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He put the Eiffel Tower in a bottle! - Dt( 2008-05-07 00:00:00 )
Jamnagar (Gujarat), May 7 (IANS) He runs a small stationary shop, but in his spare time Alpesh Kansara is a "bottle art magician" as his co-villagers call him. He creates tiny models of grand building  more ...

Pay up or else... a shop owner's mantra to get back dues - Dt( 2008-05-05 00:00:00 )
Ranchi, May 5 (IANS) A betel shop owner here has come up with an innovative idea of getting back his dues - displaying the list of defaulters, including the names of some well-off people, and the amo  more ...

Rahul's tours focus on membership drive, training of youth - Dt( 2008-04-28 00:00:00 )
Kanker (Chhattisgarh), April 28 (IANS) While Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's attempts to woo the Dalit and tribal vote bank have been in the media glare, what is less known is that he has been strengthenin  more ...

Indian artists can live on art alone as market booms - Dt( 2008-04-28 00:00:00 )
By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Artist Abani Sen, one of the earliest modern masters, was more popular as 'mastermoshai', or teacher, than as an artist. His home was crammed with  more ...

India's rocket goes into space with 10 satellites - Dt( 2008-04-28 00:00:00 )
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), April 28 (IANS) The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C9 lifted off successfully with 10 satellites - two Indian and eight foreign - at 9.23 a.m. Monday from the Sati  more ...

Heat claims three lives in Gujarat - Dt( 2008-04-28 00:00:00 )
Ahmedabad, April 28 (IANS) Three people have died in a heat wave in Gujarat this weekend, officials said Monday. The deaths took place in Narmada, Bhavnagar and Rajkot districts. The meteorological  more ...

Want a lawyer? Try new website - Dt( 2008-04-28 00:00:00 )
Chennai, April 28 (IANS) With 30 million pending cases today in various lower and higher courts of India, a group of lawyers and law firms have set up a dedicated website for people to find lawyers. T  more ...

A panchayat's quest for perfection through quality management - Dt( 2008-04-28 00:00:00 )
Kozhikode, April 28 (IANS) A wall-sized citizen's charter put up outside a panchayat office is not a common sight. But the Nallalam-Cheruvannur panchayat office in Kerala's Kozhikode district also has  more ...

India should localise water resource management: expert - Dt( 2008-04-26 00:00:00 )
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) India has surplus water and one of the richest traditions of managing it, but still water crisis has reached a critical level in the country, says the author of a new book o  more ...

Summer beauty tips - straight off the kitchen shelf - Dt( 2008-04-25 00:00:00 )
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Before you turn to branded beauty kits and sundry suntan lotions to keep looking good in summer, try heading for the kitchen. Rose water, lemon juice, cucumber and yoghurt a  more ...

With 1.1 mn pending cases, Punjab and Haryana court moves for speedier trials - Dt( 2008-04-22 00:00:00 )
Chandigarh, April 22 (IANS) With the number of pending cases swelling to more than 1.1 million, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has decided to have speedier trials to dispose of long-pending ones.  more ...

Class 10 pass a `doctor' in Bengal's government health centre - Dt( 2008-04-17 00:00:00 )
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) You just need to clear the Class 10 examination to be a "doctor" at a primary health centre in Murshidabad district of West Bengal! At least this is how the primary health  more ...

Urban India backs legal shield for live-in couples - Dt( 2008-04-16 00:00:00 )
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Meena Bhattacharya, an executive with an MNC, says light-heartedly that her boyfriend Tanmay Mukherjee, with whom she lives in Noida on Delhi's outskirts, has not been throw  more ...

Don't wash your jeans often, fight climate change - Dt( 2008-04-15 00:00:00 )
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Want to do your bit to combat climate change? Wear your jeans at least thrice before washing them and then do so in cold water, don't use the dryer and not the iron either,  more ...

Two fashion weeks are unnecessary: Sabyasachi Mukherjee - Dt( 2008-04-11 00:00:00 )
By Shweta Thakur Mumbai, April 11 (IANS) This could be surprising, coming from one of India's most talked about designers. Sabyasachi Mukherjee says the fashion world is a shallow one and that glob  more ...

Over 1.25 mn sign online petition for Tibet dialogue - Dt( 2008-04-11 00:00:00 )
Dharamsala, April 11 (IANS) In what could be the fastest growing online petition, people across the world - from Rio de Janeiro to Rome and New York to New Delhi - have signed up to mount pressure on  more ...

Capturing India of 1990s with potboiler of a book - Dt( 2008-04-11 00:00:00 )
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) It was the India of the 1990s. The days of 'licence raj', when so much dirty money changed hands due to the government's restrictions on business, were drawing to an end. T  more ...

IPL, or Indian Photography League? - Dt( 2008-04-11 00:00:00 )
By Nikhil Krishnamurthy Over the past few days, a major controversy has erupted over the terms and conditions set by the Indian Premier League (IPL), particularly with reference to the prohibition  more ...

'The Silent Raga' - a finely told story of everyday humiliation - Dt( 2008-04-07 00:00:00 )
By Papri Sri Raman Book: "The Silent Raga"; Author: Ameen Merchant; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 452, Price: Rs.395. A man's rare insight into a woman's plight? A sentence i  more ...

Google Earth helps youth to trace lost home - after 13 years - Dt( 2008-04-05 00:00:00 )
Agra, April 5 (IANS) Orphaned at seven, he ran away from home to escape the tyranny of his uncle and was taken care of by an affluent Muslim family in northern India. Now at 20, Rakesh Singh has throu  more ...