- Ahmedabad 250 lions die in Gujarat’s Gir sanctuary in the last five years. Massive poaching, diseases the main culprits.
- Delhi ‘Just charging my mobile’, Delhi Police say they get all sorts of excuses from men transgressing into the Metro’s ladies coaches; 3,500 caught in 2014 so far.
- Patna The success story of Bihar’s ‘Sudha Milk Cooperative’ is becoming a part of NCERT textbooks
- Nagpur The orange (and saffron) city is becoming the first in the country to get a 100 per cent ethanol-fuelled bus. It will be plied on a pilot basis.
- Patan, Kullu Rani ki Vav (queen’s stepwell, above) in Gujarat and the Himalayan National Park in HP get UNESCO world heritage tag
- Mumbai Most members of the core committee of the Campa Cola compound are not quite the homeless they were thought to be
- London Olympic tennis champion Andy Murray appoints former world women’s No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo as his new coach, replacing Ivan Lendl