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Flying in the 1970s could feel less like simply getting from one city to another and more like attending an event. Jumbo jets had lounges, airlines competed through elaborate meals and drinks, and smoking was still permitted in parts of many aircraft. The experience came with freedoms that would seem unusual today. Some disappeared because of safety rules, others because airlines changed their business models.Smoke a cigarette at your seatSmoking was still part of commercial flying in the 1970s. Airlines often divided cabins into smoking and non-smoking sections rather than banning tobacco altogether. United, for example, introduced separate sections in…

India vs Japan Live Score, T20I: India’s one-off T20I against Japan is more than an unusual fixture on the international calendar. It carries echoes of a cricketing tradition that dates back nearly a century. On their way to England for the 1930 Ashes, Australia stopped in Ceylon, where touring teams traditionally played a day of cricket. Don Bradman was part of that Australian side and played in Ceylon, decades before Sri Lanka became an international cricketing nation. India’s current detour to the Japanese town of Sano provides a fascinating modern parallel. The world champions will now face Japan, a developing…

In 1999, conservation biologists monitoring California’s northern Channel Islands faced a serious crisis. Only 15 island foxes remained on San Miguel Island and another 15 on nearby Santa Rosa Island, leaving the small native species close to extinction. An emergency recovery program launched by Channel Islands National Park and partner organisations helped save the animals. Through captive breeding, predator removal and habitat restoration, the island fox made one of the fastest wildlife recoveries in American conservation history.Environmental chain reaction causes collapseThe rapid decline of the island fox, a housecat-sized relative of the mainland grey fox found nowhere else in the…

Robin Williams’ daughter, Zelda Williams, condemns the use of AI to create videos of her father online after one such video ended up going viral. (Instagram) Zelda Williams is taking a stand against AI. The actress and director, whose father, the world-renowned star Robin Williams, passed away in 2011, recently called netizens out online for using AI. The comment came after an AI-generated video of the ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ actor had started going viral online. The filmmaker urged people to stop using the late actor’s likeness and voice for messages that he never consented to.Zelda Williams calls out a recent viral…

Henri Matisse (Photo: Henrimatisse.com) Henri Matisse was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker who is well regarded as one of the most important artists of the 20th century who defined modern art. He originally trained and worked as a law clerk, but everything changed in 1889, when appendicitis kept him bedridden for months; then his mother gave him a box of paints to pass the time, and he later said he felt he had “found paradise.” He abandoned law and enrolled in art school in Paris.Later in his life, ill health confined him to a wheelchair; it is then that…

(From left) Odisha players Sandhyarani Tudu, Dumuni Marndi, Nirmalya Rout and Mama Naik in Kolkata on Monday Kolkata: Odisha’s rugby pipeline continues to power the Indian women’s sevens programme, with four players from the state earning selection in the squad for the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.Senior campaigner Dumuni Marndi (Mayurbhanj) will feature in her second Asian Games alongside Mama Naik (Keonjhar), Nirmalya Rout (Bargarh) and Sandhyarani Tudu (Baripada, Mayurbhanj).For Marndi, the selection marks another chapter in a journey that began in rural Mayurbhanj, where her sporting ambitions were initially met with resistance at home.“The last Asian Games was a…

For a family that has worked the property for more than 70 years, the arrangement preserves both the land and its role in the valley’s agricultural landscape. For more than seven decades, the Foster family has worked the same stretch of Washington farmland, raising dairy cattle, producing hay and opening its operation to visitors through agritourism. Now, nearly 40 acres of that family-owned property will remain farmland permanently, giving the land a future that extends well beyond the current generation, states an online press release by Forterra Org. Scroll down to read the details of the farm owned by Brian…

Veteran Tamil actor Radha has filed a police complaint against her sister and actor Ambika and their brother Mallikarjuna Kunjan Nair. Radha has alleged that signed blank cheques kept at her Chennai residence were taken without her knowledge and later used in an attempt to claim around Rs 46 crore.Radha files police complaint against Ambika, brotherAs per a report by India Today Digital, the complaint was submitted to the Greater Chennai Police Commissioner on September 21. According to the complaint, Radha maintained an IDBI Bank current account for business-related expenses and had kept some signed blank cheques at her residence.Radha…

The Indian kitchen of the 1960s looked very different from today. There were no instant noodles, ready-to-eat meals or supermarket aisles packed with dozens of snack brands. Yet packaged food was slowly becoming part of urban life.Some products that once felt familiar have almost disappeared from everyday conversation. Others survive only as old tins, faded advertisements or memories of grandparents. Their stories also reveal how Indian eating habits were beginning to change.Dalda was more than just cooking fatDalda vanaspati was already a major name in Indian kitchens by the 1960s. The brand had been introduced in India in the 1930s…

NEW DELHI: India’s MMA fighter Varun Sanyal has broken his silence after being forced to withdraw from the Asian Games following a blackout during a sauna session, admitting that his attempt to cut weight on his own was “quite foolish” but saying he felt he had no choice.Sanyal, who was due to compete in the men’s traditional 77kg event, passed out on Sunday while trying to make weight at his cruise-ship accommodation. He was subsequently declared medically unfit and could not compete.“I came here on two weeks’ notice, I found out relatively late. I obviously had a bunch of accommodation…