- Laloo Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal pays a monthly rent of Rs 333 for its headquarters in Lutyens Delhi
- 10 sarpanches have been killed by militants in Kashmir in the last four years; 20 are ‘missing’
- Planes of the Israeli airline El Al have cockpits with direct access to a restroom. The pilots don’t have to leave the cockpit to do their business.
- Feminists in Finland have launched the ‘Free the Nipple’ campaign, demanding a right to show the appendage wherever and whenever they want
- Only two of the six James Bond actors—Daniel Craig and Roger Moore—have been Englishmen
- Anuraag Mahanta is the original name of the Assam-born rock singer Papon
- ‘The Chopin Project’, by Alice Sara Ott, a pianist born to a German father and a Japanese mother, is No. 1 in 25 countries.
