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Drought, price rise being monitored: Manmohan
Convenes meeting of Chief Ministers for August 17
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
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NEW DELHI: With the southwest monsoon not reviving and the prices of essential commodities, vegetables and milk rising, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday sought details of the situation from various departments, including Agriculture, Food, Consumer Affairs, Power, Fertilizer, Railways and […]
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Chief Ministers told to step up preparedness People wait in queue outside the H1N1 screening centre at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday. - Photo: R. V. Moorthy
Aarti Dhar
NEW DELHI: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday asked the State Chief Ministers to step up preparedness to tackle swine flu.
Swine flu has caused the […]
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Development of Yoga
THE ORIGINS OF YOGA AND TANTRA: Geoffrey Samuel; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge House, 4381/4, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002. Rs. 995.
RAJAN GURUKKAL
The book discusses, in a historical perspective, the techniques of mental and physical cultivation known as Yoga, Tantra and Dhyana which are integral to the religious traditions of early India. In the […]