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DOMESTIC TRAVEL: Chiselled beauties
Celestial nymphs and deities vie for attention at the perfectly sculpted temples of Belur and Halebid. We lost all track of time while discovering an amazing wealth of details in the ornate carvings of the temples at Belur and Halebid, a must on ...

LIFESTYLE: There’s no catch here!
The fishing nets and boats idle for a month each year in Dhamra, Orissa, during a self-imposed ban.. April is a cruel, if not the cruellest, month for the fishermen of Dhamra (locally called Dhamara), a fishing hamlet on the Dhamra river, off ...

SPORTS: IPL matches reach 10 m viewers
Chennai, April 23 Despite advertisers getting jittery about the viewership of the ongoing IPL tournament, 10 million viewers tuned in over the weekend to view the matches, according to the TAM Peoplemeter System, which recorded viewership ...

SPORTS: Elections and IPL: Victims of equi-probability
Until the first week of April, everyone — and especially the TV channels — was hoping that the boredom of the summer would be mitigated by the general election and the Indian Premier League of cricket (IPL). Politics and cricket ...

From Life

GENDER: Finding her feet
Women in local governance — the first step towards gender equity in Bihar.. Winds of change are finally blowing through Bihar and a lot of credit for this is being given by political analysts, researchers and social scientists to a sincere ...

HEALTH: No fear, buddy
Worrying clouds the mind, impairs judgement.. Please do not worry about losing your job, and never feel insecure about what life has in store for you. Fear makes a poor companion — it clouds intelligence, stifles presence of mind and ...

TOURISM: Chiselled beauties
Celestial nymphs and deities vie for attention at the perfectly sculpted temples of Belur and Halebid. We lost all track of time while discovering an amazing wealth of details in the ornate carvings of the temples at Belur and Halebid, a must on ...

AQUACULTURE: There’s no catch here!
The fishing nets and boats idle for a month each year in Dhamra, Orissa, during a self-imposed ban.. April is a cruel, if not the cruellest, month for the fishermen of Dhamra (locally called Dhamara), a fishing hamlet on the Dhamra river, off ...

PHOTOGRAPHIC & ALLIED PRODUCTS: An officer and a lensman
A bureaucrat whose love for photography helps him focus on the ‘real issues’. My greatest fear,” says G.B. Mukherji, a Secretary to the Government of India, “is being labelled the ‘bureaucrat who shoots’, you ...

CINEMA: New action
A movie without a climax? A heroine with no name? Yes, in some recent Tamil movies. Have you ever come across an Indian movie in which the heroine’s name is not known, either to the audience or to the hero himself? Or have you come across ...

GENDER: No refuge from sanitary woes
Kashmiri Pandits, especially the women, living in unhygienic refugee camps risk serious illnesses.. Usha Pandita, 45, feels tired even after finishing the smallest of chores. But that’s not unusual for her. She suffers from Pelvic ...

WILDLIFE: Our bookish frog
It’s smart enough to wedge between tomes and evade capture. A frog has been hiding in plain sight for the past two days between my copy of R.K. Narayan’s biography and a stack of novels. I don’t know what it’s doing on ...






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Brent crude (a bbl) Rs2,488
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