That Was The Week That Was

An American solves a long-standing mathematical Riddle: the most efficient way to stack oranges.

AIIMS can now nominate its own professors without any clearance from the cabinet appointments committee, as was done for the past five years.

A Kerala temple revives the Thookam ritual, in which a volunteer is hauled up a 32-foot scaffold with hooks pierced into his back, after 16 years.

Militants stage a Grenade Attack at a rally addressed by PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti in Uri, Kashmir. Four people were killed, state finance minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig was injured.

UK Muslims and Jews can have Halal, Kosher meat, despite vigorous animal rights campaigns.