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The city of Chennai, erstwhile Madras, is all set to celebrate its 369th birthday on August 22, 2008. For, it was on this day in 1639 that a sliver of land where Fort St George is located, was handed over by the local Nayak rulers to the East India Company.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed 74-year-old Japanese woman Emiko Yamada to take custody of her 25-day-old grandaughter Manji, born to an Indian surrogate mother.
Rampant cynicism and pessimism pervades the national scene as we celebrate our 61st Independence Day, essentially due to the leadership vacuum at the top.
Three months old snow leopard 'Emba' inspects his enclosure during his first outing on August 19, 2008 at the zoo in Rostock, northeastern Germany. 'Emba' is the first offspring of the snow leopards living at the Rostock zoo since 1989. (AFP)
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Bahrain-based Indian entrepreneur Ravi Pillai has taken over the management of the New Millenium School in Manama that is promoted by the Delhi Public Schools Society.
Britain-based Punjabi singer Mona Singh, the daughter of noted Punjabi singer musician Channi Singh, says it is an uphill task for a woman to carve a niche in the male-dominated British bhangra music industry.
A biotech company has developed a method to measure the amount of hepcidin, a hormone that regulates dietary iron absorption and distribution in the body.
Eating oily fish once a week may reduce age-related macular degeneration which is the major cause of blindness and poor vision in adults in western countries and the third highest cause of global blindness, according to a study.
A leading international space scientist says there is now clear evidence of life on Mars but that American authorities are hesitating from announcing it for political reasons.
Hundreds of insects remain underwater. But how do they manage to breathe? A research team at the University of Alberta has found that they create tiny air bubbles around them.
Every inch of space along the banks of Kerala's Punnamada lake was swarming with people, including tourists, as the state's famed annual boat festival kicked off on Saturday with an array of the over 100-foot-long snake boats and smaller boats taking part.
Though laptops and wireless Internet connections are considered inseparable tools for the new-age executives, they are spoiling their holidays, says a psychologist.
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