VII Things We Learnt Last Week

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VII Things We Learnt Last Week
VII Things We Learnt Last Week
  • 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

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