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Check gold purity for free

Check gold purity for free

| May 24, 2013 | 0 Comments

Buy gold ornaments, drive to the Metrology department, test for purity and weight, and catch the scruff of the cheat, if you have been cheated.

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No fuel adulteration in Andhra Pradesh… apparently

No fuel adulteration in Andhra Pradesh… apparently

| May 23, 2013 | 0 Comments

Is what Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has to say. Yet everybody knows fuel adulteration is common in AP. This ironical situation arises from the BIS’s faulty test standard, thereby giving a long rope to adulterators.

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Students flock foreign varsities

Students flock foreign varsities

| May 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

Despite the high cost of attendance and shrinking job opportunities, degrees from foreign universities are worth the price of admission, say students from Hyderabad. Hyderabad: Despite rising tuition fees, shrinking funding options, tougher visa restrictions and rapidly disappearing job opportunities, studying abroad is still the dream for a majority of students here in the City. The [...]

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55 acres, 600 inmates and 13 guards; that’s the state of affairs at Erragadda mental institute

55 acres, 600 inmates and 13 guards; that’s the state of affairs at Erragadda mental institute

| May 21, 2013 | 2 Comments

Institute of Mental Health in Erragadda has a serious security lapse — not the making of the faculty but of outside elements — owing to government apathy.

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Be careful if you buy drinking water in Hyderabad

Be careful if you buy drinking water in Hyderabad

| May 14, 2013 | 0 Comments

With new reports emerging everyday declaring City’s ground water unfit to drink, demand for packaged drinking water is rising. But how safe is it?

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IRCTC continues to derail travel plans

IRCTC continues to derail travel plans

| May 13, 2013 | 1 Comment

The IRCTC website continues to remain every rail passenger’s worst nightmare realised.

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Mother can’t be replaced

Mother can’t be replaced

| May 12, 2013 | 0 Comments

Here’s an inspiring story of a daughter who, at 63, takes care of her bed-ridden mother aged 84. She did the same for her father when he was alive.

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Bringing children back to school

Bringing children back to school

| May 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

With a belief that a teacher’s role extends beyond school, the forum is pushing for ‘non-negotiables’. Policies that were far remo­ved from the practicalities of the classroom lead to the formation of a group that is today known as the Teachers Forum for Child Rights. What started as a handful of like-minded individuals coming together [...]

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Erasing nightmares, essaying dreams

Erasing nightmares, essaying dreams

| May 6, 2013 | 0 Comments

The campaign has been yielding results with people becoming more and more watchful against child marriages. The modern day Ashwamedha yagnam came to a grand conclusion on Sunday in the Marpally mandal of Ranga Reddy district. If in the Vedic ritual, a chosen horse would be set loose by a king to wander in the [...]

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Barriers to adopting a baby in Andhra Pradesh

Barriers to adopting a baby in Andhra Pradesh

| May 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

Child Welfare officials explain the challenges of the adoption process in AP

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