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‘All sacrifices of work culminate in knowledge’: Orissa High Court invokes Bhagavad Gita, orders peon’s promotion

March 14, 2026 10:16 am

Hearing the plea of a Group-D peon whose promotion was halted because he had acquired higher education without the authorities' nod, the Orissa High Court also quoted lines from Shakespeare's famous play 'Henry VI'.

Some 400,000 years ago, in what is now eastern England, a group of Neanderthals used flint and pyrite to make fires by a watering hole — not just once, but time after time, over several generations. (Express Photo)

Archaeologists Find Oldest Evidence of Fire-Making

December 12, 2025 9:21 am

“A lot of people had a hunch that they were making fire at this date,” said Nick Ashton, an archaeologist at the British Museum and an author of the study. “But now we can convincingly say, ‘Yeah, this was the case.’

While scientists accept that the long train could be an encumbrance, judging by this photograph of the peacock in the razor wire coil, he clearly managed to get out safely

Why Charles Darwin was sick seeing a feather in a peacock's tail

April 09, 2025 8:14 am

While it head-butted his theory of natural selection, Darwin emerged with the theory of sexual selection as a way to emphasise that, perhaps, females kept their eyes on beauty in selecting their mates

Experts Explain | Darwin Day: How theories of evolution helped our knowledge of life on Earth

February 12, 2024 1:19 pm

This process of evolution by divergence has been operating for nearly 3.5 billion years across the Earth, resulting in the spectacular biodiversity that we see – both in fossil records (such as of dinosaurs) and in today’s living world. How has this knowledge helped us and what might we learn from it?

Sunday Long Reads: The success of South Indian films, learning to be comfortable in one's own skin, Abhay K's ode to nature, and more

May 08, 2022 10:23 am

Here are this week's interesting reads!

Charles Darwin notebooks missing for 20 years returned to Cambridge

April 05, 2022 6:00 pm

The university said Tuesday that the manuscripts were left in the library inside a pink gift bag, along with a note wishing the librarian a Happy Easter.