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Do not go gentle into that good night

There is growing recognition that prevention strategies need to be tailored to each region and implemented in a culturally-sensitive manner.

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Why India needs to show some spine

In the area of IPR, public health and access to medicines, the government should consider its independence to be of the utmost importance.

Yoga as a ‘cancer cure’ is a claim without basis

Experts say the Minister for AYUSH’S statement should not add to the problem of late diagnosis.

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Love among the bookshelves

Every book collector moves from one book-filled room to another, inhabiting a private universe strung together by words.

Beyond the Caribbean

West Indies give cricket its truest validation, and the literature explaining why is vast and compelling.

The book in my hand

A weekly column on what well-known personalities are reading and planning to read. This week, it is Jay Panda and Srinath Raghavan.

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Assembly elections 2016

SRK's Fan is all set for release

Million-dollar market

Sreedhar Pillai

Seventh in the series about film distribution and exhibition. This week, we focus on Chengalpet, the highest collecting area in Tamil Nadu

Ki & Ka: role reversal or celebration of clichés?

Namrata Joshi

A perennially righteous film that reinforces the very stereotypes it was promising to break.

A still from the movie.

Hello Naan Pei Pesuren: Dial a ghost

Sudhir Srinivasan

It's horrifying how underutilised actors like Karunakaran, Vaibhav and VTV Ganesh, who were all quite good in Kappal, are in this film

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A carpet of riches

Ranjani Govind

Leaves discarded by trees annually are a rich source of compost, but for the most part, are treated like garbage: swept into piles and often set on fi

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Chennai
The Coimbatore Railway Junction on Saturday. —Photo: M. Periasamy
Coimbatore
JNUTA members have reacted strongly to the police action, calling it an attack on “ideological freedom”.
Delhi
Historic accord after 3 years of painstaking negotiations, HMRL has successfully persuaded the Wakf Board and the Imadul Trust and shifted the compound wall of the grave yard by about 15 feet inside.
Hyderabad
The liquor ban in the State has affected the Meetings, Incentive, Conference and Exhibition tourism segment the most.—FILE PHOTO
Kochi
Rescue workers at the site of the collapse in Kolkata on Friday.
Kolkata
Kozhikode
Madurai
Chaos prevailed at the toll gate near NITK, Surathkal, in Mangaluru on Friday after a bus crew reportedly objected to hike in toll fares. Photo: By Special Arrangement
Mangaluru
Mumbai
Puducherry
Products made by residents of Saigramam on display at the Museum auditorium in the city.— Photo: C. Ratheesh Kumar
Thiruvananthapuram
Tiruchirapalli
captivating show:A team of dancers from La Casita — Centre for Latin American Arts and Culture breaks into salsa dance as part of a flash mob on Saturday and (right) Enthusiasts reach out to enquire about dance classes.Photos: T. Singaravelou
Vijayawada
Basic amenities:Visakhapatnam MP K. Haribabu inspects a toilet facility in Visakhapatnam on Friday. —Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam
Visakhapatnam
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (right) meets with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly in Moscow, in this March 24, 2016 photo. Mr. Kelly, who recently completed a year-long mission on the International Space Station, bid adieu to NASA with which he had a 20-year-long association. He holds the U.S. record for most cumulative time in space — 520 days.

Veteran U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly says goodbye to NASA

IANS

Says the view of rainbow-hued Himalayan lakes and steady work helped him stay sane during his one-year ISS stay

Pioglitazone belongs to a class of drugs called thiazolidinediones that help to control blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. However, in 2005, a trial unexpectedly showed an imbalance in the number of bladder cancer cases with pioglitazone compared with placebo, researchers said.

Diabetes drug may raise bladder cancer risk: study

PTI

Compared with no thiazolidinedione use, pioglitazone associated with an overall 63 p.c. increased risk

Saturn's rings are seen during a ring plane crossing by the Cassini spacecraft. The moon Enceladus is the white dot above the sunlit rings.

Sustained eruptions on Saturn’s icy moon decoded

PTI

Enceladus, which probably has an ocean underlying its icy surface, has somehow managed to sprout multiple fissures along its south pole.

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