Cobra snake- Representative Image (Photo via Canva) Snakes are scary slithering creatures, and spotting one sends chills down a person’s spine. Especially in India, where spotting venomous snakes is common.And there is a specific kind of fear that comes with spotting a cobra that has raised its hood, the stillness right before it decides what…

Bengaluru woman checks August expenses, stunned by Rs 1.8 lakh total: ‘Is this normal?’ A monthly expense check can sometimes raise more questions than answers. One Bengaluru woman found herself doing exactly that after going through her spending for August. What began as a look at her own finances soon turned into an online conversation…

Scattered across Africa and Asia, serpent eagles are, quite literally, built for this exact job. Species like the brown snake eagle in Africa feed almost exclusively on snakes, showing no particular preference between harmless species and genuinely dangerous ones like cobras, puff adders, and black mambas. Their legs and talons carry noticeably thickened, scaled skin…

Flowers add to the right tinge of colours and fragrance to our lives, but not every beautiful flower ends up in the bouquets we see at the local florist.Some of these can be silently found in cottage gardens, while others live on the gothic edges of woodland beds, and a few have taken decades of…

Kurien had worked as a driver with the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) for 18 years. A Kerala bus driver had an unusual goodbye for the vehicle he had driven for years. On his last working day, Paul Kurien stopped beside his bus, leaned towards it and kissed it before walking away. The simple…

A bowl of plain white vinegar sitting quietly in the corner of a smelly room feels like exactly the kind of thing internet folklore invents and nobody actually tests. And yet this particular trick has genuine chemistry behind it, though not quite in the sweeping, cures-everything way it often gets described online. The honest version…