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SPORTS: Temporary marina for Ocean Race
Kochi, Aug. 29 Ocean Blue Marinas and Boat Haven, Mumbai, will build temporary marina for the berthing of world’s fastest racing yachts during their stopover at Kochi Port. ...

From Life

HUMAN RESOURCES: Making diversity work
There’s a lot to profit from a workplace that is inclusive. A look at some of the people who are making this happen in a special way.. Tell me a job that you can do without using computers, I shall give that to you,” said a recruiter ...

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL: Wild Turkey
Discovering Turkey on its trains, buses and its ‘motorcycle’ taxi. If you can stay out of taxis on a foreign holiday, you may have enough money left to get home again. On a recent trip to Turkey, Krishnan and I rode the Istanbul rail, ...

HEALTH: For sound sexual health
Fitness expert Bharat Savur answers readers’ queries. What are the best foods that one should include in a regular diet that takes care of body needs? Also, how does one maintain good sexual ...

MUSIC & DANCE: Birdsong and… a kutcheri
Walk into this open-air Carnatic concert, reverberating with the voices of children raised in joy and confidence, on the first Sunday of every month.. It was the first Sunday of February 2006 and there was high excitement among a group of young ...

CINEMA: Boy, oh boy!
Hindi cinema regains glory with well-packaged films making it big at the box office.. August has been the saving of Bollywood. Both Singh Is Kinng, and Bachna Ae Haseeno have trumped the box office. With the success of ...

READYMADE GARMENTS: In your jeans
Check out the styles and pick your pair. Slim Fit: Just when we thought designers couldn’t possibly shrink their super-slender denim by another millimetre, along comes a little relief. For sure, stovepipe, cigarette and legging-like ...

EDUCATION: MBA vendors
They are studying to be corporate executives of the future, but a part of their training involves selling like the street vendors do. And so, one recent day in Mumbai saw about 250 first-year students of the NITIE Business School selling ...

CINEMA: Heart attacks in Hollywood
Those of us who love commercial cinema know the starring role played by heart attacks in the general plot… right from providing the turning point to ending it all, heart attacks have long been a scriptwriter’s dream ...

EDUCATION: It pays to study
Schools in the US are offering money to encourage students to do well. This has expectedly evoked mixed feelings among educators, parents and the general public. An article in WSJ says: “Advocates say incentives are an ...

INTERNET: Virtual entrepreneurs
Starting every Monday at 9 p.m. from September 8, DiscoverY Channel will feature Download: The true Internet Story, a four-part series which traces the Web’s rise from obscurity to global ...

LIFESTYLE: In drier times
If merry-making is directly linked to money-making then the chips are truly down for the Irish. A DPA report wonders whether Ireland is losing its taste for alcohol, thanks to recessionary woes. As many as 400 pubs have closed in the past year, ...





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