VAPI: If you are not from a famouspolitician or actor's family, it will be pretty hard on you to remember yourlate great grand ancestors' names. But if you still want to remember theirnames, just follow the easy way out as shown by Rooman Shah, a class IX studentof Vapi, who was upset when he could not tell who his great grandfather andmother were.To make the job of remembering them easy, he has namedhis...
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Indira Gandhi means different thingsto different people. Some remember her as the person who brought machismo toIndian politics. They remember how she manoeuvered herself to power, absolutepower, cut down to size the regional satraps, humbled the royalty, seized theirpurses, nationalised the banks, threatened to abolish garibi, won a war againstPakistan, stared down the US Seventh Fleet in the Bay...
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Manmohan on Saturday led the nation in remembering Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 134th birth anniversary by paying homage to him at a function in Parliament's Central Hall.Balraj...
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homeCultural and social organisations on Friday remembered pre-eminent poet Sufia Kamal with a variety of programmes on her 10th death anniversary....
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…It's Veterans Day and soldiers at Fort Hood are being urged to remember their 13 comrades who died in last week's shooting spreeWould...
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much in India has changed since 1989 that you can now virtually not recongnise the country, but there has been one constant indulgence and that person's name is. CNN-IBN's Sports Editor Gaurav Kalra spoke to the Indian batting maestro, who completed 20 years of international cricket on November 15, 2009.Yes, I remember. I remember that we fielded first and after the first day, I was so tired that I...
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uncut birthday cake and four terror bullets, a family remembers (A year after 26/11)Life and death, celebration and mourning it all came together in a bewildering flash for the Sharma family that Nov 26 one year ago when terrorists struck Mumbai and Sushilkumar Sharma crumpled to a hail of bullets on his son's 13th birthday just as the party was under way.The 48-year-old assistant chief ticketing inspector...
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Scientists claim to have created the world's cleverest rat by introducing modifications in a single gene.Named Hobbie-J, after a Chinese cartoon character, it can remember objects almost three times longer than other rats.During its embryo stage, the rat was injected with genetic material to improve the NR2B gene, which controls memory.Scientists hope a similar technique could someday be used to augment...
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David Shepherd: A tribute to one of the finest umpires cricket ever had.In sports, an official is supposed to have a good game if you don’t read his name in the newspapers the next day. Officials are supposed to stay away from the limelight and go about their business in the most unremarkable fashion. You either remember them for controversial incidents or for being spot-on in their decision-making....
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Slice of Britain: Find it difficult to remember what you did last week, let alone the order of 1,144 cards? Don't despair: it's possible to train your mind – and age is no bar. The founder of the World Memory Championships is living proofTo the casual observer, the sight of rows and rows of heads all bowed in concentration in a drab London hotel basement is instantly forgettable. But for 74 competitors,...
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