Last Updated: April 20, 2024, 12:00 IST Royal Enfield Expands Motorcycle Rental Service Globally with Exciting Tours. (Photo: The Financial Express) Royal Enfield goes global with ‘Rentals and Tours’ service, offering bike rentals and guided tours in 32 destinations across 25 countries. Expanding its successful bike rental service from India, Royal Enfield now offers it … Read more
In 1966, 27-year-old Newton Jibunor, an environmentalist, completed a solo drive from the UK to Nigeria through the Sahara desert. It was a desirable feat that all adventurers dreamed of, but the fear of the unknown often outweighed wanderlust. Fifty-eight years later, history repeats itself in the form of 28-year-old Pelumi Nubi, who concluded a … Read more
Director Ava DuVernay speaks with the CBC’s Eli Glasner about what compelled her to create her latest and perhaps most challenging film, Origin. (Evan Mitsui/CBC) When you sit down to interview Ava DuVernay, you quickly realize how she rose to the top of her profession in 12 short years. Before DuVernay became an Oscar-nominated director … Read more
The 2013 discovery of the largest collection of hominid fossils ever found is rewriting the origin of complex behaviours we thought were uniquely human, says a renowned paleoanthropologist. The fossilized bones belonged to an entirely new species of ancient human relatives called, Homo naledi, which lived in South Africa several hundred thousand years ago when the first Homo … Read more
The Current11:34A hand-drawn map with no people, but 1,642 free-roaming animals Artist Anton Thomas wanted to draw a “world map of nature” that would showcase the many different species across the globe — but at one point he was a little worried he’d run out of animals. “I thought before drawing, ‘Oh, surely I would … Read more
