I re-read the news item again, and unless I missed something, I now find it (blame my weak memory!) rather odd that: - state-owned Nepal TV made the grand declaration about this achievement, and - there is NO record of this feat on - http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ as of now. Perhaps NTV is a better authority on matters of this kind than The Guinness folks! Who knows!! [Seriously, how long does it take to Guinness to update their records on their site?] The "previous" British guy -- according to the Guinness site -- did this: "Most Cards Memorized British mindbender Dominic O'Brien memorized on a single sighting a random sequence of 54 separate packs of cards all shuffled together (2,808 playing cards) at the basement bar of Simpson's-In-The-Strand, London, UK, on May 1, 2002. It took Dominic 11 hours 42 minutes to memorize the 54 packs, and reciting them in the exact sequence took 3 hours 30 minutes. Guinness World Record rules allow only 0.5% margin of error (so no more than 14 errors), and memory-man Dominic completed the record with just eight errors ? four mistakes and four prompted corrections." **** oohi ashu