- George Orwell, the Bihar-born author of 1984 and Animal Farm, has been called England’s “supreme mediocrity” by Will Self, uniting “great expertise with very little originality”
- 49.46 per cent of the State Information Commissioners are retired civil servants belonging to the all-India services
- 92 women are raped in India every day
- September is the least stressful month in the year, according to researchers
- Dorsal medial habenula is the region in our brains that controls the desire to exercise
- Mohammed (4,801) has emerged as the most popular name in Oslo, ahead of Jan (4,667) and Per (4,155)
- A huge 86 per cent of the noise pollution in Bangalore is caused by civil society and only the remaining 14 per cent by industries