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                                            Human ancestors used fire one million years ago An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongside animal bones and stone tools, were found in a layer dated to one million years ago at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa. "The analysis pushes the timing for the human use of fire back by 300,000 years, suggesting that human ancestors as early as Homo  erectus may have begun using fire as part of their way of life," said U of T anthropologist Michael Chazan,  co-director of the project and director of U of T's Archaeology Centre. Wonderwerk is a massive cave located near the edge of the Kalahari where earlier excavations by Peter Beaumont of t...

20th June, 1996 – This was a day when all Bengalis in Kolkata & West Bengal tuned into their television sets in the evening, because far away on English shores, a young Bengali lad was starting his journey in Test cricket for India. 15 years on, that young lad is now India’s most successful Test captain ever and is widely regarded as the one who built the foundation for the present Indian team which is now No. 1 in the world. Apart from his numerous records & achievements in his career, the one thing that is associated with the name of Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (or Dada, as he is affectionately called), is the HUGE support and passion that he generates among Indians – be it in the eastern part of the country, other states or even outside the country! But the frenzy that he generates among the Bengalis is something that is to be astonished about. He is a true Bengali icon whom everybody love and revere. Yet, this passion and fan-following have often been accuse...