Poor Mirabai Chanu! What a weight rested on her, as one point three billion pinned all their hopes on her weight lifting shoulders!What a shame, that we, with the worlds second largest population, are still tra
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It was a huge ad in the newspaper, not just a page, but two; it showed pictures and prices of scores of items that were going at a discount. There were beard trimmers going at two hundred and forty nine bucks,
Twas just before the Covid wave a friend called, Ive got tickets for the IPL matches, want to come Bob? You crazy? I asked him, Ive got my old TV and where else can you watch 18 balls being bowled per over
IANS An Indian organisation paid nearly Rs 16.5 crore on average as cost of data breach in 2021 to date, an increase of 17.85 per cent from last year in the remote work and learning times, a new IBM study sh
This happened before Covid shut schools down.The call came while I was out. Please come and hear your song. It was the headmaster of a school. He had asked me some time ago, to write the school anthem and I had
Fr Dr P S Varghese “Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.” American Jewish writer Max Leo Forman (1909-1
Quite often I see an apology in the newspapers for some news item wrongly reported, or see a lawyer movie where the slick lawyer says, Im sorry your honour! But in both cases, I know it was either the fear of l-
Fr. Dr. P S Varghese Principal MGM College, Dimapur Good morning to all! Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the legendary leader of the United Kingdom, was once described as: “Success is not final, fai
Its a small showpiece dagger I hold in my hand, a present from the Mayor of Batangas in the Philippines, when Id visited the country many years ago. He was a young mayor and I heard quite a gangster and war lor
Its a small showpiece dagger I hold in my hand, a present from the Mayor of Batangas in the Philippines, when Id visited the country many years ago. He was a young mayor and I heard quite a gangster and war lor
My wife, a medical doctor, is quite strict about the sweets I am allowed to have, and when she does give me permission, laughs as I take it, sit on my favourite rocking chair, and relish the delicacy!Why are yo
Watching movies centred around old kingdoms, kings and courts, one is intrigued by the role played by courtiers who surround the king, or the ladies in waiting, bowing and curtsying a queen!But, their role was-
IANS Startup funding at stratospheric levels is following the Bigger Fool Theory, experts say. The rarified echelons of Higher Finance follow the Cardinal Principle of Advanced Investment Management. &
Laws like sedition and abetment to suicide are used conveniently by the police to harass the public. And because cunning people know such laws can be used to land you in jail, they threaten you with them. I am
D C Pathak IANS The long speech of President Xi Jinping at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the occasion of the CPC's centenary celebration on July 1 and the address of US President Joe Biden to the-
Pelezoto Pius Kikhi Dimapur With reference to the order on testing of healthcare workers who have not been vaccinated, every 15 days as and when they report for duty, in local dailies dated July 14, 2
D.C. Pathak IANS The long speech of President Xi Jinping at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the occasion of the CPC's centenary celebration on July 1 and the address of US President Joe Biden to the join
What part of the car causes the most accidents?Ans: The nut that holds the wheel!Opened the newspaper this morning and found a whole supplement devoted to cars so I said, well if you can't beat them, join them
A wise old bird sat on an oak-The more he saw, the less he spoke,The less he spoke, the more he heard,Lord make me like that wise old bird.-AnonFor two weeks Id stopped carrying my phone. My friends thought I w
Even as I hear the Supreme Court calling sedition, a colonial law, I also hear that a hundred farmers have been slapped with the same colonial law for protesting!I agree, nobody likes his car stopped on a highw
