Mysuru: Mysuru-based yoga enthusiast Badari Narayan Iyengar entered the Assist World Records Book by creating a new world record by staring at the sun without out blinking his eyelids for 27 mins.

Addressing press persons at the Pathrakartara Bhavan recently, Corporator M.V. Ramprasad said that the Assist World Records based in Puducherry had also considered Badri Narayan’s 108 Sirsasana performed at different places between 7 am and  7 pm on June 27, 2015.