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18th May 2006, 02:59 PM
Indian World Records
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Highest Score In Men's International Hockey
The highest score in men’s international hockey occurred when India defeated the USA 24-1, at Los Angeles, California, USA, in the 1932 Olympic Games.
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Largest Bus Fleet
The largest fleet of buses is owned by the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation in India. As of October 31, 1999, the company owned a total of 18,397 buses.
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Largest Motorcycle Pyramid
The Dare Devils Team of the Indian Army Signal Corps achieved a motorcycle pyramid consisting of 201 men balanced on 10 motorcycles, on July 5th, 2001 at Gowri Shankar Parade Ground, Jabalpur, India. The pyramid travelled a distance of 129 m (424 ft).
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Highest Motorable Road
The highest motorable road in the world is in the Khardungla Pass, Kashmir, India. At its highest point it climbs to an altitude of 5,682 m (18,640 ft). It was completed in 1976 by the Border Roads Organization, New Delhi, and has been open to motor vehicles since 1988. The Khardungla pass is one of the three passes on the mountainous Leh to Manali road route.
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Oldest Steam Locomotive Still In Use
The Fairy Queen was built in 1855 by Kitson, Thompson & Hewitson, of England. Used until 1909, it was restored in 1966, and between October 1997 and February 1998, it made several trips along the 89-km line between New Delhi and Alwar, India.
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Worst Mid-Air Collision
A total of 351 people died in an air crash 80 km. (50 miles) southwest of New Delhi, India, on November 12, 1996, when a Saudi Boeing 747 scheduled flight collided with a Kazakh Ilushin 76 charter flight. The majority of the dead were Indian, but fortunately there were no land casualties as both planes crashed down outside of Delhi.
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Country with the most murders
According to the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention, covering the period 1998 - 2000, the country with the most murders is India with 37,170
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Youngest Masters Graduate
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (b. September 9, 1987) of New Delhi, India, successfully passed his M.Sc in Physics from Patna University, at the age of 12 years, two months, and 19 days, on November 28, 1999.
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Largest School
The largest school in terms of pupils is the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, which had a record enrolment of 29,212 pupils on 11 April 2005 for the 2004-2005 academic year. Admissions are continuing for the same period and the school is expecting to surpass a total enrolement of 30,000.
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Largest Tree Canopy
The tree canopy of the great banyan (Ficus benghalensis), in the Indian Botanical Garden, Calcutta, covers an area of 1.2 ha (3 acres). It has 1,775 prop or supporting roots, a circumference of 412 m (1,350 ft) and dates back to 1787.
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Tallest homegrown cactus
The tallest homegrown cactus (Cereus uruguayanus) measured 21.3 m (70 ft) on January 1, 2004 and was grown by Pandit S. Munji (India) in Dharwad, Karnataka, India. The 'hedge cactus' was planted in January 1990 and typically grows to 6 m (19 ft).
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Heaviest Hailstones
The heaviest hailstones on record, weighing up to 1 kg (2.2 lb.), are reported to have killed 92 people in the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, on April 14, 1986. The Eighties hailstorm wasn't the first time citizens of the Indian subcontinent have been struck by such freak weather conditions - hailstones thought to be the size of baseballs killed scores of people and 1,600 cattle in 1888, in the Moradabad and Beheri districts of India.
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Highest Monthly Rainfall
For a calendar month, the record is 9,300 mm (366 in) at Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India, in July 1861. The 12-month record was also set at Cherrapunji, with 26,461 mm (1,041 in) from August 1, 1860 to July 31, 1861.
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Longest saree / sari
The longest saree/sari measured 388.9 m (1276 ft) long and 1.2 m (4 ft) wide and was created by a team of weavers for Pothy’s on a traditional loom. The saree/sari weighed 45 kg (99.2 lb) and was completed in February 2005, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Largest Lantern
In 1998, a lantern measuring 11.58 m (38 ft) tall and 6.7 m (22 ft) wide was made by a team of nine people from 2,000 sheets of thermocol and 25 kg (55 lb) of nails. It was shown at Ganesh Kala Krida, Pune, India and lit by ten 250w bulbs.
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LONGEST BANNER
Rotary International PolioPlus India displayed a cloth banner measuring 50.4 km (31.3 miles) long and 1 metre (3.2ft) wide on February 22nd, 2002 in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
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Most published letters to newspaper editors
B.T. Dastur (India) had 2,493 letters to the editors of newspapers and journals published between November 1955 and April 2004.
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And More to come.......
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Highest Score In Men's International Hockey
The highest score in men’s international hockey occurred when India defeated the USA 24-1, at Los Angeles, California, USA, in the 1932 Olympic Games.
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Largest Bus Fleet
The largest fleet of buses is owned by the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation in India. As of October 31, 1999, the company owned a total of 18,397 buses.
-----
Largest Motorcycle Pyramid
The Dare Devils Team of the Indian Army Signal Corps achieved a motorcycle pyramid consisting of 201 men balanced on 10 motorcycles, on July 5th, 2001 at Gowri Shankar Parade Ground, Jabalpur, India. The pyramid travelled a distance of 129 m (424 ft).
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Highest Motorable Road
The highest motorable road in the world is in the Khardungla Pass, Kashmir, India. At its highest point it climbs to an altitude of 5,682 m (18,640 ft). It was completed in 1976 by the Border Roads Organization, New Delhi, and has been open to motor vehicles since 1988. The Khardungla pass is one of the three passes on the mountainous Leh to Manali road route.
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Oldest Steam Locomotive Still In Use
The Fairy Queen was built in 1855 by Kitson, Thompson & Hewitson, of England. Used until 1909, it was restored in 1966, and between October 1997 and February 1998, it made several trips along the 89-km line between New Delhi and Alwar, India.
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Worst Mid-Air Collision
A total of 351 people died in an air crash 80 km. (50 miles) southwest of New Delhi, India, on November 12, 1996, when a Saudi Boeing 747 scheduled flight collided with a Kazakh Ilushin 76 charter flight. The majority of the dead were Indian, but fortunately there were no land casualties as both planes crashed down outside of Delhi.
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Country with the most murders
According to the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention, covering the period 1998 - 2000, the country with the most murders is India with 37,170
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Youngest Masters Graduate
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (b. September 9, 1987) of New Delhi, India, successfully passed his M.Sc in Physics from Patna University, at the age of 12 years, two months, and 19 days, on November 28, 1999.
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Largest School
The largest school in terms of pupils is the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, which had a record enrolment of 29,212 pupils on 11 April 2005 for the 2004-2005 academic year. Admissions are continuing for the same period and the school is expecting to surpass a total enrolement of 30,000.
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Largest Tree Canopy
The tree canopy of the great banyan (Ficus benghalensis), in the Indian Botanical Garden, Calcutta, covers an area of 1.2 ha (3 acres). It has 1,775 prop or supporting roots, a circumference of 412 m (1,350 ft) and dates back to 1787.
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Tallest homegrown cactus
The tallest homegrown cactus (Cereus uruguayanus) measured 21.3 m (70 ft) on January 1, 2004 and was grown by Pandit S. Munji (India) in Dharwad, Karnataka, India. The 'hedge cactus' was planted in January 1990 and typically grows to 6 m (19 ft).
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Heaviest Hailstones
The heaviest hailstones on record, weighing up to 1 kg (2.2 lb.), are reported to have killed 92 people in the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, on April 14, 1986. The Eighties hailstorm wasn't the first time citizens of the Indian subcontinent have been struck by such freak weather conditions - hailstones thought to be the size of baseballs killed scores of people and 1,600 cattle in 1888, in the Moradabad and Beheri districts of India.
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Highest Monthly Rainfall
For a calendar month, the record is 9,300 mm (366 in) at Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India, in July 1861. The 12-month record was also set at Cherrapunji, with 26,461 mm (1,041 in) from August 1, 1860 to July 31, 1861.
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Longest saree / sari
The longest saree/sari measured 388.9 m (1276 ft) long and 1.2 m (4 ft) wide and was created by a team of weavers for Pothy’s on a traditional loom. The saree/sari weighed 45 kg (99.2 lb) and was completed in February 2005, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Largest Lantern
In 1998, a lantern measuring 11.58 m (38 ft) tall and 6.7 m (22 ft) wide was made by a team of nine people from 2,000 sheets of thermocol and 25 kg (55 lb) of nails. It was shown at Ganesh Kala Krida, Pune, India and lit by ten 250w bulbs.
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LONGEST BANNER
Rotary International PolioPlus India displayed a cloth banner measuring 50.4 km (31.3 miles) long and 1 metre (3.2ft) wide on February 22nd, 2002 in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
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Most published letters to newspaper editors
B.T. Dastur (India) had 2,493 letters to the editors of newspapers and journals published between November 1955 and April 2004.
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And More to come.......