VII Things We Learnt Last Week

Updated on: 7 February 2024 5:29 pm

Salman Khurshid, who has twice served as India’s external affairs minister, made his first trip to Pakistan only last month, at the age of 61.
The Gujarat government has given yet another extension, the 22nd, to the Nanavati Commission set up to probe the 2002 post-Godhra riots
There is one public toilet for every 58,844 people in the Lucknow LS constituency represented by Union home minister Rajnath Singh
Chimps prefer Indian and African rhythms over Western music. And monkeys have a gambling instinct and believe in the ‘winning streak’.
Devotees at Puri’s Rath festival last week left behind over 100 metric tonnes of garbage that included shoes, coconut shells, earthen lamps and flowers
Of the 11,596 directorships available on NSE-listed firms, only 597 are held by women, against the 9,009 by men
Indian men spend 19 minutes a day on household chores; women 298 minutes