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Image Credit: Facebook/ Mekhala Munshi Clive House, also known as Burra Kothi, located in Dum Dum on Kolkata’s northern fringe, serves as a testament to the rich history that has unfolded within its premises over hundreds of years. Clive House has often been described as one of the oldest structures found in Kolkata, and yet…
In the quiet high desert of Oregon, a small discovery is once again reshaping how we think about early human life in North America. It is not a dramatic artefact or a famous skeleton. It is something far more fragile. A tiny stitched fragment of elk hide, preserved inside a cave for roughly 12,400 years,…
Ranbir Kapoor‘s sister Riddhima Kapoor is gearing up for her Bollywood debut with ‘Daadi Ki Shaadi’. The film also features Neetu Kapoor and Kapil Sharma. At 45, Riddhima becomes the oldest member of the Kapoor family to step into acting for the first time. She had previously appeared on ‘Fabulous Lives vs Bollywood Wives’.Riddhima opened…
Amid the unendurable, inside hospital wards, in the rubble after a calamity, or in the quiet devastation of personal loss, dark, absurd jokes bubble up like twisted lifelines.“We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to,” wrote novelist James Grippando. It’s morbid, it’s wrong, yet it cuts through the horror,…
Octopuses are surprisingly intelligent, with two-thirds of their neurons in their arms, allowing them to solve puzzles, escape enclosures, and even recognize human faces. These mollusks demonstrate advanced problem-solving skills, as evidenced by a lab octopus that raided fish tanks at night. Their intelligence evolved independently from humans, making them unique among invertebrates. Octopuses might…
In a world obsessed with anti-ageing products, miracle supplements, and expensive wellness trends, a 111-year-old man offers a surprisingly simple answer to the question everyone asks: how do you live a long life?Forget anti-aging serums and miracle diets: Luis Cano, America’s oldest living man at 111, credits his longevity to three basic habits: never smoking…
A small clay tablet has offered a remarkably human glimpse into life 4,000 years ago. Researchers studying ancient Mesopotamian inscriptions in Denmark have identified what may be the world’s oldest known beer receipt, a written record of beer supplied for workers in the Sumerian city of Umma. Instead of chronicling war, kings or religion, the…
Fatou, the world’s oldest gorilla living in captivity, celebrates her 69th birthday at Berlin Zoo Fatou, world’s oldest gorilla living in captivity, marked her 69th birthday on Monday with a special meal at the Berlin Zoo which included cherry tomatoes, beets, leeks and lettuce, whlie skipping cake as sugar is not considered healthy for her…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, primarily responsible for constitutional interpretation and matters of urgent criminal appeals, is burdened with more than 3,500 public interest litigations (PILs), 698 of them pending for over 10 years. The oldest one has not been adjudicated for 42 years. Most of these PILs are related to environmental, land laws and…
This undated image provided by Katerina Harvati shows a 430,000 year old wooden tool from Greece that was possibly used for digging. (Katerina Harvati, Dimitris Michailidis via AP) Archaeologists working in southern Greece have identified wooden tools that appear to be the oldest of their kind ever found. The objects were recovered at the Marathousa…
