Breadwinner: French bakers make world’s longest baguette, beating Italy after 5 years

French bakers cooked the world’s longest baguette on Sunday at 140.53 metres (461ft), reclaiming a record for one of the nation’s best-known emblems taken by Italy for five years. The baguette, about 235 times longer than the traditional one, was made in Suresnes in the suburbs of Paris during an event for the French confederation … Read more

Chinese buying set the stage for gold’s latest record run

This week’s gold rush may have been triggered by bets on the US Federal Reserve’s long-anticipated pivot to looser monetary policy, but the foundations for the record rally were laid in China. After months of mostly treading water, the gold market suddenly sprang to life last Friday. Prices breached December’s record on Tuesday and have … Read more

Ranchi Test: India look to put BazBall in a spin: 2-1 up after record Rajkot win, hosts seek to seal series against England in Ranchi Test

The cracks are surfacing. Apparently, on the pitch in Ranchi, there is a longitudinal divide to this. Technically, at one end they are outside the right-hand batsman’s off stump and at the other end, the left-hand batters have no chance. This might well be the case, as the fourth Test plays out with India 2-1 … Read more

Auto dispatches scale new peak as dealers stock up post year-end sales

Automakers dispatched 393,074 units of cars, utility vehicles and vans last month, a 14% increase from a year earlier and the highest on record, as dealers restocked inventories depleted during year-end sales promotions. As per data available with industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the previous record for passenger vehicle sales was 391,811 … Read more

Toyota Kirloskar news: Toyota Kirloskar confident of continuing strong growth in 2024

Toyota Kirloskar Motor on Wednesday said it expects to continue the strong momentum next year after closing 2023 with record sales as rising demand from tier II and III markets is slated to fuel further growth. The company is set for a record year in terms of sales in 2023. It has already clocked a … Read more

Tata Motors – Record Passenger Vehicle Sales in 2023

Tata Motors, India’s third largest passenger vehicle maker, expects next year — both calendar and fiscal — to be the best on record in terms of sales volume for the company’s passenger vehicles business, driven by the new models it plans to launch with electrical and conventional powertrains.In addition to launching the electrified versions of … Read more