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Labour pains, broken ceramics The blue skies of the pristine beauty, Yanam, suddenly turned dark with smoke billowing out of burnt vehicles and machinery. The blue seas of the Bay of Bengal bled. The ceramic hearts broke. The shrill attack on KC Chandrasekhar, 53, president of operations and maintenance of Regency Ceramics, by workers of [...]
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He yelled out loudly and the echo reverberated in the well of the blue quadrilateral Rod Laver Arena of Melbourne Park interspersing the tensed up and hissing breath of the audience, flung his racquet into air, removed his T shirt and slowly fell flat stretching his arms and legs. Then he rose, moved around the [...]
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Preliminary police probe into the death of a family of four in RK Nagar of Malkajgiri yesterday brought out the story of an illicit relationship and quarrel that finally led to the murder of three and suicide of one. A Nageshwar Rao 62,his wife A Vijaya Laxmi, 55, their son Balaji, 32, and his wife [...]
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If cakes are your weakness, then the cupcake festival at Deli 9 is where you should be headed. On display here are a large variety of cupcakes. The best in the lot is the Red velvet cupcake; the look and the texture is just as the name suggests, and it tastes heavenly! If you want [...]
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The Disaster Down Under finally came to a close at Adelaide with Team India thoroughly thumped. It is not so much the defeat but the manner in which India catapulted which angers. These cricketers win so much admiration back home that they are almost demi-gods. They now owe an apology to the millions of passionate [...]
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Bordering on Dadaism, Surrealism and Fluxus, Transgressive Art is the sum of destruction The aim of transgressive art is to outrage or violate basic morals and sensibilities. It was well established by the end of 1960s when artists resorted to scandalising middle-class morality by ‘transgressing’ moral boundaries. They began to push moral limits, in search [...]
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Dr Srividya Raghavan Marketing has often been compared to a battlefield. Positioning is considered an effective marketing strategy for protecting and expanding the territories of brands, thereby garnering market-share. Remember when Al Ries and Jack Trout, in their popular book on Positioning, called it the Battle for your Mind? The idea of positioning itself has [...]
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A team of doctors from abroad has visited the conjoined twins in the Neeloufer Hospital and conducted detailed examinations. Results are awaited but hopes are high Hyderabad: The unending plight of conjoined twins Veena-Vani, who are lodged at the Neeloufer Children’s hospital in the city, may well be over, thanks to the efforts of the [...]
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Fifteen years ago this lake was a picnic spot and it nurtured umpteen species of bird and waterfowl. Today it is being throttled to death by encroachers and passive people all around. Bang in the middle of the City is a lake surrounded by a star hotel, high rise apartments, a popular function hall and [...]
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Alight here for ‘Splash’ and ‘BreezeR’ While the TDP is trying to invoke the slumbering ‘Sree Shakti’ to counter growing liquor sale, the Kiran government has silently given make orders to two distilleries for bottling ‘Splash,’ an alcohol-laced drink specially aimed at the women and young, it is learnt. Gemini Distilleries of Goa and United [...]
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