Mulligatawny soup may have been the first dish of Indian origin served on a flight, on Graf Zeppelin’s 1929 journey around the world Till Aug 31 last year, the PMO helped 12,858 people who wrote to PM Modi, disbursing Rs 174.99 crore When he became BJP president, Nitin Gadkari went to the CPI office to take A.B. Bardhan’s blessings The population of donkeys in India has fallen by 76 per cent since 1951... but the mule population is up by 233 per cent After 712 babies had been photographed, Shashi Tharoor’s sisters, Shobha and Smita, became the first models for Amul ads in 1961 ‘Error 451’ is the new HTTP code for online censorship The coconut tree loses its ‘tree status’ in Goa. No okay needed to cut it down now.Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta