 | Guess who is the most popular man in Thambaipatti village in Madurai district? An assistant engineer from the Tami Nadu Water and Drainage department (TWAD).
Mariappan is only second to P. Kakkan, the local independence hero, in popularity,... More |
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 | Zambia has urged the US to rescind its decision not to allow their citizens to bring trophies from elephant-hunting safaris. Zambia maintains that the elephant trophy-hunting is key to the conservation of elephants.
A Zambian delegation has met... More |
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 | Indian American astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams, the first person of Indian descent to take a walk in space, is getting ready to go on another stroll around her home in the stars next week.
Flight Engineer Williams and International Space... More |
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 | Perfumes, eau de toilettes and perfumed deodorants should not be kept for too long because the scents can "go off", says an expert.
When that occurs, they no longer smell as they did when newly purchased and sometimes even have an unpleasant... More |
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 | Australia's giant prehistoric animals were killed off by the clubs and spears of Aborigines rather than by climate change, a researcher has claimed.
Gavin Prideaux said the fossil record showed that the megafauna - giant marsupials the size of... More |
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 | Pakistan calls it an "Indian invasion", but welcomes it. Come winter, sambars, or Indian swamp deers, will stray across the international border to escape heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the western Himalayas.
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 | The devastation caused to Internet lines by the Taiwan earthquake before the dawn of 2007 left millions across Asia cut off from email and websites for days.
In a world where high-speed connections have been taken for granted, the event has... More |
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 | Uncertainty again loomed over holding of the Jan 31-Feb 11 Kolkata Book Fair with the Calcutta High Court Thursday halting all construction work at Maidan greens in the heart of the city till it announces its final verdict Jan 29.
The holding of... More |
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 | School is a happy proposition now for many children in Madhya Pradesh. No longer do they have to stay with parched throats or go without using toilets the whole day.
In Dhar district, where many children - particularly girls - had stopped going... More |
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 | A 32-year-old Indo-Canadian woman was among 120 animal rights activists who stripped naked in a demonstration in Barcelona to protest against the killing of chinchilla rodents for making fur coats.
Anita Singh, who works for People for the... More |
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