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'IPL is cricket on cocaine'

HT Wed, May 7

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.

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    I am not an exemplary parent but I do think often of how I will bring up my child. I offer these thoughts, not to teach parents more capable than I, but just to share the impulses of an ordinary, everyday sort of father. 

  2. Colour of political success: Green HT - Mon, May 12

    High oil prices have made us all miserable. Optimists expect them to fuel alternative lifestyles, especially in oil-dependent United States. The New York Times just reported an increase in use of mass transit systems, for example. 

  3. The man who travels 275 miles every week for a Sunday roast ANI - Sat, May 10

    London, May 10 (ANI): One might call it an obsession or a ritual, but a man making a 275-mile round trip every week, just for having his favourite Sunday lunch has to be something more than that. 

  4. Snuffing candles: TN youth creates a new Guinness record PTI - Sat, May 10

    Ramanathapuram (TN), May 10 (PTI) A 21-year old youth from this district of Tamil Nadu has created a new Guinness record by blowing off 151 candles in a single breath. 

  5. Zee decides to give samman to news! HT - Sat, May 10

    On Thursday night, Zee News announced that it was going back to 'real news.' The slightly surly but honest answer to that would be: 'About time. 

  6. Between a rock and a hard place HT - Fri, May 9

    With bad governance and civic distress making us distraught and thoughts on Buddha Purnima (May 19) arriving already for Inner Voice, do let us recall Buddha's famous follower, Emperor Ashoka, whose Dharma Chakra pulls our hard-won flag together. 

  7. Officials' mistake leaves elderly couple sealed inside their New Delhi home AP - Thu, May 8

    NEW DELHI (AP) _ The Wadhwas were enjoying a nap after lunch when a team of overzealous New Delhi officials padlocked their gate, trapping the elderly couple inside and inadvertently bringing them to the center of a heated debate about zoning laws and illegal businesses. 

  8. Scientists alter sex life of plants to get high yield PTI - Wed, May 7

    New Delhi, May 7 (PTI) Scientists at Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have tweaked a gene to alter the sex life of a plant, a move that could lead sustained 

  9. Meet the man who has been hiccupping for 15 months! ANI - Wed, May 7

    London, May 7 (ANI): A British musician is desperately looking forward to a cure for his hiccups - which have been going on for 15 months. 

  10. 'IPL is cricket on cocaine' HT - Wed, May 7

    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. 

  1. Meet the man who has been hiccupping for 15 months! ANI - Wed, May 7

    London, May 7 (ANI): A British musician is desperately looking forward to a cure for his hiccups - which have been going on for 15 months. 

  2. 'IPL is cricket on cocaine' HT - Wed, May 7

    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. 

  3. Long live LSD! HT - Sat, May 3

    The father of the 'problem child' has left for a trip to the other world. 

  4. Help, a scary bird HT - Fri, May 2

    At around four in the afternoon on April 26, Erik Kurzweil, counsellor in the German embassy, witnessed an incredible sight in the first-floor guestroom of his Malcha Marg bungalow - a huge bird sitting on the bed and flapping its giant wings. 

  5. An Indian heiress HT - Fri, May 2

    She's the London-based heiress and philanthropist who paid Bill Clinton a whopping $4,50,000 to speak at the fund-raiser of her Fortune Forum in London. 

  6. India should localise water resource management: expert IANS - Sat, Apr 26

    New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) India has surplus water and one of the richest traditions of managing it, but still water crisis has reached a critical level in the country, says the author of a new book on the subject. 

  7. Auto focus HT - Sat, Apr 26

    Delhi's always been famous for its 'parking' culture - young couples coochie-cooing unhindered in public gardens. But now there's another option for Delhiites - autos. 

  8. Positive Matrimony HT - Fri, Apr 25

    Shiv, a 33-year-old engineer, advertised for a partner in the matrimonial column of a national daily. He is looking for a girl - widow, divorcee or single - of any caste and he won't ask for dowry. Shiv is HIV positive, and his only criteria is that anyone interested in him be HIV affected too. 

  9. Kerala woman climbs dizzy heights to enter male domain PTI - Tue, Apr 22

    Kannur, Apr 22 (PTI) Powered by sheer self-confidence, a local woman has embarked upon the unusual task of plucking nuts from coconut trees, so far a male bastion. 

  10. The long littleness of life HT - Fri, Apr 18

    English poet Rupert Brooke wrote: 'A young Apollo, golden-haired/Stands dreaming on the brink of strife/Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.' So 'What is the big dream in your life?' I asked my class of undergraduate second year students at IIT Madras. 

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  1. The nature of male anger HT - Mon, May 5

    Every tradition has terrible stories about the consequences of anger and this one from Indian mythology haunts me. 


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