Sachin Tendulkar listed as Casual Labourer in Goa government records

As per a report:

Sachin Tendulkar may have won the Bharat Ratna, but according to the Goa government's records, he and his family are is a "casual labourers" and beneficiaries of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), says a non-governmental organisation. Read full story here at..........Sachin Tendulkar listed as Casual Labourer in goa government records

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Weird record holders of India

Below are some of the Indian record holders for some of their weird acts:

1) Radhakant Bajpai holds a record for growing his ear hair more than five inches long.

2) Vadivelu Karunakaren holds a record for skipping 10 miles in 58 minutes.

3) Arvind Morarbhai Pandya holds a record for running 940 miles backward in 26 days and seven hours.

4) 'Orissa man claims a record for cracking open 72 coconuts by elbow!' as per the Hindustan Times, a leading newspaper. 'Uttar Pradesh boy can write on mustard seeds!' said a headline.

5) As per the Times of India: 'A Man looks to set world record pulling vehicles with mustache.'

6) Guinness Rishi _ yes, his name is Guinness & he holds a record for downing a bottle of ketchup in 39 seconds. Rishi changed his first name from Har Parkash to Guinness after earning a record for being part of a team that kept a motor scooter in motion for 1,001 hours. To claim the record for oldest adoptee, he adopted his 61-year-old brother-in-law. (He's going to beat that one again now that he's 'working with a 90-year-old.') He built the world's tallest sugar cube tower at 64 inches. Rishi is so passionate about Guinness that he wrote in his will _ the longest will in the world, of course _ that he wants his record books used as the kindling at his cremation. (His wife, Bimla, claims to have the record for shortest will in the world: 'All to son.')

7) In June, a doctor couple in southern India boasted that their 15-year-old son had tried to become the world's youngest surgeon by delivering a baby by Caesarean section _ a procedure they proudly filmed.

8) Last year, a 4-year-old boy attempted to run 43 miles to earn a spot in a local record book. Doctors stopped the child after 40 miles and found him to be undernourished and anemic. His coach has been arrested and charged with torturing the child.

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Going up the Hill '101' times in 20 hours

How many times you can climb a 70-metre hill in a day? One, two, three.......Here is a 25-year-old man from Pune in Maharashtra state of India, who driven by an unusual liking for performing difficult feats scaled the 70-metre high Parvati hill for an astonishing 101 times, within a span of 20 hours.

The Parvati hill, located in the centre of the city at a height of 2,100 feet above sea level, is home to a heritage structure temple built during the erstwhile Peshwa dynasty. Through this physically enduring feat, Girish is trying to be recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records , besides the Limca Book of World Records ................Read more........Up the hill 101 times in 20 hours

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Lawyer applies Mehndi / Heena for non-stop 12 hours

In India in a bid to enter the "Limca Book of Records", people are doing all sort of things, some sing incessantly for "n" numbers of hrs, while some do other feats. But here is a woman lawyer who tried to make a record by applying Mehndi / Heena to 229 hands non-stop in 12 hours.

The 35-year-old Mona Raju from Salem in Tamil Nadu state of India who is practicing in the city courts, undertook the exercise from 7.30 am yesterday in the presence of a large gathering at the Gujarati Samaj premises.

Salem Mayor Rekha Priyadarshini was among the women who offered their hands for applying mehndi. The Mayor got it done only on one hand.

Arthi of Limca Book of Records, who was present on the occasion, said Mona in fact wanted to go for a 24-hour long effort but she was advised to limit it to 12 hours as the existing record was 80 hands in six hours only.

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Couple enjoying marital bliss for 84 years set to enter Guinness Book of Records

Here is one couple from Kot Patiala village of Una district in Himachal Pradesh state of India, who is enjoying marital bliss for 84 years & could enter the Guinness Book of Records as the longest surviving married couple in the world.

As per Bishambhar Rana, the son of 103 year-old Pyara Singh and 101 year-old Hansa Devi, he had sent the relevant details of his parents to the record keeper's office last month for entering their name as the longest surviving married couple.

"Accepting the application, they have sent me a form in this regard," he said. After verifying the facts, Guinness would add the couple in their record list, he claimed.

Born on January 5, 1904, Singh, an army pensioner for the past 65 years, married Hansa on May 23, 1924 in Kot Patiala village of Una district in Himachal Pradesh.

The elderly couple has three sons and two daughters.

Singh, who joined the army in 1930, fought in the Second World War as part of the British Indian Army.

And the secret of the couple's long life -- disciplined living, controlled diet and honesty, revealed Singh.

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