A café where pets have their own enclosure and a vet available all day – that’s the latest in facilities for pampered pooches Pet owners or rather “pet parents”, as they like to be called these days, are increasingly investing more and more in the wellbeing of their pets, including strays adopted from the streets. […]

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Recently, American Society of Nephrology has raised concern over low potassium intake in diet as an inciting factor for hypertension. In a large study, urine samples were evaluated for knowing potassium deficiency in body, and it was more strongly correlated than sodium to cause hypertension. Potassium is also an important constituent of body fluid. It […]

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The capital’s drainage system has retained the same archaic structure for 42 years, even as the population has increased four-fold In the scorching heat of the capital, while everyone is ardently praying and hoping for rainfall to get some relief, the city isn’t quite ready for the subsequent waterlogging that will follow soon. It takes […]

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Residents have battled for an Urdu medium school here for decades, but the EDMC ‘whimsically’ changed it to English medium last month The gate of a new three-floored school in East Delhi’s Sri Ram Colony has a message scribbled on it with chalk— “Do not park your vehicles in front of this gate”—even though a […]

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Discussions fill the air on how the Hindu community ‘can’t be silent anymore’ and how ‘the time has come’ On Monday night, the usual bustle of Chandni Chowk is absent. The markets are shut and there is heavy patrolling by police officials following a series of events that took place on the night of Sunday, […]

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When working in the office, do you get distracted by the noise around you? Is the sound of your colleague typing hard on the keyboard disturbing? Do sounds other people don’t even notice drive you up a wall? Are you affected so much that you are close to tears or become immensely agitated? You might […]

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The idea of ‘free choice’ gets a blow when the choices women make fit into a clear, distinguishable pattern Zaira Wasim, the young superstar from Kashmir, has been in the news for a while now. Her letter on why she left cinema and acting is a reflection of a deep surrender that a young woman […]

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Affected families in Muzaffarpur have much in common: low social status, low income, poor access to healthcare and the non-existent reach of government schemes The countryside in Bihar’s north-western region of Tirhut is in full bloom at this time of the year. One is constantly in the vicinity of mango trees and litchi orchards and […]

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