| | | The toll from a grim three-train crash in Odisha’s Balasore district climbed on Saturday as a clutch of top politicians visited the site and rescuers raced against time to pull survivors out of crumpled compartments in what was India’s worst train accident in nearly three decades. | THE DAILY QUIZ He dropped it into the Chhattisgarh reservoir by accident. So Rajesh Vishwas drained the whole dam, millions of litres of water, to retrieve it. His fine: Rs 53,092. What did the not-so-smart government official drop? a. His corruption report
b. His Labrador pup
c.His Aadhaar card
d. His smartphone TAKE THE FULL QUIZ | | THE BIG STORY Train tragedy toll nears 300 The toll from a grim three-train crash in Odisha’s Balasore district climbed on Saturday as a clutch of top politicians visited the site and rescuers raced against time to pull survivors out of crumpled compartments in what was India’s worst train accident in nearly three decades. The Chennai-bound Coromandel Express rammed into a goods train just beyond Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore district around 6.56pm on Friday, the impact of the collision flinging several compartments into the adjacent track where the Kolkata-bound Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express slammed into them later. Read more. | | | | | | A LITTLE LIGHT READING Why don’t I remember that?: Unlocking the mysteries of taste memory Could part of the top-secret Coca-Cola formula be a sense of nothingness? American tycoon Warren Buffett has famously said that the drink lacks “taste memory” and that’s why one can consume “one of these at 9 o’clock, 11 o’clock, 5 o’clock... (and not) get sick of it”, while “You can’t do that with cream soda, root beer, orange, grape.” What really is taste memory? For a while now, researchers have been studying how flavour and short-term memory affect food consumption. Read more. | | THE WEEKEND FIX Out of the shadows: The changing landscape of the dark web “Comic books are like a movie with an unlimited budget; a place where the entire universe can be destroyed on one page and recreated on the next,” says Sharad Devarajan, 48. Now an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, lecturing on media marketing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and disruptive technologies, Devarajan is best-known for co-creating the Indian Spider-Man, Pavitr Prabhakar. He brought out comics featuring Prabhakar in 2004, as part of a collaboration between Marvel and a banner he co-founded at age 20, Gotham Comics (which served as a regional publisher of Marvel and DC Comics material in India). How does he feel about the character’s first screen outing? Read more. | | ALWAYS AT THE MOVIES BY ANUPAMA CHOPRA Koffee and a director’s cut At the Cannes Film Festival late last month, after a screening of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, I had dinner with two New York-based Indian critics. Both are terrific observers of cinema who write for some of the world’s most-respected media platforms. After discussing Scorsese, the conversation turned to Karan Johar, and the latest season of Koffee with Karan (proof that the filmmaker is omnipresent). Read more. | | HT This Day: June 4, 1935 36,000 dead in Quetta and Mastung According to official information received in Simla up to mid-day on June 3, 26,000 persons are believed to have fallen victims to the earthquake disaster at Quetta, out of a total estimated population of 40,000. Read more. | | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | Written and edited by Shahana Yasmin. Produced by Md Shad Hasnain. | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | |  | |
