VII Things We Learnt Last Week

Updated on: 7 February 2024 5:28 pm

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