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Doctor’s dilemma: To practice or write
Hyderabad: The general perception about doctors is that their writing skills are confined to just scrawling illegible prescriptions. That’s true to a large part. However, the more enthusiastic among them indulge in…
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Anti-encroachment drive halted in J&K as it did more harm than good
The anti-encroachment drive in Jammu and Kashmir, which had rattled the whole of the Union Territory, adding yet another layer of uncertainty and anxiety among the people, has been apparently halted as the…
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Border Gavaskar Trophy: Indian bowlers on fire; Aussies paralysed by fear
India has retained the prestigious Border Gavaskar trophy with emphatic victories over the visiting Australian side. While there is plenty of reason for Indian fans to be cheerful, the pathetic display of…
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Azra Raza: A doctor who is poet at heart
Hyderabad: Her prefix is doctor. But it could well have been an author. Faced with a career choice, she picked up the stethoscope. But later she plunged for the pen as well.…
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Road to Amarnath cave shrine in high Himalayas in Kashmir on anvil
The Union Territory Government of Jammu and Kashmir has made public a proposal of construction of road to the cave shrine of Amarnath in the high Himalayas in Kashmir. The underlined idea is…
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Opinion: How Shinde group gets name, symbol of Shiv Sena
By Syed Ishaq, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia I was not surprised to hear that the Shinde group gets the name and symbol of Shiv Sena. However, the compulsion, helplessness of the…
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Allama Iqbal was a poet par excellence and Sufi
Asif Khan Recently I was watching a very short video. the speaker was talking about one of the couplets from Zarb-e-Kaleem, a long poem written by Allama Iqbal. It prompted me to…
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Between pleasure and purpose–A conversation with Damodar Mauzo
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest…
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India can mitigate risks like Joshimath instead of embracing them
By Feroze Varun Gandhi On Dec 24, 2009, a tunnel boring machine drilling into the mountain on which Joshimath resides punctured an aquifer ~3km away from Selang village – this resulted in…
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Tulasidas Balaram, Secunderabad-born football legend, passes away
Hyderabad: One of India’s legendary footballers Tulasidas Balaram is no more. He was born in Ammuguda in Secunderabad but after playing the major portion of his football career in Kolkata, he decided to…
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Cricketers in Hyderabad welcome SC appointment of Justice Rao to clean up the mess
For too long Hyderabad cricket has traveled along a dark tunnel. There seemed to be no end to the journey and even the BCCI was unable to find a solution. But now…
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Manik Sarkar: the veteran, CPI(M) hopes will change its fortunes in Tripura
Agartala: The communist party workers slouching against the walls of the party office in the sultry mid-day Tripura heat, stood up straight and stopped their chat session as the stern-faced, tall, bespectacled…
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J-K: Anti-encroachment drive, bulldozers may reopen fault lines of years gone by
For the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, Kashmir has started witnessing protests against the anti-encroachment drive in which bulldozer has become a symbol of state power.…
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Moved by earthquake in Turkey, Hyderabadi girl Khadija raises money for victims; writes heart wrenching poem
An eight-year-old girl Khadija Ahmed in Hyderabad has sold her three poems to 10 persons and raised Rs 3000 to donate the money for the earthquake affected people in Turkey. She was…
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Change of guard in Ladakh is not even a half-step, need is to take people on board
Amidst all the noise and analysis about the changes made in the Raj Bhavans across a dozen states and one Union Territory on Sunday, the most critical aspect remains out of focus,…
