Author: ABR Team

Axis Bank Ltd., Maharashtra, India, set a record for the ‘Maximum Number Tourist Locations cleaned over a Week’ across India in collaboration with 24 NGOs. Under the Clean-A-Thon campaign from June 5, 2024 to June 12, 2024, a total of 23 different tourist locations including Mahim Beach (Mumbai), Calangute Beach (Goa), Durgam Cheruvu (Hyderabad), Malpe Beach (Udipi), Sultan Batheri (Mangalore), Kailashgiri Hill (Vizag), Mall Road (Shimla), Puri Beach (Puri), Qutib Minar (Delhi), Ghats (Varanasi), Japanese Garden (Nagpur), Nandi Hills (Bangalore), Cherai Beach (Ernakulam) and some others were cleaned  wherein 4,649 volunteers participated as confirmed on July 11, 2024.

Anu Kumaresan, Directress of Samudrika Makeup Studio & Academy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, set the record for the ‘Maximum People Simultaneously Doing Eye Makeup in a Hybrid Mode’ at Cinnamon Lakeside, Colombo. A total of 257 people (42 online) applied different kinds of eye makeup in 18 minutes simultaneously in six different countries—the UK, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Qatar, India, and Sri Lanka—using both online and offline methods, as confirmed on July 21, 2024.

V.  Mirthveera (born on August 4, 2016) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for being the fastest to recall the maximum number of Mathematical formulas. He recalled 40 Mathematical formulas in 1 minute, 44 seconds and 43 milliseconds, at the age of 7 years, 5 months and 23 days, as confirmed on February 2, 2024.

Acharya Dr. Nilima Deshpande, founder of Ishavasya Gurukulam in Pune, Maharashtra, India, set the record for the ‘Longest Continuous Kathak Dance Relay’. A total of 24 participants aged from 13 to 58 performed a non-stop dance relay for 24 hours featuring 240 Abhang/Bhaktigeet dedicated to Lord Vitthal under her guidance. This uninterrupted relay of devotional Kathak performances, rooted in the Bhakti tradition, took place on Ashadhi Ekadashi on July 16, 2024 at midnight 12:00 am and ended on July 17, 2024 at midnight 12:00 am, at Shree Sant Seva Sangh Sadhana Kendra, Umbare, Bhor, Pune, when the Vitthal Wari reached…

Aarya S. Gadiya (born on June 17, 2020) of Karnataka, India, set a record for deadlifting the maximum weight. She lifted 30 kg weight (5 kg plates on both sides of a 20 kg barbell) in the deadlift category for 3 seconds, at the age of 4 years and 7 days, as confirmed on June 27, 2024.

Gohil Mahavirsinh Vijaysinh (born on June 20, 1997) of Gujarat, India, set a record for being the fastest to swim one lap underwater in one breath with hands and feet tied. He covered one lap of a swimming pool, measuring 22.4 metres in length (73.49 feet), in 40 seconds while swimming underwater in one breath with hands and feet tied, as confirmed on June 17, 2024.

Ayaan Jain (born on July 10, 2019) of Punjab, India, set a record for being the fastest to verbally answer 50 single and double-digit addition sums. He verbally answered 50 single and double-digit addition sums in 5 minutes and 28 seconds, using the Abacus technique, at the age of 4 years, 11 months and 8 days, as confirmed on June 18, 2024.

Smit Choudhary (born on February 2, 2017) of Madhya Pradesh, India, set a record for using the maximum number of 3 x 3 Rubik’s Cubes to make a mosaic art portrait of Lord Parshuram. He used 360 Rubik’s Cubes to make a large mosaic art portrait of Lord Parshuram (measuring 45 inches x 40 inches), at the age of 7 years, 3 months and 15 days, as confirmed on June 13, 2024.

Kavir Raksha Shisav (born on April 28, 2021) of Maharashtra, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for riding a bicycle without support wheels, and covering a distance of 1.66 km in 6 minutes and 48 seconds, at the age of 2 years and 11 months, as confirmed on May 29, 2024.

MD Nasim Raza Khan (born on July 24, 1987) of Uttar Pradesh, India, set a record for having the oldest pre-independence central legislative assembly Urdu voter list. He has in his possession a 118-year-old central legislative assembly Urdu voter list (Tehsil – Zamania, District – Ghazipur) on paper (measuring 50.5 cm in length x 33 cm in width) pertaining to the years 1906-07 AD to 1945, as confirmed on May 20, 2024.