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‘Am I not a citizen of India?’
An inner cry of a Dalit from the heartland of India Why I am asked about my caste when I go to the police? Am I not a citizen of India?” The father of one […]
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TIRICHY: THE LAND OF TRADITION
Situated on the banks of the river Cauvery,Tiruchirappalli, the forth largest city in the state was a citadel of the early Cholas which later fell to the Pallavas. But the Pallavas never really managed to […]
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IMF, World Bank urge China to reduce finance risk
BEIJING (TIP): The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are urging China to focus on controlling risks from rapidly rising debt due to its reliance on credit-fuelled growth. The comments add to warnings by […]
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RBI MOVES AWAY FROM SECTOR-SPECIFIC REFINANCE
MUMBAI (TIP)The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), decided to limit access to export credit refinance while compensating fully with a commensurate expansion of the market’s access to liquidity through a special term repo facility from […]
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ECB TAKES RAFT OF NEW STEPS TO AVOID DEFLATION
LONDON (TIP): The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday cut interest rates and took a raft of unconventional steps to prevent the 18-country eurozone from sliding into a bout of deflation that could kill off […]
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ROOF TILES TO HELP FIGHT AIR POLLUTION
WASHINGTON (TIP): An innovative and inexpensive way to fight air pollution has been developed — a roof tile coating that removes up to 97% of smog-causing nitrogen oxides. A team of University of California, Riverside’s […]
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Nasa’s human spaceflight program doomed to fail: Study
WASHINGTON (TIP): US space agency Nasa has been warned that its mission to send humans to Mars will fail unless its revamps its methods and draws up a clear, wellplanned strategy to conquer the red […]
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NEW LIGHT ON OCEAN WARMING, RAINFALL
NEW DELHI (TIP): For the past 30 years, it was believed that there is a threshold of temperature (29 degrees C) beyond which any increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) does not significantly affect the […]
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VOLUME OF ENCRYPTED EMAIL RISING AMID SPYING FEARS
NEW DELHI (TIP): The volume of email cloaked in encryption technology is rapidly rising as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other major Internet companies try to shield their users’ online communications from government spies and other […]
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KKR to be felicitated by state government
KOLKATA (TIP): The stage is set for the Eden Gardens to witness another round of wild celebrations when IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders are jointly felicitated by the state government and the Cricket Association of […]
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Hockey World Cup: India draw with Spain, earn 1st point
THE HAGUE: India earned their first point of the hockey World Cup when they drew their third Group A match against World No.10 Spain 1-1 at the GreenFields Stadium on June 5. After losing their […]
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Maria Sharapova beats Eugenie Bouchard to reach French Open final
PARIS (TIP): Maria Sharapova reached the final of the French Open for the third straight year at Roland Garros on June 5, digging deep to see off the youthful challenge of Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard. The […]
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Remembering a Technology visionary who reshaped India
The author pays a tribute to a former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, on his 23rd death anniversary. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by LTTE on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, in Tamil […]
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Top guns are on the way out, but not yet, says Nadal
PARIS (TIP): Rafael Nadal and the other members of the “big four” know that a new band of brash youngsters are on the horizon, but the Spaniard showed on May 29 they will not be […]
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CSK aim to minimize Maxwell effect
Chennai Super Kings and wine have one thing in common. Both get better with the passage of time. After having suffered a three-match losing streak just before the play-offs, CSK have upped the tempo at […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo joins Portugal training camp
LISBON (TIP): Real Madrid trio Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe and Fabio Coentrao joined Portugal’s World Cup training camp in Obidos on Thursday, bringing the squad up to its full contingent of 23 players. The three players […]
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Murray storms into French Open third round
PARIS (TIP): Seventh seed Andy Murray outclassed Australia’s Marinko Matosevic 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 to reach the French Open third round on Thursday, conceding only seven games in a two-hour masterclass. The pattern was set in […]
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WHEELING YOUR WAY TO GOOD HEALTH
Regarded as a great form of aerobic exercise, cycling is an activity any one can take up. It’s also the best way to take in the countryside… When it comes to your fitness, it’s time […]
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Ways to drink more water
While we all know water is essential to our basic wellbeing, not many of us can manage to gulp down more than a daily dose of one or two litres. Water, after all, is plain […]
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FOODS TO AVOID IF YOU WANT SIX PACK ABS
There are some foods that you must avoid if you want six pack abs. Generally, we tend to consume these foods out of laziness and availability, but you can’t be careless when you’re working on […]
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NATURAL WAYS FOR GREAT HAIR
Spending too much on expensive shampoos, but not getting the desired results that you see in TV ads? It is mostly possible and very common, because we see overly exaggerated results on TV, since these […]
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GURU ARJAN DEV
The martyrdom day of the Fifth Master of the Sikhs falls on June 1 Guru Arjan was the youngest son of Guru Ram Das and Mata Bhani. He was born at Goindwal on April 15, […]
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SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
WADAHANS, FIFTH MEHL, SECOND HOUSE: ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU: Deep within my inner being, is the longing to meet my Beloved; how can I find the Perfect Guru? […]
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A new beginning to the peace chapter
Despite reservations in some circles, most Pakistanis welcomed Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif’s decision to attend Mr Narendra Modi’s swearing-in as the new PM of India at the latter’s invitation. Although similar invitations were extended […]