With 2016 coming to a close and less than a week left, if we had to summarize the outgoing year in a single phrase, it would be a mixed bag in terms of records.

With country accounted most number of selfie deaths across the world, few records like world’s large solar power plant and most trees planted in a day bring some laurel for the country. Here are some 'records' India scaled this year.

Largest solar power plant

Kamuthi, a small town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, became the home to the world's largest solar power plant at a single location. It was built in a record time of eight months, faster than California's Topaz Solar Farm, the former largest solar plant. 

Most trees planted in a day

More than 800,000 volunteers came to together to plant nearly 50 million saplings in a day in Allahabad. The erstwhile record of 847,275 trees was set by Pakistan in 2013.

Longest non-stop flight

State-run airline, Air India, overtook UAE's Emirates to record the longest non-stop flight ever when it flew 15,300 km from New Delhi to San Francisco through the trans-Pacific route instead of the usual Atlantic route in the shortest time.

Largest beach clean-up

UN officials, Indian celebrities and residents of Mumbai's Versova area got together to clean up more than 4 million pounds of trash along a 2.5 km beach stretch. This was the world's biggest such clean-up drive that witnessed participation from Eric Solheim, chief of United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) and Lewis Pugh, the UN Patron of the Oceans.

Most selfie deaths

Country recorded highest number of selfie deaths in the world for the second year in a row. Most of these have been reported to be water-related casualties. According to report, a total of 127 deaths have been reported due to selfies, of which whopping 76 deaths occurred in India alone. The country's financial capital Mumbai, situated along the Arabian Sea, has now declared 16 no-selfie zones across the city.