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A useful waste of time?
Latest research says video games can have hidden benefits, says GEETA PADMANABHAN

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BEAUTY BASICS
Look cool this summer
Here’s a simple regimen to take care of your skin when the temperature soars this summer

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Just joking

“Awful!” the other answered. “He showed up in his 1932 Rolls Royce.”

“Wow! That’s a very expensive classic car. What’s so bad about that?”

The disappointed college student replied, ...

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WHAT WOMEN WANT: EXPECTING A BABY? HERE’S WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
GDM monitoring essential

The Health Department has introduced a new concept called ‘maternity picnics’ in its network of 1,300-odd Primary Health Centres (PHC) in the State to attract more pregnant women for safe deliveries. We ask doctors, a physiotherapist a nd a lecturer on what expectant mothers should know to have a safe and healthy pregnancy.

The result of a healthy pregnancy begins in adolescence. A vast majority of Indian pregnant women are anaemic due to improper nutrition during adolescence. Folic acid supplements can be taken from adolescence itself. Low birth babies are due ...

Eating healthy is important. A diet rich in whole foods with good colour mix of vegetables, fruits and lots of fluids is important. Add nuts, seeds, pulses and green leafy vegetables liberally in your diet. Sprinkle wheat germ in soups and ...

Gaining the right amount of weight, exercising during pregnancy — to be able to control pregnancy-induced changes such as backache, cramps, swelling of the limbs, labour and faster post-natal recovery to handle the demands of the ...

For the best pregnancy outcome the age of the mother and her psychological and physical well-being is important. Consanguineous marriages result in babies with congenital anomalies and a low IQ. Pre-conception counselling is important. If ...

His collection of CDs, EPs, LPs and MP3s number about 8000. My contribution to it is immense. No, I don’t mean I bought them. By not complaining about the money spent, I have indirectly helped him build this collection. Given that music ...

Pavan Kaul’s Bhram An Illusion sounds like a threat at the outset, and quite proves itself to be so, over the course of its six tracks. With music by Pritam and the new Bollywood director duo Siddharth-Suhas, it ...

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Peppered with delights
Eating out Peppers on Chamiers Road is a new restaurant that specialises in vegetarian North Indian and Chinese food

Television

Are they for real?
NatGeo channel will air three special programmes

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The facts of fiction
Vikram Sampath’s book on Mysore royalty is a non-historian’s objective telling

• Mars & Venus
• Recognition for Radisson GRT

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