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The
troubled life and times of Rahul Mahajan
 New
Delhi: His life is the kind of spectacle that television
thrives on. One reason perhaps is that Rahul Mahajan
understands television very well.
Not so long ago, when he was still an unknown entity,
Rahul Mahajan was a television producer for Doordarshan
but the spotlight turned on him, in May 2006 when
he lost his father to an alleged fratricide and
even before that faded in public memory, came another
shocker.
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1984
Sikh carnage was wrong: Rahul
 Amritsar,
November 18 Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi
condemned the anti-Sikh violence in the aftermath
of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, saying “whatever
happened was wrong”.
“The 1984 riots were wrong. I strongly condemn
the carnage,” Rahul said at a news conference
in response to a question on Operation Bluestar
and the riots. “There is no truth that there
is hatred among Sikhs against the Congress party.
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Indian
Navy sinks pirate vessel off Somali coast
 Gulf
of Aden, Nov 19: Within days of preventing the hijack
of an Indian merchant vessel, Indian Navy’s
warship INS Tabar, after exchange of fire, sank
a pirate vessel off the Somali coast.
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FM calls for
price cuts, CEOs divided
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DELHI: Finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday
called on sectors like housing, automobiles, hotels
and airlines to cut prices to boost demand
and beat the slowdown. The auto sector ruled
this out as unrealistic in the current situation,
while airlines — looking for
a lifeline from the government —
seemed more receptive to the suggestion. Real estate
companies, however, remained noncommittal.
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Season of
pinkslips? Here are the firms hiring in India
 NEW
DELHI: Citigroup on Tuesday decided to cut 53,000
more jobs, triggering fears of more layoffs across
industries. A lowdown on some sectors and companies
which are on a hiring spree (TOI) TOI, however,
has decided to be contrarian. Instead of only writing
about pink slips, it hunted out companies that are
actually hiring. Here are the sectors that are hiring:
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'Vitamin D good for kidney patients'
Activated
vitamin D administered to patients with moderate to
severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) reduces mortality
by a fourth, according to the latest findings.
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Music eases blood pressure
If
your blood pressure is high, do not fret. Just breathe
slowly, turn on some quiet, slow rhythmic music and
watch your blood pressure tumble drastically.
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Coffee:
Can It Keep Your Brain in Shape?
Coffee's ability to forestall
mental decline has been the subject of some very interesting
research lately. First, a study from France showed
that women who drank three or more cups of coffee
daily were 30 percent less likely to have memory problems
at age 65 than women who drank a single cup of coffee
or less.
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Growing
Pains
It
seems to make sense: If a child or teenager who is
going through a growth spurt complains of leg pain,
it’s probably just “growing pains,”
right? But what exactly are growing pains? And if
they are truly related to growth, a number of questions
arise:
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