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Archaeologists find evidence of 80,000-year-old man
Archaeologists have made a startling discovery which could well take the history of this area back by a couple of thousand years -- literally. Recently, while carrying out excavations to unearth a stupa and temple complex in Mansar, archaelogists stumbled upon stone tools of the pre-historic man ranging from a period of 80,000 years to 30,000 years.
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Another space odyssey for Glenn
Thirty-six years after he became the first American to orbit the earth, Senator John Glenn is being granted his fondest wish: one more blast-off and fiery ride to where "the view is tremendous." He will become the oldest man in space when he flies a 10-day research mission aboard Discovery, tentatively scheduled to lift off on October 8.
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Subhas Agarwal's Rooi Ka Bojh steals Siri Fort show
At film school, he walked out of Kurosawa's Roshomon. Yet he is a film maker, and a good one at that. No one among the film-loving janta at Siri Fort had a clue as to who Subhas Agarwal was until his curiously-titled Rooi Ka Bohj was screened. One of the 13 films in the Indian Panorama, Rooi Ka Bojh is the unwitting gem of this year's selection.
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Lenin's embalmers at a dead end
Short on cash, the embalmers of Lenin's corpse have started looking for private clients, selling their services, patching up and preserving the bodies of rich businessmen shot dead in contract killings and accidents. Media reports reveal that specialists have even started to take private orders from people in Russia to restore bodies for funeral ceremonies.
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