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Do people ever recover from COVID-19?

'People who have diabetes or heart disease or high blood pressure seem to be more badly affected by the disease.' IMAGE: Medical workers get ready to treat patients suffering from COVID-19 at the......

Our nationalism is only in sentiment, not in behaviour

'Going by television debates, it is obvious that the overwhelming majority of middle class Indians are nationalistic when it comes to opposing slogans and when it comes to the unity and integrity......

Spelling Bee spells winning word WRONG, claim experts

'Knaidel', the word that won 13-year-old Indian-American Arvind Mahankali the Scripps National Spelling Bee crown, may have been wrongly spelled, Jewish linguists have claimed. Arvind, from New......

Indian girl wins spelling bee with 'cymotrichous'

Sukanya Roy adds another chapter to the Indian American success story at the National Spelling Bee. Suman Guha Mozumder reports For the fourth consecutive year, an Indian American was crowned the......

Indian American girl wins Spelling Bee

In her fourth appearance at the annual spelling marathon, a supremely-confident Kavya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kansas, breezed through to win the 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee competition,......

'18% GST on parathas, as they are not ready-to-eat'

The controversy over the goods and services tax (GST) rate on food products refuses to die. Now, the Gujarat-based authority of advance rulings (AAR) has ruled that 'parathas' would attract 18 per......

A Hungarian invention that helped the British in WWII

Tracing the early life of the humble ballpoint pen to its present. IMAGE: Modern folks would not even think of the ballpoint pen as an innovation. It seems to be an inexpensive writing instrument,......

Of funts, fakeaways, and Ninja loans

The turmoil in the world economy has done what economists and experts could not do for years -- pushing into the day-to-day life a healthy dose of financial jargon, a lot of which has even become......

How to provide for parents, kids and still save

Naval architect Jayanta Roy, 44, lives with his family in their Kolkata home. There's wife Rupa, 39, son Deepro, 10, and parents, Kalyan Kumar, 65, and Kana, 65. In October 2007, Kalyan had to be......

Mobile-blogging is poised to explode

When Merriam-Webster compiled a list of the most searched words of 2004, the word 'blog' (short for weblog) topped the charts.However, blogging's younger sibling, the mobile-blog, is rapidly......

Yuvraj Singh, India's Warrior Prince

'What I would love him to do most is to become a life coach and share his incredible story of struggle, success, and survival,' says marketing guru Sandeep Goyal. IMAGE: Yuvraj Singh will not be......

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Do people ever recover from COVID-19?

Our nationalism is only in sentiment, not in behaviour

Spelling Bee spells winning word WRONG, claim experts

Indian girl wins spelling bee with 'cymotrichous'

Indian American girl wins Spelling Bee

'18% GST on parathas, as they are not ready-to-eat'

A Hungarian invention that helped the British in WWII

Of funts, fakeaways, and Ninja loans

How to provide for parents, kids and still save

Mobile-blogging is poised to explode

Yuvraj Singh, India's Warrior Prince

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