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Pune restaurant launches ‘Bullet Thali’ challenge: Eat a 4 kg platter in 60 mins to win a Royal Enfield bike
The Pune restaurant owner conceptualised the 'Bullet Thali' challenge to bounce back after his business incurred huge losses amid the coronavirus pandemic
Microsoft files a patent to bring back dead loved ones as ‘chatbots’ from their digital data
Microsoft has reportedly filed a patent that would allow it to built a chatbot mirroring human beings based on their digital data.
Bernie Sanders and his mittens during Biden inauguration trigger a meme fest on social media. Details
The US Senator from Vermont was spotted at the venue wearing parka and a pair of very homely looking mittens at the high profile event.
In 2013, NCERT had admitted they have no documents to back claims on Qutab Minar made in textbooks
NCERT's reply to a 2013 RTI query says they have no documents or epigraphic evidence to back the claims made regarding the Qutab Minar in their history textbook.
Went undercover as ‘Iftikhar Bhatt’, killed two Hizbul terrorists: The story of Major Mohit Sharma
Major Mohit Sharma from the 1 Para Special Forces was martyred in an anti-terror operation in Kupwara in 2009.
Kerala state board Class 9 textbook distorts history, claims Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahwari was the ‘Father of Surgery’ instead of Sushrutha
Indian physician Sushrutha, who lived much earlier than Al-Zahwari, is considered to be the 'father of surgery'
ASI approves underwater research project to determine how and when the Ram Setu was formed
The research would be carried out to understand the nature and formation of the Ram Setu and its surrounding areas
World’s oldest known artwork is of a warty pig, found in Indonesia’s Sulawesi Islands
The warty pig cave painting located in Leang Tedongnge cave in Sulawesi Island is believed to be created by humans using red ochre pigment.
NCERT says it has no information on source of claim made in textbook that Mughals had rebuilt temples after destroying them
NCERT History textbook says that Shahjahan and Aurangzeb have issued grants for rebuilding temples destroyed in war
‘Your c**k is mine now’, hackers take control of Internet-enabled male chastity device, demand ransom in Bitcoin
The hacker was able to take control of men’s chastity devices that are often used by people in the BDSM community to prevent erections.
