MYSORE: Continuing the tradition of chief ministers refraining from visiting Chamarajanagar town was D V Sadananda Gowda who on Friday was on an inspection visit of relief works at Kollegal and Hannur. The prevailing belief is that incumbent ministers visiting the district will lose their position within six months. The accursed tag is due to the fact that five chief ministers were unseated after their visit to Chamarajanagar, which is...
10:17 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Hyderabad: In a brutally shocking incident, a man in Guntur district along with his parents, allegedly beat up his six-month pregnant wife with an iron rod on the stomach causing her to undergo a miscarriage on Sunday. Police say the family, blinded by superstition and faith in a baba, believed that she was pregnant with a girl child and hence decided to terminate the pregnancy. The victim claims that this...
12:09 PM, Apr 03, 2012
BANGALORE: Month:11. Date:11. Year:2011. Couples, who became parents on Friday, were jubilant as the birth of their child was considered auspicious by many astrologers. It might be true, for their children were catapulted into instant fame by extensive media coverage. The fallout of such cosmic alignment of numbers was that city-based obstetricians were busy and in their surgical theatres throughout Friday with Bangalore reporting nearly 100 deliveries. It was a...
09:01 AM, Nov 12, 2011
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I have always been keen to be at a holy place at the time of special occasions like the full moon or the eclipse. Watching ...
12:21 PM, Jun 16, 2011
New Delhi: Of all the purges known to mankind, solar eclipses rank high in popular superstition as the perpetrators of all things evil. Four solar and two total moon eclipses will be observed in different parts of the world, including in India, in 2011. The first solar eclipse, that will take place on January 4, will begin at 06:40 GMT and will be visible from Europe, the Middle East and...
01:50 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Goyla (Haryana): Over 40 per cent of the world's underweight children below the age of five live in India. Around 50 per cent of preschool children in India are underweight and stunted. But a small village, Goyla, in Haryana is now struggling its way out of the very clutches of malnutrition. Three-year-old Tanu was born severely malnourished but one cannot imagine that she was like that after watching her run...
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2010 begins with a bang but there is a slight dampener this time. ...
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