22:08 IST

  Los Angeles:  The historic feat went down at the premiere of his new action-disaster film "San Andreas" in London, where he finally got a chance to flex his arm strength by capturing 105 selfies in

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  Researchers break internet speed record, hit 1Tbps

  February 28, 2015 9:45 IST

  London: UK researchers have achieved record-breaking speeds of 1Tbps during tests of 5G data connections.Researchers at the University of Surrey's 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) managed speeds of 1 Tbps -- thousands of times faster than

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  World Cup 2015: Australian crowd awed by Chris Gayle's record performance

  Cricket | February 24, 2015 15:04 IST

  Canberra, Australia: An awe-struck crowd had no doubt they were witnessing something special when West Indies opener Chris Gayle slogged two consecutive sixes into the grandstands.Those were balls No. 73 and 74 he faced, and

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  'The Interview' rakes in $1mn, North Korea cries foul

  Hollywood | December 29, 2014 10:52 IST

  Washington: The comedy film, "The Interview", which has been courting controversies for showing a fictitious US plot to assassinate the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, raked in around $1 million in ticket sales Dec 25,