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February 6, 2016 The sequel can’t dislodge memories of the original, but the action is spectacular.
13K Total Views Sunny Deol is back, and this time he is throwing punches from the director’s chair. In Ghayal Once Again, Deol stars in and directs the sequel to Raj Kumar Santoshi’s vigilante drama from 1990, which featured the bulky actor as a boxer who kills a slimy businessman in full view. Ghayal’s Balwant […]
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February 6, 2016 As garbage continues to pile up in East Delhi, a lesson on how to better manage our waste
Photo Credit: IANS 14.4K Total Views For the past week, thousands of hapless East Delhi residents have had to wade through piles of garbage to get anywhere. The municipal workers entrusted with keeping the area clean are on strike because nobody has bothered to pay them. Even if residents manage to skirt the waste, they […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 The secret to staying young? Scientists boost lifespan of mice by deleting defective cells
Photo Credit: pixabay 13.6K Total Views The ageing population is one of the greatest challenges facing society. More people are surviving to old age than ever before, but we currently lack the means to keep them healthy and independent. If a treatment existed to reduce sickness and death from ageing by 20% then between now […]
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February 6, 2016 Sania Mirza is a great inspiration: Pranjala Yadlapalli, India’s top junior player
Photo Credit: Facebook 13.1K Total Views After Sania Mirza and Saina Nehwal, Hyderabad has another sporting champion to be proud of. Pranjala Yadlapalli may be just 16 but she is already India’s top rated junior tennis player. She is currently ranked 16 in the world junior girl’s rankings. Yadalapalli was the tenth seed at the […]
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February 6, 2016 Photo Credit: Facebook 12.5K Total Views The trajectory followed by the Congress since its defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election shows that the grand old party remains convinced that its most ardent supporters live in rural India even as the urban middle class remains smitten by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charms. Consequently, the party […]
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February 6, 2016 The ugly truth behind a ‘heartwarming’ story of Muslims performing a Kashmiri Pandit’s last rites
Photo Credit: Courtesy: Rahul Pandita 54.5K Total Views On January 30, an octogenarian Kashmiri Pandit, Janki Nath, died in his home in Malvan village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. He had a government job, but he retired just as Malvan was emptying of its Pandit inhabitants in 1990. He sent his daughter to the safety […]
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February 6, 2016 As right-wing BJP seeks to appropriate Bose, a reminder: Congress expelled him for being too left
20K Total Views For some time now, the Bharatiya Janata Party has been on the look out for historical icons. After building an impressive present as India’s largest party, it is only natural that it would now look to construct a notable past. Given the colossal role that the Congress played in the freedom struggle, […]
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February 6, 2016 ‘People like him do drugs, have a high sex drive’
Photo Credit: Akshay Mahajan 28.8K Total Views Over the past few years, I’ve stopped keeping track of the news on a daily basis. No good seems to come from it. As a result, I’m the last to know about anything. On Wednesday, while I was running around on a writing assignment in my hometown of […]
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February 6, 2016 Punjab bypoll is now a one-horse race
Photo Credit: Narinder Nanu/AFP 17.4K Total Views It was being seen as a semi-final, an acid test for the main contenders before the Punjab assembly elections next year. But the Khadoor Sahib assembly bypoll is now turning out to be a damp squib, with two of the three major parties pulling out of the contest. […]
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February 6, 2016 What flight attendants really think about when they first greet you
Photo Credit: Tom Purves/Flickr 15.5K Total Views I’ve been a flight attendant for 25 years. Greeting passengers at the door requires concentration on several levels. Of course the objective is to make you feel welcome and comfortable, but that’s only one aspect. While I’m trying to give that impression, I’m evaluating you very closely, and […]
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February 6, 2016 David Cameron is to blame- Indians are falling out of love with British universities
Photo Credit: Pool New/Reuters 4.6K Total Views A record number of Indian students are enrolling for higher education in the US – in just two years, it rose by 71% to 181,051. But the trend’s been just the opposite for the UK. In the last five years, the number of Indian students opting for British […]
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February 4, 2016 Hepaticas: early spring jewels
Petal power: Hepatica flowers come in all shapes and sizes. Photograph: Michael Myers Robbie Blackhall-Miles Alongside the first of the green-flowered hellebores and the early flowers of thefetid adders tongue, hidden among the white canvas of snowdrops in the woodland garden, there grows a plant that takes some closer inspection. Hepatica transsilvanica(dark form). Photograph: Michael […]
