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Encroachments and land acquisition over years have robbed the beauty of the 200-year-old Church of St John the Baptist in Secunderabad. The magnificent church, the first to be constructed in the twin cities in 1813, once stood on 100 acres, a stone’s throwaway from Secunderabad railway station. Today, the landContinue Reading

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Kolkata: St Xavier’s College -one of the country’s most illustrious brands from the house of Jesuits -has started a campus in Mizoram.The college will be administered by the Jesuit order’s Darjeeling province, which is the headquarters of the northeastern outfits of the order. St Xavier’s University Kolkata, which is theContinue Reading

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Chennai: Immigration authorities at Chennai airport have deported 19 UK citizens who came to attend a charity at a children’s home. The UK citizens — 16 students and three staff members from Poynton High School in Manchester in the UK — were told that they could not enter the countryContinue Reading

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An Indian musician played the guitar on the operating table to help doctors treat involuntary muscle spasms in his fingers. Abhishek Prasad was asked to play every time doctors “burnt” a circuit in his brain to treat what is commonly known as “musician’s dystonia”. The condition causes painful spasms, twistingContinue Reading

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Bidar: The demand for independent religion status for Lingayats once again gathered new momentum on Wednesday, July 19 when lakhs of people belonging to Lingayat community took to the streets in Bidar. About two lakh people arrived from different parts of the State to gather at the Nehru Stadium andContinue Reading