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Make a wish and have a grand time
5 Children & It has what it takes to breathe magic into our hopeless, moneyed, jobs-a-plenty world. A world in which everything has a solution and the problem is exactly that — the demise of the good old wish. Based on E. Nesbit's ... More

EVENTS


Getting ready for Pongal
A scene at the Krishna Rajendra Market in Bangalore, where sugarcane is loaded as part of the Sankranti festival. Each stick costs Rs 10-12 against Rs 14-20 last year. The cane is brought from Tumkur and Kuniganl Taluk areas. ... More

Grand finale
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Majestic guest
Guruvayur Padmanabhan sets out from his camping place in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday to attend a public reception arranged for him at the Mahadeva Temple inParassala. Adored by elephant enthusiasts across the State as the most majestic temple ... More

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL


Applying pressure
Forget the course fee, even the process of applying to foreign universities is getting more and more expensive, what with increasing transcript charges, visa fees and the high cost of application forms, not to mention consultation charges. More

SPORTS


Where there is a will
Henry Wanyoike, a visually impaired athlete, playing cricket with children of Victoria Memorial School for Blind in Mumbai on Thursday. Wanyoike, the brand ambassador for `Seeing is Believing', spent an afternoon motivating the children of the ... More

TRENDS


Ride to the other world
Wearing of helmets by two-wheeler riders remains an exception rather than the rule even though approximately 34 per cent of road accidents reported last year involved two-wheelers. Reasons cited for avoiding helmets are lack of air circulation, ... More

BOOKS


A thousand definitions trapped in the alphabet
THE `longest real word' in the English language is said to be floccinaucinihilipilification, with 29 letters. "Defined as the act of estimating (something) as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741," educates Wikipedia. There ... More



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