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Like her name, she exudes light. Not literally, but The Palace School, a Montessori started by princess Diya Kumari in April 2001, is surely spreading the light of education. The royal family of Jaipur has been relentless in their effort to provide quality educational facilities to the students of Jaipur.

She predicts Bollywood's reigning superstar Shah Rukh Khan to make a shift to politics soon. The Indian Premier League is 'cricket on cocaine', she thinks. As for the controversy surrounding cheerleaders, her answer is short and simple - 'Fans are not complaining, only the politicians.

By now everyone knows that the rising global food prices are the result of the burgeoning Indian middle class. Don't believe us? Ask Mr George W Bush, President of the United States of America, who says, '...when you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up.

London, May 6 (ANI): Thousands of children and their families in Berkshire are hoping to enter record books by building what is thought to be the tallest tower ever made from Lego bricks.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) _ Malaysia's foreign minister says women traveling alone abroad should be required to carry a letter from parents or employers verifying the reason for their journey, a news report said Sunday.

London, May 6 (ANI): Comet, the goldfish is surely on track to become the smartest fish in the world, for it can perform a range of unbelievable aquatic activities.

Washington, May 6 (IANS) Global warming is likely to imperil tropical species much more than fauna in the Arctic regions, even with a slight rise in temperature.

It is welcome news that a Ramakrishna Math bookstall, with its wealth of peace-building, harmonious reading, was just inaugurated at New Delhi railway station. It recalls my feelings two years ago when my guru Swami Ranganathananda of the Ramakrishna Math attained Mahasamadhi on Monday, April 25, 2005 at 3.51 p.m. in Kolkata.

London, May 5 (ANI): Call it a miracle or a full-size produce - a hen has laid an egg equivalent in size to a tennis ball and almost four times larger than normal.

London, May 5 (ANI): It seems that gardening was not Rachel McGarie's cup of tea, for the weeds and brambles in her garden grew so long that they could be seen from space on Google Earth.

London, May 5 (ANI): You must have heard about humans and animals being fitted with artificial limbs, but have you ever imagined a dolphin getting an artificial tail? Well, Winter, the dolphin is the world's first bionic sea creature fitted with a fake tail.

Salem, May 5 (PTI) Thrown into a 60-foot deep well allegedly by her parents, a five-day-old baby girl had a miraculous escape after she got entangled in some thorny bushes inside.

Wrestling fans in the city were an excited lot, as Khali, the first Indian champ at WWE, landed in the Capital after three years. But little did the 7-foot-3-inch giant know that fans would swarm him the moment he landed in Delhi.

Every tradition has terrible stories about the consequences of anger and this one from Indian mythology haunts me. King Kartavirya Arjuna (aka 'Sahasrarjuna', he of the thousand arms) and his army visited Sage Jamadagni, who fed his guest and all those soldiers by the magic of his divine cow, Surabhi.

Kuala Lumpur, May 4 (ANI): A Malaysian local Bhangra album may sound weird to many in India, but two brothers in Malaysia have created history by fusing the local Malay flavour with the Indian spice of Bhangra.

What happens when two shows come up with the same name? And the shows are to be telecast on channels that belong to the same franchise? In this case it's Sony and Sab TV... both their shows are named Krazy Kiya Re.

Salem (TN), May 3 (PTI) Muthulakshmi, wife of slain forest brigand Veerappan, is all set to play the reel life role as she claims that she has signed to act in a movie being produced to portray

IPL has lost its glamour. The Delhi IPL team has replaced its mini-skirted cheerleaders with a Bhangra troupe of 30 hearty, well-covered men. The men in skirts, albeit ankle-length, had their first outing against the Bangalore IPL team recently, leading to both sighs of relief and disappointment from viewers.

The father of the 'problem child' has left for a trip to the other world. Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann who invented lysergic acid diethylamide, a drug better known as LSD, and who later wrote an autobiography titled LSD, My Problem Child died of heart attack this week at his hilltop home in Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.

London, May 2 (ANI): Three cops, based in Barking and Dagenham, took a prisoner on a jaunt out to have sex with his wife as his reward for confessing his crimes.