SOLAR-POWERED PLANE TO FLY AROUND THE WORLD IN 2015

WASHINGTON: The two Swiss pilots who flew a solar-powered plane on a record-setting coast-to-coast flight across the United States last summer have revealed that they will use their next-generation solar plane in 2015 to circumnavigate the globe. Pilots Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard are slated to reveal a new solar-powered airplane, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, in a ceremony on April 9. The event will be webcast live on the Solar Impulse website, according to Mashable. ANI LAHORE: Just days after Pakistan’s Punjab government claimed to have set 32 world records, the Guinness World Records has said the judges who observed the record breaking event were not part of its team.

In the recently concluded Punjab Youth Festival 2014, the Shahbaz Sharif government claimed to have made 32 new world records.

During the festival, the government had given wide publicity to Anatonela Maria Oreja from Spain and Danial from England, who were promoted as the ‘representatives of the Guinness Book of World Record’. However, the management of the Guinness World Records has denied that it had entered into agreement with Pakistan’s Punjab government to partner in the Youth Festival and to send its representatives.

Amarilis Whitty, public relations director Guinness World Records, said in an email: “I would like to confirm that we have not partnered with the Sports Board Punjab and we do not have representatives of the names you mention below. Those people are not associated to GWR. PTI