A Noida-based man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a 50-million-year-old Gastropod Fossil from the Geological Survey of India's (GSI) stall at the India International Trade Fair 2024 ...

meaning the fossil was more than 11,700 years old, and could have been living during the last planetary ice age. The animal that called the shell home, a gastropod, was long dead, but the shell ...

According to the police, the accused, who worked at Noida's Crown Plaza Hotel, was a regular visitor to the trade fair in Delhi and had a keen interest in various art forms. He was arrested by the ...