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Pune co cracks rare earth code; magnet gap stays

mumbai, Nov. 1 -- Last November, Vikram Dhoot, managing director of Pune-based Ashvini Magnets, began receiving an unusual flurry of calls and emails from Chinese companies. They wanted to collaborate... Read More


DGCA permits airlines to levy wheelchair fee for able-bodied

New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has revised norms for wheelchair services, permitting airlines to levy a fee for wheelchair assistance availed by able-bodied peop... Read More


The keeper of stories

India, Nov. 1 -- Huthuka Sumi is the latest addition to the growing group of voices from Nagaland. For a long time, the place was written about by British anthropologists, American missionaries and po... Read More


Of PAIN, sisterhood and survival

India, Nov. 1 -- In the heart of Mumbai, where neon lights barely mask the shadows of suffering, lies Kamathipura, one of India's most infamous red-light districts. Into this world walks the city's po... Read More


Vikram and Vetaal redux

India, Nov. 1 -- The great Raja Vikramaditya is told by the tantric yogi Kshantisheela to bring him a corpse that is hanging on a shisham tree. This leads to a battle of wills between the raja and the... Read More


down a mighty stream

India, Nov. 1 -- River Traveller tells the story of the Brahmaputra, the mighty river that rises in Tibet, travels through three countries and, after making its way across 2,900 km, flows into the Bay... Read More


'I have always known that ghosts are among us'

India, Nov. 1 -- 1This novel collapses the distinction between the world of the living and that of those who have passed away. What excited you most about this approach? My mother brought me up to bel... Read More


Caste-away: Still surviving beyond India's shores

India, Nov. 1 -- In July 1982, prime minister Indira Gandhi was set to visit the US. Triumphant after her return from the political wilderness following the debacle of the Emergency, Gandhi's meetings... Read More


life and times of Sardar Patel

India, Nov. 1 -- India on Friday celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of the first home minister and deputy prime minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who welded the country into one nation post-inde... Read More


Fork in the road

India, Nov. 1 -- Doesn't everything taste better when you are on the road? Every time I come back from a trip, I spend a few days caressing my memories. Because I eat for a living, many of the memorie... Read More