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VII Things We Learnt Last Week

  • PM Modi’s favourite Hindi film is Dev Anand-starrer The Guide, based on R.K. Narayan’s novel
  • Did Chandrababu Naidu choose Amaravati as the name for the new AP capital because of his fascination for the number 9?
  • 69 climbers have died on the slopes of the world’s 10th highest peak Annapurna since it was conquered in 1950, making it more dangerous than Everest
  • ‘Senolytics’ is the name for a new class of drugs designed to delay the ageing process
  • The top four construction firms in the world are all Chinese
  • Fast and Furious star Vin Disel has 86 million followers on FB
  • ‘Gaunyle’ is the disinfectant made of cow urine that Maneka Gandhi wants her colleagues to use, instead of phenyl
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