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Tri-Services all-women world sailing expedition from India prepares to make history

This historic expedition, the first of its kind, marks a significant milestone in India’s maritime history.

Why are Indians running away from India?

Quite a few years ago I had given a lecture at my alma mater IIT Kanpur. I asked the students if I had the power to grant them a US green card how many would like to migrate.  In the auditorium of around 200 students most raised their hands. This pursuit of excellence can be helped by the constant exposure of students to lectures by achievers. Students at an impressionable age once inspired can do wonders in later life. 

An agenda for the nation: Streamline business cycle; unleash entrepreneurial enthusiasm

We must also insulate enterprises from pressure and extortion by local power elites, which adversely distorts factory pricing and ultimately adds a burden to the consumer price. This will also enable enterprises to maintain healthy returns within the fixed MRP system, especially for FMCG

Kashmir: A shark-infested 'Heaven on Earth'!

Despite all my patriotic feelings, I do not recommend a visit to Kashmir. It is ill-organized and ill-prepared to receive the rush of tourists. It lacks elementary infrastructure, basic amenities, and essential facilities at present. Worse, the tourists are always at the mercy of the local mafia.

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Breaking down barriers; Bangladeshi transgenders to pursue higher studies

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Remembering Ritwik Ghatak on his 45th death anniversary: A filmmaker’s filmmaker

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Once beggars, they are now picking up vocational skills in a reformed life

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Couple tie knot, exchanges garlands underwater in Bay of Bengal

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Nepal bans two Indian mountaineers for 10 years

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Modi gives new life to Arunachal's local art

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Promoting Nepal's cultural tourism - through Miss Nepals

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St Stephen's invites Bangladeshi students for its bachelor's programme

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Beauty of Kashmir mesmerises Bollywood filmmakers

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Winds of change: New documentary portrays Dalai Lama's role in gender reform

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Pakistani civil society opposes filming execution of child rapist

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Khemchand Prakash: The man who gave new direction to Hindi film music

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Michael Madhusudan Dutt's 197th birth anniversary being observed

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Once beggars, these kids aspire to be doctors and soldiers

Around 500 children who were once seen begging, ragpicking and fighting on the streets in Rajasthan's Churu district have now transformed into serious students and are attending regular classes, singing patriotic songs and dreaming high to serve the nation as military personnel, police officers and doctors