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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicGuinness Records

Topic: Guinness Records

Over 11,000 folk artistes dance & regale Assam to two Guinness records

Performers set two individual records — one for the ‘Bihuwa & Bihuwati’, or male and female Bihu performers in traditional attire, and the other for ‘Dhuliyas’, Assamese men playing folk instruments.

Sarma govt’s essay campaign on Ahom warrior Lachit Barphukan sets Guinness record

The essay campaign on the Ahom commander who helped defeat the Mughals saw some 43 lakh entries and set a record for the ‘largest online photo album of handwritten notes’.

Assam sets eyes on Guinness record for largest Bihu dance. 11,000 performers, one stadium

Guwahati: With workshops across all 31 districts, Assam is going all out in its effort to set a Guinness record for the world’s largest...

Assam farmers welcome ‘friend’ barn owls with artificial nests to keep rodents at bay

Snippets from the vibrant Northeast that capture politics, culture, society and more in the eight states.

Shehroze Kashif in Guinness Records is the pride of Pakistan—youngest to scale Everest, K2

The 19-year-old from Lahore was also the youngest Pakistani to scale Everest on 6 May this year.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.