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Limca World Records of Indians
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| WR: Mobile Hospital |
| Jeevan Rekha (Lifeline) Express, the first full-fledged hospital on wheels, was flagged off from Mumbai on July 16, 1991.The train has three specially designed air conditioned coaches which house an operation theatre, steriling room and wards apart from accommodation for the mobile team. |
| WR: First Double-Deck Coaches |
| Bombay-Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&CI) introduced double-deck coaches in 1862 with a seating capacity of 120-150 on the lower deck and 70 on the top. |
| WR: Longest Covered Platform |
| Two of the platform at Sealdah station, Calcutta-1,000 ft each in length and over 28 ft in width-have 550 ft long covering sheds over six lines of rail. The station was opened in 1862 and was the first terminal station at Calcutta. |
| WR: Longest Platform |
| The railway platform at Kharagpur in West Bengal is 833 m (2,733 ft) long |
| WR: Largest RRI System |
| Delhi Main (Old Delhi) station was upgraded to handle 11,000 train movements simultaneously since Augest 2000, thanks to the newly installed Route Relay interlocking (RRI) system. The system makes it possible to receive trains from all directions to all platforms |
| WR: Largest Shipbreaking yard |
| Alang Shipbreaking yard in the Bhavnager dist.of Gujarat accounted for 30 lakh tonnes of recycled steel(70% of the world trade) during 1998-99. Alang is specially suitable because of its tidal variations from 2 ft to 41 ft, which allows large ships to be brought right up to the shoreline. |
| WR: Longest human powered boat |
| The longest boats are the snake boats or Chundan Valloms of Kerala used for boat races during the onam festival in August-September every year. Their average length is 30m (98.4 ft). Three boats share the longest individual length of 41.1 m, one of them being the famous Nadumbhagom. |
| WR: First Floating Maritime Museum |
| The steamer River Ganga floating at the Man-of-War jetty in Calcutta was converted to maritime museum and training center of the Calcutta Port Trust in July 1993. |
| WR: Women On Sail |
| Padma Vibhushan Sumati Morarji of Scindia steame Navigation Co. was the First women to head an organissation fo ship owners, the Indian National Steamship Owners association in 1956. |
| WR: Highest airport |
| Leh Airport in Ladakh at a height of 3,256m(10,680 ft) is the highest non-military airport. |
| WR: First all-jet carrier |
| In 1962, Air India became the world's first all-jet carrier when it replaced Super Constellation with a fleet of Boeing 707s. |
| WR: Largest Civilian Evacuation |
| Air-India in association with Indian Airlines airlifted 1,11,711 stranded Indians from Amman to Mumbai by operation 488 flights in 1990. the operation lasted 59 days. |
| WR: Most IATA Certificates |
| Sensei P.M. Farook of Tirur, Kerla has to his credit 19 IATA certificates. The international air Transport association (IATA), founded in 1919, is the trade association of the international airline industry that groups together about 270 airlines world over. |
| WR: First Woman Airbus pilot |
| On May 14, 1987, Durba Banerjee co-piloted an Airbus 300 on the Calcutta-New Delhi-Calcutta sector. |
| WR: First Commercial Women Pilot |
| Prem Mathur (b. August 25, 1924) started flying in 1948 at Allahabad. She got her private pilot's a license in 1951.On June 13,1951 she joined Deccan Airways at Hyderabad and flew DC-3c on their schedule flights. |
| WR: Women pilot With most Flying Hours |
| Capt. Durba banerjee, who started for aviation career flying a Dakota as an air Survey Pilot in 1959, joined Indian airlines in 1966. she retired on nov.30,1988 with 18,500 flying hours. |
| WR: Youngest Commander |
| Capt. Nivedita bhasin got her license when she was 16 and piloted Indian Airlines IC 192 (Boeing 737-200) on the Mumbai-aurangabad-udaipur sector on Jan. 1, 1990. she was also the youngest women glider pilot. |
| WR: First All-Women Crew |
| Capt. Saudamini Deshmukh, Co-pilot Nivedita Bhasin and two air hostesses created history when when they flew Indian Airlines IC 258 (Boeing 737-200) from silchar to Calcutta on Jan. 15, 1986.On sept. 16, 1989,they also piloted IC 169 jet flight (Boeing 737-200) on the Mumbai-Goa sector with 126 passengers. |
| WR: Hijacked most times |
| Devinder kumar Mehta, a flight purser with Indian Airlines, was hijacked thrice on three IA flights, the first time being in 1982. He Was also on a plane that crash-landed in 1965. |
| WR: Worst Mid-Air Crash |
| At 6:41 p.m. on Nov.12,1996, an IL-76 of the Kazhakistan Airlines and a Boeing 747 of Saudi collided mid-air at 14,000 ft above kheri sanwal village, Bhivani dist, Haryana. The Kazhak cargo liner with 29 passengers and a crew of 10 was coming in to Delhi while the saudi Airlines with 289 passengers and a crew of 23 had just taken off from Delhi. |
| WR: Largest Corbelled Cornice Dome |
| Gol Gumbaz, built in 1659 in the tomb complex of the Adil Shah Sultans at bijapur, Karnataka has a dome that measures 42m (137 ft) in diameter. its corbelled cornice (an ornamental projection crowing a building) projects over 3 m (9.8 ft) outwards. |
| WR: Oldest Observatory |
| Jantar mantar at Delhi was constructed by a huge sundial. the other structure are ment for measuring the positions of stars, altitudes and azimuths and calculating eclipses. The instruments are made of stone and lime. |
| WR: Larget Bathing Complex |
| The bathing complex at Shirdi, Nasik in Maharashtra built and maintained by sulbah International for the Shirdi Saibaba Trust has provision of 120 toilets, 108 bathing cubicles, 28 special toilets, six dressing rooms, and rows of urinals and can serve 30,000 persons a day. |
| WR: Highest Conference Hall |
| Indian Army's conference hall on the border at Nathula near Gangtok is built at a height of 14,600 ft (4,450 m). Maj. Gen. P.P.S. Bindra and 104 engineers of the army worked for seven months to complete the task in May 1998 |
| WR: oldest Children's slide |
| The rock-cut children's slide at Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu is considered the oldest children's slide in the world. |
| WR: Largest dish antenna |
| The telescope dish antenna at the Tata institute of Fundamental Research Center, Pune is 45 m high and has a diameter of 45 m. |
| WR: Tallest puja Lamp |
| Dr Avinash Banait, his wife Jayshree and sons Yash and Jeryll designed, built and installed a 'Samai',a golden puja lamp made of fiberglass in front of a statue of Lord Krishna at their lawns.The lamp is 48 high and 12 ft base diameter is lit using edible oil and thick cotton wicks. |
| WR: Largest Trophy |
| The gold-plated silver trophy with the All India Digamber jain Samaj, Jaipur is 11 ft high, 36 in wide and weighs over 135 kg of which 93 kg is silver. Designed and executed by Amit Paudwal, the trophy is also studded with 20,000 carats of precious stones. |
| WR: Longest Newspaper |
| A 650 m long wall paper, written by 2,165 children of 16 states in ten languages was displayed at the 14th New Delhi Book Fair, Pragati Maidan from Feb.5-13-2000. Organised by the national Center for Children's Literature (NCCL). |
| WR: First Magazine On CD-ROM, |
| a monthly multimedia electronic magazine was conceived and launched. Priced at Rs100, this CD-zine sold from bookstand targets the whole family and is an interactive mix of text, video and audio. |
| WR: First Internet Radio |
| www.radioofindia.com is a multichannel, multilingual 24-hour internet radio catering to the Asian-Indian community. |
| WR: Station at the highest altitude |
| The Leh (Ladakh) station of AIR at an altitude of 3,231 m above sea level went on air on June 25, 1971 |
| WR: Space technology for social education |
| On August 1, 1975, DD launched a one-year Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) involving 2,330 villages of economically backward states for which satellite ATS-6 was |
| WR: Largest Postal Network |
| India has 1,54,149 post offices of which 89% are in the rural areas serving 6,04,341 villages in the country. Letters are collected from 5,64,701 letter boxes, processed by a network of 573 Railway mail service (RMS). |
| WR: Highest Post Office |
| Hikkim branch post office in Lahaul and Sprite district, Himachal Pradesh is at an approximate height of 15,000 feet and was opened of nov.5,1983 |
| WR: Earliest Official Stamp |
| Indian issued stamps in 1866 and the State of Hyderabad in 1873. These stamps had service, official or sarkari over stamped. |
| WR: First Halftone Stamps |
| The kishangarh series of 1913 was produced entirely in halftone. |
| WR: Coloured Alike |
| All denomination of the 1866-77 issues of Jammu & Kashmir and the issues of Combined States (1878-94_) were all hand stamped in watercolor on various kinds of paper manufactured locally |
| WR: Multilingual Inscriptions |
| Between 1871 and 1948 the majority of stamps issued by the princely State of Hyderabad were inscribed in four different scripts-English, Marathi, Telgu and Urdu. |
| WR: Overprints For Other Use |
| In 1866, stamps were overprinted service for official correspondence In the same year revenue stamps were overprinted postage for postal use. |
| WR: Three Country Stamps |
| Stamps portraying Emperor Haile Selassie in his coronation robes which appeared in Ethiopia in 1942 were lithographed at the Security Press, Nashik, and the values added by letter press at Khartoum, Sudan. |
| WR: Most Stamps Honouring An Indian |
| The maximum number of stamps honouring an indian are of Mahatma Gandhi. More than 80 stamps of Gandhiji have been issued from 81 countries, including the Republic of South Africa. |
| WR: First Airmail/Airmail Stamps |
| L. Pecquet flying a Humber-Sommer biplane carried 6,500 letters and postcards from Allahabad to Naini on Feb.18,1911. India was the first country to issue a special set of airmail stamps on Oct. 22,1929. |
| WR: Highest ISD Booth |
| The ISD booth at the Siachen base camp at a height of 18,000 ft was set up by the Army's Crop of Signals n Oct.1997. |
| WR:Longest Domain Name |
| www.halloffameofinternationalincredibleuniquerecordssoutof36thousand.com is a records site owned by Guinness Rishi which keeps information about the longest, shortest, tallest,smallest,latest,oldest,busiest and brightest. |
| WR: Largest School |
| The City Montessori School (CMS) Lucknow, founded in 1959 by Jagdish Gandhi and Bharti Gandhi, M.Ed. (Child psychologist) with five students on roll is now the world's largest private school in a single city. |
| WR:Youngest Matriculate |
| Soupati Divya Tej of Guntur, born on June 8, 1990 secured an aggregate of 323 marks in SSC public exams held in March 1999 at the age of nine years two days. |
| WR:Youngest Post Graduate |
| Born on Sept. 9, 1987 Tathagat Avatar Tulsi of Bihar passed the B.Sc.examnation with honours in Physics from science College, Patna at 11 years, 2 months to go on to pass M.Sc. on Nov. 28, 1999 at the age of 12 years, 2 months. |
| WR: First Officer On Husband's Death |
| Rashmi Gautam, whose husband was killed on Operation Rakshak was commissioned into the Army after her husband was killed in action. |
| WR: Most Colours Presented In A Day |
| On Feb. 24, 1988 President R. Venkataraman presented 24 colours to 23 mechanised battalions and their parent unit, the Mechanised Infantry Regimental Center (MIRC). |
| WR: Highest Tank Battle |
| On Nov. 1, 1984, an Indian bridge group supported by 7 Cavalry (Stuart tanks) drove out a group of invading Pakistani battalions and Azad kashmir tribal groups at Zoji La |
| WR: Highest Inhabited post |
| Bana Post (earlier quid post) at Siachen, 20,912 ft above mean sea level is named after Nb.Sub.Bana Singh of 8 J&K Light Infantry. |
| WR: Flying Cat |
| The Army's Alouette Artouste III B or Cheetah helicopters regularly fly to altitude ranging from 20,000 to 23,000 ft, a record unparalleled by helicopters of this class. |
| WR: Largest Accessory Store |
| Navyug Military and General Stores at Bangalore is the largest wholesale and retail military accessory store. Apart from being manufacturers, they are suppliers, contractors, traders, advisors, exporters and importers in virtually every item that the armed forces require. |
| WR: Largest mass band |
| On Dec. 16,1947,4,459 interservice musicians formed a mass band as part of 50-minute Vijay Diwas show. |
| WR:Highest Battleground |
| Translated, Siachen means 'rose garden', a wildly romantic name given to the 76.8 km river of ice abutted by knife-edged,fluted,serrated ridge lines exceeding 7,100 m at some places. It is the codest battle field with posts at altitudes varying from 15,000 to 21,000 ft. |
| WR: Highest Dive |
| Naval divers took the plunge at Ladakh's Pangong Tso Lake (14,200') in July 1988. |
| WR:Longest Tow |
| When Mauritian Coast Guard vessel Vigilante needed repairs on its shafting systems within a year of commissioning, CGS Sarang towed her for 14 days over 2,650 nautical miles to Naval Dockyard, Mumbai. It was repaired in a record four months. |
| WR: High Altitude Landing |
| Sqn. Ldr.C.S.Raje (later Air Mshl.) was the first to land and take off from the makeshift airstrip at Daulatabeg Oldi. He landed with 32 fully equipped jawans at Daulatbeg Oldi(17,000 ft), the highest airstrip in the world, on July 22, 1962 in aC-119 Packet aircraft. |
| WR: Fastest Fighter Aircraft In Service |
| The mig-25 is a twin -tailed air superiority and high altitude reconnaissance aircraft powered with two Tumansky turbojects delivering a maximum of 27,170 pounds thrust. It can fl a maximum speed of 1,900 mph (3,000 kmph) and reach altitude of 80,000 ft. It has an initial climb rate of 41,000 ft/min. |
| WR: Heaviest Helicopter |
| The MI-26 is a cross between a heavy transport aircraft and a versatile helicopter The twin-engine MI-26 with a payload of 20 tonnes carries 82 fully-equipped, combat-ready troops. |
| WR: First Medical Symposium |
| Sage Bharadwaja, founder of the Indian system of medicine Ayurveda, presided over the symposium om medicinal plants in relation to diseases in 7 b.c. in the Himalayan region. |
| WR: Most Intense Leprosy Campaign |
| BBC World Service Trust, the NGO arm of the BBC, launched a one million pound, week-long ad campaign on Jan. 30, 2000. Doordarshan and AIR aired 65 TV and radio advertising sports to spread the message that the disease was curable and treatment free. |
| WR: Earliest List Of Geometry Rules |
| The four Sulvasutras-Baudhayana, Apastamba, Katyayana and manavadated c 6 b.c., describe the geomatric alter constructions and give some Pythagorean triangles. The Baudhayana indicates knowledge of the Theorem of Pythagoras. |