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A new paradigm for fighting cancer (29 August 02:55) |
| Dr Tejinder Katariya
Augest.29 : During a radiation treatment session and also from one treatment session to another, tumours can move due to normal internal organ action (digestion, elimin... |
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Even the blind can donate eyes (29 August 02:52) |
| Dr Anita Sethi
Augest.29 : There are an estimated 4.6 million people with corneal blindness in India waiting for a corneal transplant. Ninety per cent of these people are below the age of 4... |
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Change of seasons may trigger asthma attacks (01 August 04:24) |
| pfont size=2strongDr RK Manistrongfontp
pOne of the well- known causes of an asthma attack is the change of season especially during monsoon During this period there is a rise in humidity f... |
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Bariatric surgery right way to lose weight (18 July 03:26) |
| Dr Sandeep Malhotra
Obesity is a problem with people across the world. With economic progress, a large percentage of urban Indians are obese. Obesity is a disease that increases the risk of... |
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Centre Court fans no longer at rain god’s mercy (19 June 03:30) |
| Pritha Sarkar
Never again will Wimbledon stage a men’s final such as last year’s rain-soaked epic in which Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer’s five-year reign as dusk fell over southwe... |
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Centre Court fans no longer at rain god€™s mercy (19 June 03:30) |
| pfont size=2strongPritha Sarkarstrongfontp
pNever again will Wimbledon stage a men€™s final such as last year€™s rain-soaked epic in which Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer€™s five-year reig... |
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Centre Court fans no longer at rain gods mercy (19 June 03:30) |
| Pritha Sarkar
Never again will Wimbledon stage a men’s final such as last year’s rain-soaked epic in which Rafael Nadal ended Roger Federer’s five-year reign as dusk fell over southwe... |
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Baby may disturb Roger’s Grand Slam dreams (02 April 11:19) |
| By Pritha Sarkar
If Roger Federer thinks becoming a father will have little impact on his goal of equalling and then breaking Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles he might be in for... |
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Baby may disturb Roger€™s Grand Slam dreams (02 April 11:19) |
| p class=c1strongBy Pritha Sarkarstrongp
pIf Roger Federer thinks becoming a father will have little impact on his goal of equalling and then breaking Pete Sampras record of 14 Grand Slam ti... |
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Baby may disturb Rogers Grand Slam dreams (02 April 11:19) |
| By Pritha Sarkar
If Roger Federer thinks becoming a father will have little impact on his goal of equalling and then breaking Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles he might be in for... |
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Go out and play (20 November 11:42) |
| By Dr Aijaz Ashai
Did you know that Mahendra Singh Dhoni has enrolled in St Xavier's college, Ranchi, for a Bachelor's degree in commerce? He plans to enroll for an MBA thereafter. Fellow c... |
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Dhoni has got the looks (13 November 11:15) |
| By R. Mohan
Was this really a watershed series it was touted to be? Are the Australians in terminal decline or were they merely hit by Indiaitis, the disease that debilitates most comers? T... |
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Viswanathan on top of the world (30 October 10:05) |
| By T.N. Raghu
Viswanathan Ana-nd is on top of the world, again. The Indian Super GM has retained the world chess title after beating Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik 6.5-4.5 in Bonn, Germany. Th... |
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Is Mohali beginning of end for Oz Test might? (23 October 11:35) |
| By R. Mohan
IS MOHALI the beginning of the end of Australia’s domination of Test cricket? On the evidence of India’s biggest ever win in terms of runs that came this week, it does appea... |
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Is Mohali beginning of end for Oz Test might (23 October 11:35) |
| pfont size=2strongBy R Mohanstrongfontp
pIS MOHALI the beginning of the end of Australia€™s domination of Test cricket On the evidence of India€™s biggest ever win in terms of runs that cam... |
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Greg, Sourav fire back (02 October 10:03) |
| R. Mohan
This is the ultimate of sporting ironies. Sourav Ganguly gets a renewed lease of Test life from the new selection committee that has ruled the batsman must play on while guru Greg ... |
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Greg Sourav fire back (02 October 10:03) |
| p class=c1strongR Mohanstrongp
pThis is the ultimate of sporting ironies Sourav Ganguly gets a renewed lease of Test life from the new selection committee that has ruled the batsman must pl... |
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Dada’s dilemma: To go or not to go (11 September 10:36) |
| R. Mohan
The heat is on Sourav Ganguly. He has to decide quickly whether another big fight to extend his career is worth the trouble. As a battler against the odds, he has had few equals in... |
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Dada€™s dilemma To go or not to go (11 September 10:36) |
| p class=c1strongR Mohanstrongp
pThe heat is on Sourav Ganguly He has to decide quickly whether another big fight to extend his career is worth the trouble As a battler against the odds he h... |
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Dadas dilemma To go or not to go (11 September 10:36) |
| R. Mohan
The heat is on Sourav Ganguly. He has to decide quickly whether another big fight to extend his career is worth the trouble. As a battler against the odds, he has had few equals in... |
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Fired-up Flintoff transforms England (04 September 10:34) |
| R. Mohan
To say Andrew Flintoff is greater than the sum of his parts is the simplest way to praise the man. As class acts go, he is in a league of his own, so rare has the bowling all-round... |
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Tongue-tied when meeting the Don (28 August 10:52) |
| R. Mohan
There has been an outpouring of emotion over Sir Donald Bradman this week during which his birth anniversary (August 27) was celebrated with the kind of reverence associated most w... |
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Players divided over referral system (15 August 12:03) |
| V. Balaji
The curiosity that surrounded the umpire referral system at the start of the Test series was to be expected. The scheme came into being without much warning. It took a longer time... |
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Pietersen gets into the hot seat (07 August 11:07) |
| R. Mohan
What is it about captaincy that provokes virtually irrational behaviour on the part of cricketers? On the one hand, they all die to be captain, but once they have had a taste of th... |
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Master tactician is back (31 July 10:37) |
| Sunit Kaul
Things moved swi-ftly on Tuesday night. The results were officially out at 1.30 am, but the celebrations had effectively kicked off much before. Jagmohan Dalmiya’s supporters, ... |
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Book cooks up cricket biryani (24 July 10:27) |
| R. Mohan
P.R. Man Singh’s book on the history of Hyderabad cricket is an unusual effort. It is not in the strict sense a formal history of the kind usually penned by writers. This book is... |
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Past forward: When India had its moment in the sun (03 July 09:55) |
| R. Mohan
As retrospectives go, this one was a topper. Indian cricket has had its moments in the sun, many of which have been celebrated with gusto.
The 1983 World Cup win remains so specia... |
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June 25, 1983: The day India changed history (19 June 10:39) |
| R. Mohan
They were so snooty at Lord’s in those days. It was a different world then. There was a luncheon invitation for me with the MCC official who also gave me my media pass — a meda... |
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Champions League: The biggest showdown (12 June 11:31) |
| R. Mohan
Not for nothing will the first Champions League come to be known as the biggest showdown in cricket. It will be one of the biggest paydays in the game for the teams that play in th... |
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‘It was a miracle when I reached the top’ (12 June 11:30) |
| Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
Kalpana Dash, India’s second woman mountaineer after Bachendri Pal to successfully reach the Everest Peak, says a miracle happened when she hoisted the tricolour and t... |
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Best and worst of Indian Premier League (05 June 10:51) |
| R. Mohan
The Indian Premier League had a dream finish that Hollywood scriptwriters may not have dared put in their scenarios. Form a start in Bengaluru to a spectacular show to a finish ser... |
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Long weekend for couch potatoes (29 May 10:50) |
| R. Mohan
The country’s richest man combined with the world’s richest cricketer to form a cricket team. Even so, the Mumbai Indians do not find themselves in the IPL semi-finals. This ju... |
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There’s something about Warne (15 May 10:18) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Who writes the scripts for these guys? The question crops up quite frequently when these larger than life characters take a hand in shaping events. And there is none bigg... |
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Exodus of Aussies, Kiwis to affect IPL (01 May 10:50) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
In May, IPL teams may hardly resemble those that played in the last two weeks of April. The exodus of the Australians, West Indians and New Zealanders, to do national dut... |
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Shining IPL lights will change game forever (17 April 10:57) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
The shining lights of the Indian Premier league will cast their brightness far beyond Indian shores. No sooner than the luminescence hits Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday an... |
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Showboat Shoaib’s nonstop soap opera (10 April 09:58) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Showboat Shoaib" is Pakistan cricket’s longest running soap opera. Would cricket be the same without him? As cricket’s serial offender, he has reserved a unique ... |
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Sehwag comes back, and spectacularly (03 April 10:33) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
It took him only two Test innings to transform from a batsman riddled with self-doubt to an opener with a legitimate claim to be one of the country's all-time greats. And... |
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Chennai history must not escape SA openers (27 March 10:57) |
| Cricket | Rajan Bala
My preoccupation with history is at times looked upon as unnecessary and, probably, even a measure of one-upmanship. Not that it has ever concerned me in the least. One... |
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Another golden moment in India’s one-day arena (13 March 10:28) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
As wins go for Team India, the most recent one at the Gabba ranks right up there with the very best. The World Cup win of 1983 will doubtless top any list. A close second... |
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Heady days for Indian cricket (06 March 11:26) |
| Focus | Rahul Banerji
These are heady days for Indian cricket. Two days after the Under-19 team won the Junior World Cup for the second time since 2000, the seniors created a little bit of ... |
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IPL riches will lure the English too (21 February 10:43) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
The Indian Premier League will usher in a revolution. The cricket world is not universally happy because the professional league will only further empower Indian cricket ... |
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Cricket a whimsical goddess of fortune (14 February 10:35) |
| Focus | R. Mohan
The game of cricket has often been likened to a whimsical mistress, enticing men on to a glamorous path to fame and fortune one minute and spurning them the next. While suc... |
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Golden oldies must give way to younger men in white coats (07 February 10:59) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
They were blacklisted for wrecking the World Cup final. Much like a bad penny, the usual suspects keep bobbing up. And they are at it again but the case list has got so b... |
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Triangular contest big challenge for Asians (31 January 10:55) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
All the intrigue surrounding Bhajjigate has been left behind in Adelaide. The cricket is set to resume without the albatross of racism charges hanging round the neck of a... |
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Ganguly at centre of another storm (24 January 11:11) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Sourav Chandi Ganguly. Now, that’s a name that divides Indian cricket and ironically so since he was the captain who is said to have united Team India by picking player... |
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Daunting challenges in a storybook setting (24 January 11:11) |
| Davos Diary | Siraj Wahab
Davos, Switzerland: It was raining in Jeddah when we left for Davos. What started as a drizzle turned into a downpour as we arrived through crippling traffic.
By ... |
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Game must piece together its credibility (17 January 11:20) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
Cricket lurched back to normality pretty quickly. The atmosphere at a WACA was decidedly friendlier even if all the banter was not cut out, but if that happened the game ... |
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A year of incredible highs, impossible lows (23 December 10:58) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
It was a year of incredible highs and impossible lows. It was the year of the Gen Next, of the funky new heroes of Indian cricket. It was also the year of the older gener... |
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Team India go Down Under with new hope (13 December 11:32) |
| R. Mohan
To touring teams the island-continent-nation represents the toughest terrain on the cricket planet. First, they go up against the best team in the world, Australia. Second, the med... |
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Praise the Kandyman, for you can’t bury him (08 December 12:14) |
| Cricket | R. Mohan
No spin bowler has polarised opinion within the sport like Muttiah Muralitharan.
He is hailed as a genius with claims to be the best ever spin bowler in the history of c... |
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