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  1. A Chennai Wedding That Makes A Difference

    Posted by Bhavana Upadhyaya
    / May 31, 2012 / 6 Comments
    I was thinking that morning that this is one wedding I want to attend, one wedding that I would cherish attending, where I would delight in giving the wedding gift. I don’t enjoy weddings. I am not into competitive dressing, competitive jewellery showcasing, or latest gossip, or assessing if bride...
    Posted in Chennai, Personal
    Tagged adoption, bhavana upadhyaya, dhana, matrimony, social cause, thilak,

  2. Anand, champion of the world

    Posted by
    / May 30, 2012 / 1 Comment
    At the same time that Viswanathan Anand was battling Boris Gelfand of Israel at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in the World Championship, the Indian team was playing in the Asian Nations Cup in China. The team, consisting of Grandmasters like P Harikrishna, K Sasikiran, Parimarjan Negi won the...

  3. Italian marines granted bail

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    / May 30, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The two Italian marines, accused of killing two Kerala fishermen, have been granted bail by the Kerala High court on surety of Rs 1 crore each. Two Indians need to give guarantee and the marines have been ordered not to leave Kerala Kochi without the permission of the court. They...

  4. Chennai faces fuel shortage

    Posted by
    / May 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The fuel shortage in Chennai continues for the third consecutive day. Petrol pump owers say the shortage is due to lack of supplies from oil companies. Many petrol bunks in the city are in fact shut and the ones that still have supplies are rationing the amount of fuel they...

  5. Don’t approve bauxite mining in Vizag

    Posted by
    / May 27, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Kala Committee has failed to visit the bauxite mining areas of Visakhapatnam as the local tribals organized a bandh against its visit. The only visit that was made by them to the area was in a helicopter, that too reportedly funded by the mining companies from whom the committee...

  6. What is the core problem?

    Posted by
    / May 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    I think the issue of corruption is not about following procedures, or going overboard with procedures. That is to understand the recent happenings in a reductionist sense. If one can remember, overhaul of time-tested government procedures was started in late 1990s, with the aid and support of external agencies, especially...

  7. Blame it on YSR & Son

    Posted by
    / May 25, 2012 / 1 Comment
    The gloves are off. And the Congress gameplan is now clear. Blame it on YSR. And his son. If the resignation letter of Excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana is anything to go by, this is the strategy worked out by the Congress leadership in Delhi. Allow CBI to net half a...

  8. Question Time CBI for Jagan

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    / May 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is 10:30 am. Jagan is setting out on his election campaign trail in Macherla in Guntur district. It is hot as hell, the mercury hovering around 43 degrees. But that’s not the worry for YSR Congress party leaders and workers. Occupying their mindspace is the thought that in exactly...

  9. N D Tiwari and his Hyderabad connections

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    / May 22, 2012 / Leave a comment
    If Narayan Dutt Tiwari had a choice, he would never give his DNA sample for a test. But May 26 it would be, when complying with the orders of the Delhi High court, he would have to provide his DNA sample. This is after 31-year-old Rohit Shekhar’s relentless legal battle...

  10. Is GVMC really logged on to Vizag’s problems?

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    / May 22, 2012 / Leave a comment
    This site (gvmc.gov.in) appears to be made more for the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) rather than for the public for whom the corporation exists. GVMC collects taxes from us and is supposed to serve the citizens of Vizag. Its website should therefore be informative and designed to help the public. While...

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