Life, More features, 14th Dec 2016, News & Stories from India

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Life More Features 14 Dec 2016

Life, More features, 14 Dec 2016

Twitter user Sulagna's tweet that started the hilarious replies (Photo: Twitter/@BeingChatterjee)

Mumbai Publicist Sparks Funny First Date Responses on Twitter

A conversation that we all wait to have with our friend circle

14 Dec 2016 4:44 PM

JK Rowling's illustrated manuscript of "The Tales of Beedle and Bard" famously features in the seventh part of the Harry Potter series

JK Rowling's rare illustrated manuscript sold

The manuscript is one of six copies that Rowling made as gifts to those who helped bring her magical world of wizards and witches to life.

14 Dec 2016 10:47 AM

the 2003 National Book Awards recipients from left to right, C.K. Williams for Poetry, Shirley Hazzard for Fiction, Polly Horvath for Young People's Literature and Carlos Eire for Non Fiction, in New York City. (Photo: AP)

Australian novelist, Shirley Hazzard, dies at 85

The novelist had been in failing health and died Monday at her home in Manhattan

14 Dec 2016 10:33 AM

The Arctic region is showing a clear sign of warming that has never happened before. (Photo: AFP)

Hottest Arctic on record triggers massive ice melt

The Arctic region is continuing to warm up more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet

14 Dec 2016 9:18 AM

New Indian theatre gets a leg-up from patrons

Novelists of late have thrived on reinventing mythology for urban Indian readership after the success of the Immortals of Meluha.

14 Dec 2016 6:30 AM

A marvellous 400th tribute to William Shakespeare

Surgical Strike, a stand-up act by Sanjay Rajaura was a direct attack at the present government and its lack of will to change the system.

14 Dec 2016 6:16 AM

MRI machines use extremely expensive materials such as niobium–titanium alloys.

New Tech: Cheaper MRI machines? Not so fast

Scientists in India have discovered that there is an element that can help make cheaper MRI machines.

14 Dec 2016 3:37 AM

The balls provide shade, cool the water and cut down evaporation.

Dry days: Shade Balls and saving water

How A few lakhs of these tiny little balls can save a water body from bacteria and evaporation.

14 Dec 2016 3:28 AM

Friends are family. And for some, the social bond goes beyond the familial.

It’s complicated: Best friends and why we need them

A bit of science and social to explain why that band on the wrist matters.

14 Dec 2016 3:19 AM

A mainstay of local trains in Mumbai, vulgar graffiti, text and stickers with phone numbers, have cropped up despite the Railways’ several cleanliness drives over the years.(Photo: Chirodeep Chaudhuri)

City girl pulls the chain on pervert train artist

Taking a cue from Nikita Fernandes, Mumbai Police is hoping for a lot more women to come forward and report harassment.

14 Dec 2016 12:04 AM

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