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Viewers looking forward to downloading music, caller tunes and wallpapers of the Yash Raj film Thoda Pyar, Thoda Magic will be disappointed, with the Bombay High Court restraining the production house from creating third-party rights in the forthcoming film.

IN A bid to encourage more and more people to try ayurvedic treatment when indisposed, the B.C. Khanduri government has launched a time-bound health project, under which all the government-run health centres in Uttarakhand will have a separate 'Ayush-kendra' each, officials said.

Stone-crushing unit owners are waiting for a report by a government committee on the status of two quarries here. These quarries, some claim, fall within the Kumbh mela area where stone cutting is banned.

OFFICIALS OF Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board) seems to have learnt no lessons from the recent loss of bundles containing 'award blank sheets' of Board examinations during transit via train as well as the annual inflow of complaints of answer-sheets going missing even before their re-scrutiny.

The long wait for a mate is over for Rani, a 5-year-old female leopard, at Malsi Deer Park. Soon, she would share the company of Raja, a 6-year old leopard, who survived some near fatal injuries.

MEMBERS OF the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took out a procession from the party office, staged a demonstration at the district magistrate's office and handed over a memorandum to him on Friday to protest pathetic power scenario in the district for past one month and failure of the Central government to check the incidents of terrorism.

THE STANDING testimonials of ancient Indian architectural prowess and the pride of Shan-e-Awadh? 'Roomi Darwaza' and 'Bada Imambara' are now in safe hands.

While GODMAN Swami Amritha Chaitanya cools his heels in lock-up, many of his high-profile contacts are breaking into a sweat. The mystery of Santosh Madhavan's, the swami's real name, nexus with the high and mighty keeps getting murkier.

Coming down heavily on Minister of State for Home Shakeel Ahmed for his adverse comments about BJP leader L.K. Advani and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, the BJP on Saturday demanded Ahmed's immediate ouster from the Union Ministry and an apology from the Congress.

To the world, Karnataka and Bangalore are almost synonymous. The city's swanky buildings, its sizeable sophisticated English-speaking populace working at hundreds of IT and BPO companies enables the state to project itself as developed.

The police have arrested the relative of an Air India employee who was found murdered at his flat in Janakpuri area of west Delhi three days ago. Police said the accused had committed the murder with the intention of robbery. Another relative who helped him in the crime is absconding.

IN A shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl was kidnapped in an official vehicle and raped by two government officers posted at Bijaipur block in Gopalganj district on Friday night.

The case of the brutal murder of Noida teen Aarushi Talwar took a bizarre and unexpected turn on Saturday, when the corpse of the man police had declared as the 'prime suspect', was discovered in the same house.

When I first told Rakesh, a mehndiwala at Delhi's Hanuman Mandir who has been plying his trade for 17 years, that I wanted to do his job for a day, he laughed out loud. But when he figured I was being serious about the offer, he started trying to dissuade me: he'd apparently had no customers for almost a week.

It's a terribly, terribly sad thing if you live alone - and occasionally imbibe a few drinks. The imagined landscape (the way my mother would imagine it, for instance) is bleak, very bleak: there's nobody in the house to ward off the soul-biting loneliness, you reach for the bottle, and take a swig. You shake your dissolute head, sigh softly, and take a few more swigs.

The city police's attempt at cultivating a woman-friendly image by opening a thana specifically meant for women complainants has hardly found any takers yet.

You really wish summer was all that glossy magazines and advertisements promise it to be: cool-looking you in a lime green or sunny yellow top and white spotless trousers or skirt sashaying your way through your busy day without breaking into the hint of a sweat.

One of the principal problems with the current food and wine boom is that it has led to the creation of a new kind of snobbery. And once you take the fun out of food and wine and turn them into snobby things that you can show off about, you destroy the whole point of eating and drinking.

Pregnant women in their late twenties and thirties are twice as likely to develop diabetes during their pregnancy today than they were five years ago.

Sitting in colourfully-painted cubicles of an imposing glass tower in Gurgaon - which provides a panoramic view of the busy Delhi–Gurgaon toll road - about fifty young men and women are speaking into their headsets in an American accent.