- 2014 is the 400th anniversary of Indo-British relations. It was in 1604 that James I sent an ambassador to Jehangir’s court.
- China is creating a special lane on pavements for mobile phone users who have their eyes
glued to the screen
- Prithvi Shaw, 14, who scored 543 in a Harris shield inter-school match in Mumbai, has signed a Rs 36 lakh bat deal with cricket equipment maker SG
- Kiwi cricket ‘great’ Chris Cairns is driving trucks and cleaning bus shelters at $17 per hour
to make ends meet
- An Italian court auctioned over 2,100 pornographic films to recover the amount defrauded by a businessman
- John Steinbeck believed that a writer should ideally die by about the age of 28
- The purple-blue ‘neelakurinji’ blooms every 12 years in the hilly grasslands of Munnar in Kerala