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• Puttingal Temple Tragedy ~ Some Insurance Angle !

  

  For one used to visiting divyadesams and other important temples of Madras, the temples of Kerala are different – different in architecture, religious... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2016 SOCIETY

• IPL 2016 Has Begun ~ Champion Dance - Pune Supergiants Win and More !!

  

  IPL T20, the premier league season 2016 is on – a total of 60 matches, of which 2 already gone… how much of ‘club loyalty’ people had, and how easily the... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2016 SOCIETY

• High Court Directs Insurance Company to Pay for Barges ,,,

  

  Nicholas Magens, an English merchant writing in 1755 wrote at length of a policy of Marine Insurance dated at London in 1744. .. Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Maharashtra Facing Acute Water Crisis - Should IPL Be Played in Maha !!

  

  After Asia Cup and ICC T20 WC – Cricket fans will be treated more .. though Chennai fans who had all along whistled and painted town yellow would be finding it... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Google Doodle Celebrates Sitar Maestro Pundit Ravi Shankar's Birthday

  

  Can you identify this famous dancer…. In 1966, the famous Beatles, George Harrison befriended him and began to take lessons from him. This association catapulte... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Klepetan, the Stork Flies Back Thousands of Mile, Every Year - for 14th Year.

  

  An interesting clue for Crossword beginners : speed at which Russian fighters move (7) In Mar 2016, at Madurai, there was this interesting incident. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Panama Leaks .... Pathankot Probe - the Real and Fake !!

  

  It is unlikely that this 41 years old leaving office “for an unspecified amount of time,” would be read with interest in India, but it is …. Iceland is a... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 SOCIETY

• World's First Tiger Sanctuary Coming up Near Rewa - the Place of White Tiger

  

  A couple of years ago, in a grisly incident, witnessed by scores and captured live on many cameras, a 200-kg tiger mauled and killed a youth after he fell into... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Ghost of Chris Broad Haunts Ben Stokes ~ DDR Master Stroke !

  

  Sunday, much hyped World T20 finals 2016 – England once pushed to corner could muster and set up a target of 155. Ordinary mortals talked about Chris Gayle and... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2016 SOCIETY

• How Dhoni Stumped the Press ~ That 112M Hit ... Thalada !!

  

  MSD is a rare phenomenon … a shrewd captain, power hitter, great runner, Captain cool – the champion gloveman has effected 148 stumpings in International Cricke... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2016 SOCIETY

• the 'Arunachala' Kiwi .... What ?

  

  March has just ended – Chennai is already hot – experts are predicting gruelling summer and oppressive heat. as you travel, at home and in workplace too… it is... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2016 SOCIETY

• '5 Second Rule' -microbes .. Food Packing and Fallen Food !!!

  

  Do you carry your lunch daily – home made and neatly packed ?or do you eat outside daily ?? ….. .. it is tastier and delicious eating variety food daily ! Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Egypt Air Hijacked ~ Selfie Syndorme !!

  

  Ben Innes, currently living in Aberdeen, a Health and Safety auditor, is in news ! – moment of fame or infamy ? Most people know the phrase Stockholm Syndrome... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2016 SOCIETY

• WI Beats India in Semis; WI Women Too Enter Finals ~ Something from the Past !

  

  Decades before, we had IPL , Mumbai Indians and more – in Triplicane and elsewhere, there was a special group – West Indies supporters who arrogantly believed... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2016 SOCIETY

• the All New Bike-taxi : Viable Cheap Transport Or Illegal One ?

  

  At first look, this lass looks like one on way to a MNC…. Life has changed in fast lane – and not many would remember the yellow Ambassador / Premier Padmini... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2016 SOCIETY

• T24 Would Lose Its Jungle Regality ~ More of Show Piece in a Zoo

  

  Man-Eaters of Kumaon is a book written by Jim Corbett. It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s,... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2016 SOCIETY

• Who Will Replace Yuvraj ~ Semi Finals : West Indies Play Two

  

  You see lot of power punch in that ! There are two semi final matches today featuring West Indies. West Indies have been the eternal bridesmaids at the Women's... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Bike-taxi : Approved Cheap Means ~ Or Illegal as Some Say ?

  

  At first look, this lass looks like one on way to a MNC….Life has changed in fast lane – and not many would remember the yellow Ambassador / Premier Padmini... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Semi Finals Line-up in T20 WC 2016 - Sune Luus Who ?

  

  That is no campaigning in election … NZ play England today … they have used spinners extensively. 20 Wickets for New Zealand's spinners, the most by any team... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2016 SOCIETY

• Terror Attack on Pathankot ~ the JIT of Pakistan ..

  

  Any idea of what these respected army jawans are guarding ? [photo credit : The Hindu] Nurpur was one of the Princely states of India during the period of the... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 SOCIETY