Pests, rotten food and more – Nizam’s, Karim’s among 40 Kolkata eateries facing action over hygiene: Here’s what KMC found

For a city where eating out is almost a way of life, this is likely to make plenty of people pause before their next meal.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has taken action against around 40 restaurants, eateries and sweet shops after a week-long food safety drive found violations related to hygiene, food storage and other…

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‘If it is a joke, then it is the most expensive joke anyone has ever played on me’: How Samay Raina’s challenge led Anand Mahindra to launch a chess league

A comedian made a casual suggestion. A businessman took it seriously. And a few years later, the result was a global chess league.Anand Mahindra has revealed the rather unexpected story behind the Global Chess League, tracing its beginnings to a challenge from comedian Samay Raina during an online interaction in 2020.Mahindra jokingly calls it the…

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Dalai Lama Kindness: Quote of the day by the Dalai Lama: “Warm-heartedness. Even animals appreciate it. If you are motivated by loving kindness, it will be…” The spiritual leader advises on how kindness heals everything

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and one of the most renowned voices on compassion and human well-being alive today. Born in 1935, he was identified as a child as the reincarnation of his predecessor and later became the religious and political head of Tibet.In 1989, he was…

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Gardening Hack: Why are gardeners putting corks in their potted plants? The surprising reason behind this gardening hack

Scroll through gardening content online lately, and there’s a decent chance you’ll spot someone dropping a handful of old wine corks into a plant pot or tucking a few underneath it like tiny stilts. It looks almost too simple to actually do anything useful, but this quietly viral trend has genuine science behind it, not…

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Meet B.K. Mitra: The forgotten artist who painted Hindu gods for generations of readers

Artist: B.K. Mitra. (via Twitter: Gita Press, Gorakhpur, India) Before religious images could be created digitally, artists relied on paper, paint and painstaking handwork to give visual form to stories from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Hindu scriptures. Among those artists was B.K. Mitra, or Binay Kumar Mitra, whose paintings became closely associated with the religious…

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