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Boiling milk for long robs it of nutrients

It’s a practice in all homes where food safety and hygiene are important, to boil milk long and thoroughly to kill off any lurking bacteria. But it’s not what nutritionists recommend. Boiling milk f

Ex-staffer opens fire at colleagues

An employee of a steel company in Sathankadu in north Chennai, who was sacked by the new owner of the firm, walked into the office on Saturday evening and opened fire alleging that a former colleague

Will CBI identify G.J. Reddy Sir?

“G. J. Reddy Sir,” is the code name of a man who was powerful enough to silence government servants all the way from the mining fields of Bellary to the Belekeri port of Karwar while iron ore was sm

Team to assess Polavaram works

Rajya Sabha member Palvai Govardhan Reddy on Sunday said that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has agreed to depute a Central team to assess issues relating to faulty designs, economic viability and the

Mysterious terror duo stumps cops

Several arrests of people with alleged terror links have established that terror sleeper cells exist in the city. But the involvement of “specialists” from Maharashtra, assisting their colleagues in B

4 workers fall to death as tank scaffolding collapses

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Four workers were killed and two others seriously injured after the iron scaffolding erected to carry out maintenance work atop a 100-feet overhead water tank collapsed in Ashok Nagar in Lawspet here

Scoring in JEE does not ensure IIT seat

In the JEE (advanced), JEE (main) merit list will play a decisive role since only top 1,50,000 rankers in JEE (Main) will be allowed to appear for JEE (advanced). These top rankers will include studen

Our vote base intact: Kharge

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Veteran Congress leader and Union labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge is a happy man. His stock has been rising ever since he and other Congress leaders from Karnataka at the Centre succeeded in gettin

Panel cracks down on child trafficking, files FIR

A majority of the children begging on the City roads could be victims of human trafficking and forced displacement by an organised mafia, which thrives on the business of child beggary. In a first eve

A silent spectator of changing Kochi

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History is asleep at the beautiful waterfront-facing Rajendra Maidan in Kochi. In fact there is hardly anyone who can recognise the statue located in one corner of the large open ground that is distin

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.