Thursday, February 6, 2014

Winners of Star Guild Awards 2014

The 9th Renault Star Guild Awards was held at the NSCI stadium in Worli, Mumbai. One of the biggest awards in Bollywood was hosted by Salman Khan.
Check out the full and complete list of winners at the Star Guild Awards 2014:-
  • Best Actress Award Deepika Padukone for Chennai Express
  • Best Actor Award: Farhan Akhtar for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
  • Best Supporting Actress: Divya Dutta
  • Entertainer Award For The Year Shahrukh Khan
  • Most Promising Debut Award Female Vaani for Shuddh Desi Romance
  • Most Promising Debut Award Male Sushant Singh Rajput for Kai Po Che
  • Jodi Of the Year Award Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor
  • Best Choreography Award Remo D’souza for Badtameez Dil and Balam Pichkari for YJHD
  • Hall of Fame Award Chennai Express, Ram Leela, Race 2, Grand Masti, Aashiqui 2
  • Best Screenplay Prasoon Joshi for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
  • Best Story Prasoon Joshi for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
  • Best Special Effects Award Red Chillies for Krrish 3
  • Lifetime Achievement Award Salman Khan and Manoj Kumar give it to Salim Khan
  • Lifetime Achievement Award Tanuja Mukherjee
  • Best Playback Singer (Male) Arijit Singh for ‘Tum Hi Ho’
  • Best Playback Singer (Female) Bhoomi Trivedi for ‘Ram Chahe Leela’
  • Yash Chopra Award (Most Promising Director) Ritesh Batra for The Lunchbox
  • Best Actor In Comedy Arshad Warsi for Jolly LLB
  • Best Costume Design Maxima Basu & Anju Modi for Ram Leela
  • Best Sound Mixing award Biswadeep Chatterjee for Madras Cafe
  • Best Cinematography Binod Pradhan in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
  • Best Editing award Chandrashekhar Prajapati for Madras Cafe
  • Best Special Effects Red Chillies for Krrish 3
  • Best Sound Mixing Biswadeep Chatterjee for Madras Cafe
  • Best Art Direction award Wasir Khan for Ram Leela
Television Awards:
  • Best Comedy Series Comedy Nights with Kapil
  • Best ongoing drama series Balika Vadhu
  • Best Director Santaram Verma for the Serial Jodhaa Akbar
  • Best Actress Award (Serial) Ankita Lokhande for Pavitra Rishta and Drashti Dhami for Madhubala Ek Ishq Ek Junoon

Critics’ Choice Movie Awards 2014

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the winners for the 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.
The 19th annual Critics’ choice Movie Award feted some of the best films and acting talents this year:-
Best Picture: 12 Year A Slave
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Supporting Actor: Jarad Leto, Dollas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years A Slave
Best Adapted Screenplay:  12 years A Slave
Best Original Screenplay: Her
Best Young Actor/Actress: Adele Exarchopoules, Blue Is The Warmest Color
Best Acting Ensemble: American Hustle
Best Action film: Lone Survivor
Best Actor in an Action film: Mark Wahlberg, Lone Survivor
Best Actress in an Action film: Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Best Comedy: American Hustle
Best Actor in a Comedy: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actress in a Comedy: Amy Adams, American Hustle
Best Sci-Fi Horror film: Gravity
Best Art Direction: The Great Gatsby
Best Cinematography: Gravity
Best Costume Design: The Great Gatsby
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: American Huslte
Best Original Score: Gravity
Best Original Song: Let It Go from Frozen
Best Animated Feature: Frozen
Best Foreign Language Film: Blue Is The Warmest Color

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

52 MOST UNIQUE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS

The Guinness Book of Records is the biggest-selling copyrighted book of all time, according to Publisher, Young, with 92 million books sold since 1955. But when it was first imagined, it wasn't even going to be for sale. 
The book was the brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery in Ireland. On November 10, 1951, he got into an argument while hunting with friends out in southeastern Ireland over which was the fastest game bird. 
Sir Hugh Beaver thought that hundreds of other such things were apparently being discussed and a book of records could resolve these differences. 




Joel Waul had created the humongous ball in his driveway using 300,000 bands of different colours and sizes. (Guinness World Records) 







The largest known land gastropod is the African giant snail achatina achatina, the largest recorded specimen of which measured 39.3cm (15.5in) from snout to tail when fully extended, with a shell length of 27.3cm (10.75in) and weighed exactly 900g (2lb) 











1,253 Smurfs gathered in the high street in the town of Castleblayney in County Monaghan, Ireland on July 18, 2008. (Guinness World Records) 







The fastest 100m hurdles wearing swim fins is 19.278 seconds and was acheived by Veronica Torr (New Zealand) on the set of New Zealand Smashes Guinness World Records at the Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland. 
Photograph: John Wright/Guinness World Records 







The largest pocket knife was designed by Telmo Cadavez and hand made by Virgilio, Raul and Manuel Pires of Portugal. 
The knife is 3.9m long when open and weighs 122kg. 







The world's heaviest lemon weighed 5.265 kg (11 lb 9.7 oz) on January 8, 2003 and was grown by Aharon Shemoel (Israel) on his farm in Kefar Zeitim, Israel. 







Scott Murphy recently set a Guinness World Record for The Tightest Circumference to Roll a 12 Inch Aluminum Frying Pan by Hand in 30 Seconds - 6.87 inches. 
Scott Murphy accomplished this on July 30th, 2007 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. 







In Germany, Anita Schwarz set a new record for carrying the most steins of lager over 40m. 
She staggered across the finishing line holding 19 glasses. 







Sam Wakeling holds the current Guinness World Record for unicycle distance in 24 hours: 281.85 miles (453.6km) 





10 

A man from Switzerland with 10,000 ‘Do Not Disturb’ hotel room door signs. 





11 

On a whim back in 1979, Lee Redmond decided to stop filing her nails. She intended to cut them off once they started twisting, but her plans changed. 
In 2002 she entered the Guinness World Records book for the world's longest fingernails on a female pair of hands. On february 11th, 2009 Lee Redmond shocked the world with the loss of her fingernails in a car crash. 
But on September 2, 2009 Guinness World Records reported some great news about mrs.
Redmond (who is doing fine and found 'there is more to life than nails'!! ), for they announced to honour Lee Redmond' s 'fingernail life-work' in the 2010 'The Book of the Decade' 
This Mail Was posted In alpha-Q Group- featured with a striking photograph of Lee pictured alongside fellow American Melvin Booth, the male owner of the longest finger nails (9.05-m-long/ 29ft 8in), which was taken just a few months prior to her accident. 





12 

World’s record for t-shirts worn at the same time. 227 by Jef Van Dijck of Belgium. 





13 

Garry Turner, of Caistor, Lincolnshire, England, stretched the skin of his stomach to a distended length of 15.8 cm (6.25 in) on the set of Guinness World Records: Primetime in Los Angeles, California, USA, on October 29, 1999. 





14 

Coke Mentos Guiness world record With 1,911 explosions in Riga, Latvia. 





15 

The heaviest Jicama weighed 21 kg (46 lb 4.8 oz) and was grown by Leo Sutisna (Indonesia) in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, and weighed on 25 January 2008. 





16 

35,310 Lego Star Wars Clone Troopers in the UK. 





17 

Helmut Wirz from Germany became the oldest person to bungee jump in August 2008. 
He was a ripe 83 years old when he was dropped in Duisburg, Germany, on the 9th of August 2008. 





18 

A Maine man and his collection of 1,094 clocks. 





19 

Wimm Hoff from Netherlands spent 1 hour 42 minutes and 22 seconds covered in snow. 





20 

The largest chalk pavement art measured 90,000 square feet, and was created by 5,678 children from schools in Alameda, California, USA, for the 
Kids' Chalk Art Project between May 27 - June 7, 2008. 





21 

The world's fastest wheelie. York, UK. July 11, 2006. 108 mph (173,81 km/h) 





22 

The longest skis are 534 m (1,751 ft 11 in) long and were worn by 1,043 skiers in an event organized by Danske Bank on Drottninggatan in Örebro, Sweden, on 13 September 2008. 





23 

# The oldest table tennis player is Dorothy de Low (Australia, b. 5 October 1910) who was 97 yr 232 days when she represented Australia at the XIV World Veterans Table Tennis Championships, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 25 May 2008. 





24 

A steel-made snake boat entered the Guinness Book of World Records here for recently carrying 141 persons and being the longest ever made boat of its kind. 





25 

The fastest ride on a skateboard - Douglas da Silva from Brazil with amazing 70.2 mph (113 km/h). 





26 

Thousands descended on Guildhall Square in Derry City, Northern Ireland, on September 9, 2007, to help break the world record for the Largest gathering of Santa Clauses. 
A total of 12,965 people dressed up as Santa or Santa’s helper to smash the previous record of 3,921, which was set during the Santa Dash event in Liverpool City Centre on 





27 

PAV1 Badger was acknowledged as the "World&# 39;s Smallest Tank" in the "2010 Guinness Book of World Records." 





28 

In Hungary burning person was dragged by a galopping horse for 0.29 miles (0.47 km). 





29 

Tommy Pastemante from the USA sets the fastest Speed on a Modified Lawnmower (61 mph) 





30 

The fastest time to run 100m on all fours is 18. 58 seconds and was set by Kenichi Ito (Japan). 





31 

The longest distance on a bicycle in 24 hours without the legs touching the ground - 553.15 miles (890.2 km) 





32 

Surrey resident Sarwan Singh achieved a feat, which every Sikh is going to be proud of. He set a new Guinness Book of World Record by having the longest beard. 
Singh’s beard was measured at 2.36 meters or 7.7 3/4 ft, at a jam packed, Akal Academy in Surrey BC, on November 11, 2008. 





33 

This man broke 80 eggs in one minute with his forhead. 





34 

The longest ears on a dog measured 34.9 cm (13.75 in) and 34.2 cm (13.5 in) for the right and left ears, respectively, on September 29, 2004. 
They belong to Tigger, This Mail Was posted In alpha-Q Group. a bloodhound, who is owned by Bryan and Christina Flessner of St Joseph, Illinois, USA. 





35 

Anthony Victor (India) has hair sprouting from the centre of his outer ears (middle of the pinna) that measures 18.1 cm (7.12 in) at its longest point. 





36 

The Space Cowboy (real name: Chayne Hultgren), Lo Show Dei Record performer, set a world record of the longest distance pulling 400 kg by fishhooks in his eye sockets in Milan on April, 25, 2009 





37 

The record for the heaviest vehicle pulled over a level 100ft (30.48m) course weighed 57,243kg (126,200lb) and was set by the Rev Kevin Fast, from Canada 





38 

The largest commercially available hamburger is 74.75 kg (164.8 lbs) and is available for US$399 (£271.55) on the menu at Mallie's Sports Grill Bar in Southgate, Michigan, USA, as of 29 August 2008. 





39 

Victor "Larry" and Gabriel "Danny" Ramos Gomez (both Mexico) are two of a family of 19 that span five generations all suffering from the rare condition called Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis, characterized by excessive facial and torso hair. 
The women are covered with a light to medium coat of hair while the men of the family have thick hair on approximately 98% of their body apart from their hands and feet. 





40 

Turkish Man Squirts Milk From Eye 9.2 Feet 





41 

Mike Howard (Mike Howard) from Britain walked the beam between two balloons at an altitude of 6522 m. near the city Yovil, County Somersetshir, UK, September 1, 2004 





42 

The heaviest apple was found in Japan - 1,849 kg. 





43 

On July 7, 2006 the smallest of the living horses was Tambelina from St. Louis, Missouri, miniature mare, whose growth was 44.5 





44 

Bigfoot #5 
First monster truck solely designed to use 10' tall tires - 1986 
Guinness Book of Records - World's biggest pickup truck - 2002 





45 

The shortest known mobile living adult is He Pingping, who was measured by a team of doctors in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, and found to be 74.61cm (2ft 5.37in) 
36-year-old Svetlana Pankratova from Russia has the longest legs in the world. Although not the tallest woman in the world, Pankratova is 6.43 feet tall and her legs measure 4.33 feet. 





46 

Thousands of Michael Jackson’s Mexican fans have won the world record for most people to dance to the song “Thriller” simultaneously in one place. 
This Mail Was posted In alpha-Q Group. Jamie Panas of Guinness World Records says that 13,597 people performed the dance routine on Aug. 29, which would have been Jackson’s 51st birthday. 





47 

Kim Goodman (USA) can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 12 mm (0.47 in) beyond her eye sockets. Her eyes were measured in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 2, 2007. 





48 

The largest pie fight 





49 

The world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen from Turkey, poses for photographers next to school children at an event in London to promote the Guinness World Records 2010 book. 
Kosen, who is 2m 46.5cm (8ft 1in) tall, also claims the record for the largest hands and largest feet 





50 

The tallest dog living is Gibson, a harlequin great Dane, who measured 107 cm (42.2 in) tall on August 31, 2004 and is owned by Sandy Hall of Grass Valley, California, USA. 





51 

Italy's Vittorio Innocente has set a new world record in underwater cycling, pedalling his specially adapted bike to a depth of 66.5 metres (218.2 ft) in the sea near Genoa. 





52 

The most tattooed senior citizen is Isobel Varley, from the UK, who covered 93% of her body with tattooes. 

Monday, February 3, 2014

Winner of Sahitya Academy Awards 2013

Sahitya academy announced the list of winner of sahitya academy award on 18 December 2013 ,This year Sahitya Academy Awards 2013 was dominated by Poet and travelogue. Below is the details of winner and their category:
Awards (category-wise):
For Poems:
  • Javed Akhtar (Urdu)
  • Subodh Sarkar (Bengali)
  • Anil Boro (Bodo)
  • Sitaram Sapolia (Dogri)
  • Ambika Dutt (Rajasthani)
  • Radhakant Thakur (Sanskrit),
  • Arjun Charan Hembram (Santali)
  • Namdev Tarachandani (Sindhi)
For Essays:
  • C.N. Ramachandran (Kannada)
  • Tukaram Rama Shet (Konkani)
  • Satish Kalasekar (Marathi)
  • Katyayani Vidmahe (Telugu)
For Novels:
  • Mridula Garg for ‘Miljul Man’ (Hindi)
  • Manmohan for ‘Nirvaan’ (Punjabi)
  • R.N. Joe D’ Cruz for ‘Korkai’ (Tamil)
For Short stories:
  • Mohi-ud-din Reshi for ‘Aina Aatas’ (Kashmiri)
  • Temsula Ao for ‘Laburnum For My Head’ (English)
For Travelogues:
  • Makhonmani Mongsaba (Manipuri)
  • Man Bahadur Pradhan (Nepali)
For Play:
  • Bijoy Misra for ‘Banaprastha’ (Odia)
For Autobiography:
  • Malayalam writer M N Paloor for ‘Kathayillathavante Katha’.
For Memoirs:
  • Sureshwar Jha for his memoirs ‘Sangharsh Aa Sehanta’ (Maithili)
About:
  • Sahitya Akademi Awards are one of the top and most prestigious literary honors of India.
  • Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, distribute the prizes annually to writers of outstanding works in the 24 major Indian languages.
  • Its purpose is to honour and promote excellence in Indian writing concurrently welcoming new trends.
  • The Award, established in 1954, is in the form of a casket containing an engraved copper-plaque, a shawl and a cheque of 100000 rupees.
  • Books, in order to be eligible for awards, must be first published during the three years immediately preceding the year of Awards.