Guinness Book of World Records

After 13 years of training without sponsors or support, 20-year-old Praveen Gupta broke a Guinness World Record. Now, just one jump away from breaking the world’s fastest record, he aims to spotlight India on the global stage.

Gopal Dutt quit his lucrative career in civil engineering and became an organic farmer in 2015. But little did he realise his farming techniques would bag him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records

Innovation is a term which is rarely associated with vegetables, fruits or spices. Interestingly, there are scores of unlettered farmers who have been ingenious enough to develop crop varieties, which besides being high-yielding, are pest-resistant and can be grown in a non-traditional environment.

Besides Guinness, Sudheesh Guruvayoor has set quite a few records thanks to his green thumb.

“The full marathon was difficult, and I wouldn’t be doing justice if I said it wasn’t.”

In the armed forces, names are a privilege reserved for horses and are rarely given to mules. But Pedongi was no ordinary mule.

Sushil Reddy entered the Guinness Books of World Records when he completed the "longest journey on a motorised bicycle", but that's not what he wants to focus on.

Shristi Sharma, a 12-year-old girl from Nagpur's Centre Point School, has created history by limbo skating on ice and entering the Limca Book of World Records.

Flowers that never wilt and leaves and grass that don’t dry up, can only be found in a dimly lit greenhouse in the heart of Ooty. This evergreen artificial plant kingdom is the only one of its kind in the world. All the plants here are fabricated with thread and look so natural that they rival real ones in beauty.

2015 was a great year for India with respect to entry in the Guinness world records, more commonly known by their earlier avatar The Guinness Book of World Records. Here's a look at some of the records.