Aashman Taneja attempted the Guinness World Record for the most full contact knee strikes in one-hour non-stop and successfully achieved more than 1200 knee strikes.
The stretch, which connects Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, has been closed since December 15 after anti-CAA protesters parked themselves there and set up barricades on the road.
In a scathing attack on the Congress and other opposition parties for passing a resolution against Citzenship Amendment Act, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Pakistan must have been very happy by their resolution.
The Election commission organized a special voter awareness campaign on Monday at Delhi's Badali Assembly Constituency to aware people to come out large numbers and cast their votes during the upcoming assembly election. The election commission is trying to take all possible measures to ensure a large number of voter turnout.
According to the forecasting agency, under this influence, heavy rain or snowfall is likely at isolated places over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the next 24 hours.
Here's a roundup of top stories from the world of politics, business, sports, and entertainment, which grabbed the spotlight and trended the most on various social media platforms on January 13, (Monday).
The Information Minister of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Mushtaq Minhas, was brutally trolled on microblogging site Twitter over his reaction to Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane's statement on PoK.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Monday (January 13) issued a public notice providing a “one-time” opportunity to all drones and drone operators to voluntarily register their drones.
The United States wants Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited to face 18 charges including conspiring to hack government computers and violating an espionage law.
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday (January 13) quashed Pakistan's self-exiled former military dictator Pervez Musharraf's death sentence, saying the special tribunal which found him guilty of high treason was "unconstitutional".
India's ranking fell from a decade-high ranking of 74 to a low of 84 in 2020. The Henley Passport Index is the ranking of all the world`s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa.
An Indian Army jawan belonging to 11 Garhwal Rifles regiment has been missing for the last five days after he slipped in heavy snow during a routine routine patrolling and Line of Control dominating exercise in Gulmarg sector of Jammu and Kashmir. According to Indian Army officers rescue operation has been launched to trace and rescue the missing soldier.
Till now the volunteers have distributed 25000 cloth bag in the Gangasagar Mela which were made by using nearly 4000 cloths. According to the West Bengal government, nearly 50,000 devotees will visit Gangasagar to take holy bath in 2020.
Accusing PM Modi of diving the nation on religious lines, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday (January 13) said that the prime minister is trying to distract the attention of people from real issues.
The Virat Kohli-led Indian team will look to take revenge of their ODI series defeat at the hands of Australia when they head into the opening game of the three-match series against the Aaron Finch-led team at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The shocking incident occurred when the taxi driver was relaxing on a bench at the P. D'Mello Road, near the iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) last evening.
The university has extended the registration deadline for the 2020 Winter Semester to January 15 after the violent incident at the JNU campus. However, students who fail to register until the given time will be charged late fines.
The retail inflation in December jumped to 7.35% as against 5.54% in November, according to government data released on Monday (January 12).
The area was cordoned off by the security forces and a search operation was launched thereafter.
The firings mostly affected executives in the company`s real estate division because the growth in the wholesale model has not been that robust, two of the sources said.
The court also sent an autorickshaw driver Gurumurthy to rigorous imprisonment for seven years in the same case.
Addressing a meeting of opposition leaders, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi said that the government has let loose a reign of oppression, it is spreading hatred and trying to divide people along sectarian lines.
In Pune, workers of NCP and Sambhaji Brigade held a protest against the book for drawing comparisons between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shivaji.
Jamia VC Najma Akhtar said that a decision has also been taken that the administration will also explore the possibility of moving court for the registration of FIR in the December 15, 2019 police brutality in university library case at the earliest.
He achieved the feat during Manchester City's drubbing of Aston Villa in the ongoing competition.
