The Guinness World Records has acknowledged Konyak dance as record holder for the "largest traditional dance", a tribe official said on Wednesday.


Konyak dance is the largest traditional dance: Guinness Records


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Abdul Razzaq died of lung cancer last May. He was the fourth victim of cancer from a family that hails from Sakras village in Haryana's most backward district, Nuh.


Haryana's cancer village awaits state attention


An expedition team, assigned to remeasure the height of the world's tallest mountain peak, left for Mount Everest on Wednesday.


Nepal flags off team to remeasure Everest's height


The United Nations has announced that it has started going partially paperless by stopping printing of press releases.


UN stops printing press releases, goes paperless


Youth are leading India's start-up ecosystem where the median age of founder-entrepreneurs is only 31 years, according to India's youth delegate at the UN.


Median age of founders of Indian start-ups only 31


A five-month old baby girl from Kolkata has become India's youngest liver transplant patient, doctors at the Max Super Speciality Hospital said here on Tuesday.


Kolkata girl youngest Indian to get liver transplant


A Canadian national of Indian origin won a jackpot of $1 million in Dubai Duty Free (DDF) Millennium Millionaire raffle on Tuesday.


Indo-Canadian man hits $1m jackpot in Dubai


The government has begun the process for registration of pilgrims for this years Kailash Mansarovar Yatra which will be held from June 8 to September 8 through two routes.


Registration begins for Kailash Mansarovar Yatra


A group of ethnic Tibetan youth from a poverty-stricken village in China's Sichuan province will make their first overseas trip to the US to widen their horizons as part of a UN poverty-relief programme, an organiser said.


UN offers ethnic Tibetan youths in China trip to US


Horses are her passion for 15-year-old Kerala school girl C.N. Krishna -- so much so that the teenager came to the schoool astride her pet horse Rana on the last day of the CBSE Board exam on March 29.


Horses are her passion for this Kerala teenage schoolgirl


Scientists have caught a female python in the US state of Florida that was more than 17-feet-long, weighed 140 pounds and contained 73 developing eggs, the media reported.


Record 17-foot-long python captured in Florida


At least 100 million and maybe as many as a billion birds die each year in the US when they collide with buildings, especially glass-covered or illuminated skyscrapers, according to a new study.


Skyscrapers killing up to 1 bn birds annually in US


A suspected rhino poacher was trampled on by an elephant and then eaten by lions in South Africa's Kruger National Park, the media reported on Sunday.


Poacher killed by elephant, eaten by lions


A marriage party had to obtain permission from the district authorities on Sunday to travel on the highway from Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district to Doda.


Groom gets permission to travel to bride's home in J&K


The San Diego Zoo in the US state of California kick-off three-week farewell event for two giant pandas who are slated to leave for China later this month.


San Diego Zoo holds farewell party for giant pandas


Separated due to visa-related discrepancies from her 11-year-old daughter who is currently under care of temporary guardians in Goa, a 42-year-old Polish single mother stranded in Thailand, has now reached out to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Twitter for help in desperation.


Separated from kid, Polish woman seeks Sushma's help


Zahra Elham, the first female winner of the popular Afghan singing show 'Afghan Star, is a prominent symbol of how women have managed to rebuild their lives and identities, following the brutal Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001.


Afghan singer fears Taliban return will curb women's rights


Kanishak Kataria, an alumnus of IIT Bombay, has topped the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) civil services exam whose results were declared on Friday.


IIT graduate Kanishak Kataria tops UPSC


A techie, Kanishak Kataria, from IIT Bombay, has topped the 2018 UPSC final examination, while Srushti Jayant Deshmukh has topped among women candidates, in the civil services exams the results of which were announced on Friday.


IIT Bombay techie tops UPSC 2018 exams


In a video that has gone viral on social media, the granddaughter of Kiran Bedi is seen accusing the Puducherry Lieutenant Governor of misusing "police influence" apparently to separate her from her father.


Granddaughter hits out at Kiran Bedi in viral video


Sikhs around the world are taking part in a scheme to plant a million new trees as a "gift to the entire planet" as part of celebrations to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak, the media reported on Friday.

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