World's longest selfie stick: MIT student Armaan may enter Guinness Book

April 12, 2016

Udupi, Apr 11: An attempt was made to enter the Guinness World Record by a student of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) by creating the world's longest selfie stick here on Monday.

selfie Armaan, a student of sixth semester (B.Tech.) of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at MIT, created the longest selfie stick measuring 10.39 metres, which he demonstrated on the MIT grounds here. A selfie of the authorities of the MIT and others was taken on the occasion.

The present Guinness World Record holder for the world's longest stick is Ben Stiller (USA) for his selfie stick which measured 8.56 metres.

Mr. Stiller made this record at the premiere of Zoolander No. 2' in London, U.K., on February 4, 2016. The selfie taken included the stars of Zoolander No. 2' – Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penelope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Justin Theroux and Christine Taylor.

Mr. Armaan had sent an application to the Guinness World Records about two months ago for creating a new record in longest selfie stick. The application was accepted about a month ago. “After that I started working on it. I made around seven to eight trials,” he said. In the beginning, he created the selfie stick using a steel rod. But it was heavy. Then he used aluminium as it was lighter and stronger. “I was successful after using aluminium,” he said.

He practiced the use of the selfie stick for about a week. “If my present achievement is recognised, I will try doing a 12-metre long selfie stick,” he said.

Asked what inspired him to take to up this endeavour, he said, “When I saw Ben Stiller doing it. I thought even I could do it. That's how I started,” he said.

The demonstration of Mr. Armaan's longest selfie stick was photographed and video-graphed to be sent to Guinness World Records in the presence of six witnesses – S.J. Kumaraswamy, Deputy Superintendent of Police, G.K. Prabhu, Director of MIT, B.H.V. Pai, Joint Director, Narayan Shenoy, Associate Director, B.K. Singh, Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and Indrali Jayakar Shetty, General Manager of Badagabettu Credit Cooperative Society Ltd.

Mr. Armaan, son of Mohmed Soorinje and Rehana from Mangaluru, is also a member of the student team Formula Manipal' of MIT, which designs the formula racing car.

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Would have done something better for mankind...not for the selfie freaks.....grow up...we already are bored to see young people like oldmen walking with sticks in public and also smiling to themselves..now more longer...huh

Masha Allah good job keep it up have a good future ....

Selfie King Armaan

Please send one stick to Narendra Modi

selfie freak.

Masha Allah keep it up, may have good future

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ABVP national president accused of harassing woman, urinating at her doorstep

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July 25,2020

Chennai, July 25: A widow living alone in her apartment in Chennai city suburbs has filed a police complaint against ABVP national president Dr Subbiah Shanmugam, accusing him of harassment, including urinating and throwing used surgical masks at her doorstep.

Shockingly, no action has been taken so far by the police, even though the complaint against Dr Shanmugam, who is in government service, was filed on July 11 at the Adambakkam Police Station here by the widow’s relative Balaji Vijayaraghavan.

Dr Shanmugam and the 62-year-old widow were living in the same apartment complex in Nanganallur and an argument broke between them over a parking slot. “He wanted to use our parking lot. We agreed but demanded a nominal charge for using it. He was outraged by our demand and even broke our signboard at the parking lot,” Vijayaraghavan wrote in his complaint.

He also alleged that Dr Shanmugam began harassing her by throwing “pieces of chicken” outside her apartment despite knowing she is a vegetarian. Vijayaraghavan also alleged in his two-page written complaint that the ABVP National President had urinated outside the woman’s apartment gate and had been throwing garbage and used masks at her gate.

The 62-year-old woman has been living alone in her apartment for the last year following her husband’s death. In his complaint, Vijayaraghavan also said the family was “concerned about her safety”, while asking police to take action against Dr Shanmugam, who he says, “has a bad track record in maintaining rapport with neighbours.”

CCTV footage corroborates with the allegations of urinating outside the residence of the widow. However, the ABVP claimed the incident as a “malicious and derogatory propaganda” by the Congress’ student wing of NSUI.

Also Read: Finally FIR registered against ABVP national president for allegedly harassing widow

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Govt to bring back Indians stuck abroad in a phased manner from May 7

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May 4,2020

The government of India today said it will begin evacuating its nationals stuck abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic from May 7 in a phased manner. This facility would be made available on payment basis.

A Standard Operating Protocol has been put in place and the travel would be arranged by aircraft as well as naval ships and will be available on a payment-basis, the government said.

"Medical screening of passengers would be done before taking the flight. Only asymptomatic passengers would be allowed to travel. During the journey, all these passengers would have to follow the protocols, such as the health protocols, issued by the ministry of health and the ministry of civil aviation," it said in a statement.

Specifying the protocols upon entry in India, the government said the returning Indians would be medically screened and will have to be quarantined for 14 days, either in a hospital or in an institutional quarantine on payment-basis, by the respective state government.

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