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Tweens
According to a new report by consumer research company, the NPD Group, tween girls – those aged between eight and twelve years – are upping their beauty usage, while teens and young women have cut down on their spending. “Tweens reported increases in regular usage of mascara, eye liner, and lipstick, relative to 2007 levels,” NPD said. “In fact, regular usage of mascara almost doubled in the past two years.” Interestingly, the group didn’t link this development … Read entire article »
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Caste , Census , and India
Caught in a cusp between old and new worlds, India’s interface with caste remains schizophrenic 60 years after adopting a republican Constitution Three events last week painfully underlined the complex matrix of caste in Indian politics and society. First, the Government succumbed to combined Opposition pressure and agreed to enumerate citizens by caste in the ongoing Census operations. Second, DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi, having run out of all weapons in his armoury to defend the brazen … Read entire article »
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World’s largest beaver dam spotted
A Canadian-based ecologist says he has located the world’s largest beaver dam in northwestern Canada using Google satellite technology. Ecologist Jean Thie located the 2,788-foot (850-meter) dam using Google Earth and NASA technology while researching the rate of melting permafrost in the country’s far north. Situated in northern Alberta’s Wood Buffalo National Park, which straddles the Alberta-Northwest Territories border, the dam stretches more than eight football fields long, Thie said Friday. “I couldn’t believe it when I saw … Read entire article »
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The shiny non elitist
Who said that the shiny civil services examination was only limited to the elite. To shun the notion, her is Faesal Iqbal, a young lad from Srinagar, currently a doctor, who made it to the top most spot of the Union Public Civil Services Examination. Not only is he serving as a doctor, but has also got a penchant for a unique thing, and that is the Right to Information Act. He has also been … Read entire article »
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Irresponsible Consumer Makes ICICI Bank Pay 13 Lakh
Let me ask you a question: If you are in the middle of Chor Bazar (Market for stolen Goods) in Delhi , with Rs 5000 cash, jewellery worth 20 grands and a blackberry mobile. And while bargaining with one of the shopkeepers, someone snitches away your belongings. Who would you stand responsible? You, thief or the shopkeeper? Well, I don’t know what your answer was, but a strange legal case (perhaps, the very first of its … Read entire article »
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