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Martian clay may have harboured boron – a key component for one of the life’s molecular building blocks – at a time when life was just starting on the Earth,scientists say.

Dejected by the loss of over Rs 4 lakh while playing an online Ludo game, a 26-year-old Bengaluru homemaker reportedly left her house along with her two children by leaving behind an apology letter for her husband. One child is six years old, while the other is barely one.

The S&P BSE Sensex fell 188.32 points (0.33 per cent) to end at 56,409.96, while the Nifty 50 declined 40.50 points (0.24 per cent) to settle at 16,818.10. Both the indices had opened 0.9 per cent higher earlier in the day and rose as much as 1 per cent in the early morning deals with the Sensex reaching 57,166.14 and the broader Nifty touching 17,026.05, however, they gave the gains and turned negative in the afternoon deals.

In its endeavour to connect people with India’s heritage and culture through maps, MapmyIndia Mappls is releasing a series of printed map artworks, called The Ramayan Maps, for the first time in India.

Theatre owners in Kerala are unconcerned by the adverse publicity generated by the controversial Hindi film, ‘The Kerala Story’, which is expected to be shown in around 30 screens across the state on Friday.

After being cancelled in March last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, Art Dubai returned this week to the sunbaked desert metropolis it calls home, becoming one of the first in-person international art fairs of 2021. The show is part of the city-state’s efforts to reopen to international trade and tourism that power its economy.

Despite the passing of a decade since it came out, director Anjali Menon’s Bangalore Days remains one of those rare movies that non-Malayalees identify with the Malayalam film industry. The irony here, however, is that the coming-of-age romantic comedy is almost nothing like the films the industry had produced until that point, with its aesthetics, treatment and characterisation deviating significantly from the norm, and the only similarity with its predecessors being the focus on human emotions and interpersonal relationships.

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s nod to The Addams Family