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A lot of senior citizens in the City are finding themselves cast out of their homes by their children and having to fend for themselves post retirement.
Senior citizens form 10 per cent of the Indian population. According to statistics by several NGOs, most senior citizens are victims of depression. But, Postnoon’s visit to India’s second senior citizens fair depicted a completely different picture altogether. Thousands of senior citizens from various districts of AP visit this fair. Their intentions vary from getting [...]
Elders Mela 2012 is a four-day event being held at the Zoroastrian Club. It aims to provide senior citizens in the State with a chance to attend seminars, debates, counselling and interact with others. They say that old age is one’s second childhood. This could be seen at the Zoroastrian Club where Elders Mela 2012 [...]
‘We will not take a break’, insist OU students. Tension born out of apprehension about breaking violence prevails on the campus as police are determined to stop them from stepping out in groups.
However, the MMTS services in the City stand suspended for the next 24 hours. A bandh-weary Telangana today cold-shouldered the 48-hour bandh call given by the T-JAC yesterday. All districts reported normal life and works. Hyderabad City, hosting the world biodiversity meet totally ignored the bandh call today. However, most incoming trains to Hyderabad from [...]
Their passion for photography and the lure of a better career, both financially and creatively, has several IT professionals chucking their jobs to befriend the camera.
After being in hibernation for a while, the T-students are all set to get back into action and turn Hyderabad into a battlefield to meet their demand for a separate Telangana. On September 27, Chalo Assembly will be held. On September 30 it is Chalo Tank Bund and finally on October 1 is Chalo Biodiversity. [...]
While work is on in full swing to prep the City, statues that were vandalised last year are left ignored
Changes in the DNB CET scoring has created a furore among medical students. They claim that they were not informed about this earlier.
GHMC health department has belatedly swung into action, desperately trying to do what it can to keep communicable diseases at bay during the world conference.
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
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