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On the rise: Divorces under 25
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New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS)
Twenty five-year-old Seema Sharma got married seven months ago and now she is fighting for a divorce in the court on grounds of mental and physical torture by her husband. Like her, many are bearing the brunt of being called divorcees or separated after their marriage lasted only for a few months or years.
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Cold comfort: Kashmir battles chill sans power
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Srinagar, Dec 28 (IANS)
Perhaps the only thing more numbing than Kashmir's winter is the state government's apathy. Despite official assurances of uninterrupted power supply and of meeting any shortfall from the country's northern grid, Kashmiris are enduring yet another winter without power. Many towns in Kashmir Valley get power for only four-five hours a day, residents complain.
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Rival to the Taj, but a century in the making
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Agra, Dec 24 (IANS)
More than 20,000 people built the Taj Mahal in 22 years in the 17th century. Just 10 km away, another mausoleum that could possibly rival the Taj has taken a century and the labour of some six generations, but is still far from complete.
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Murdered British charity worker rules slum children's hearts
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Dharamsala, Dec 23 (IANS)
He may have been brutally murdered here five years ago, but British charity worker Michael Blakey continues to live in the hearts of schoolchildren who have been rehabilitated from slums and adopted by the charity he helped found in this north Indian town made famous by the Dalai Lama.
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Happily unmarried and living in at 50
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New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS)
Shekhar Malhotra had been living an extremely isolated, morbid life as a single for two years, but five days changed it all. Five eventful days when he walked, laughed, held hands and shared drinks and memories with a woman. Five days when the 68-year-old 'lived-in' with a woman.
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