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The Union Government's move to introduce prenatal testing to detect genetic  flaws is a welcome move in the direction of child health care in view of the rising cases of child birth chromosomal and genetic  disorders. The disorders account…
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Vinayshil Gautam For expectations, May 2014 was high water-mark. Rarely had one seen such high expectations by so many people who were so varied among themselves. This was good augury. However, life has predictable cycles: High…
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Yudhvir Singh Lamba Bharatiya Swami Vivekananda, the great Indian philosopher, great patriotic, philanthropist and social reformer was born at 3 Gour Mohan Mukherjee Street, Kolkata  on Monday, 12th January 1863, during the eve of Makara…
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Kalyani Shankar Thursday's Presidential election in Sri Lanka was perhaps one of the most keenly fought ones in the past two decades. Tamil Nadu was watching the poll closely as the result may impact the future of its brethren, the Lankan…
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Dear Editor, Michelle Cliff's novel 'Abeng'set in post-British Jamaica, where the protagonist's mother recalls that the only thing she learnt at school was "a silly poem 'Daffodils'". I was quite surprised by these remarks, but on a second…
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Dear Editor, While India as whole develops in bulk some places don't even get a bit. Equality as we all talk of lacks its existence. Narh Balnoi a far flung Village in Tehsil Mendhar of District Poonch has no sign of development instead it…
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Dear Editor, With the type of politics the Congress has been playing on the 'terror boat' issue, Pakistan's Government does not need any better argument to rubbish the aborted terror plan. The Congress and its fellow-travellers are damaging…
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Berlin: Over 35,000 people holding "We are Charlie" placards have marched through the eastern German city of Dresden in a counter rally against the recent anti-Islam demonstrations, almost double the number that participated in the last…
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Washington: NASA's venerable Kepler space telescope's count of exoplanets has passed the magic 1,000 mark, including eight new planets and 544 candidate planets. Of more than 1,000 verified planets found, eight are less than twice…
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New York:  Just a cup of blueberries every day could help reduce blood pressure and arterial stiffness, both of which are associated with heart disease. "Our findings suggest that regular consumption of blueberries could potentially delay…
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