Miscellaneous
Artistic strokes at IIMC
THE sprawling greens of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) at Joka will be teeming with people for a week from Monday. But they will not be the usual crowd of hard-nosed corporates and sagely management gurus.

Ayurveda floors Sumo wrestler
NOT many people in their right `frame' of mind would entertain thoughts of laying low the living Sumo legend, Konishiki. But this is exactly what the man-mountain from Japan was subjected to, lying spread-eagled on a specially-made massage bed in a five- star hotel for the last few days.

Crouching poachers, training cops
THE Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has set the National Police Academy in Hyderabad on the trail of tiger poachers, known to be more secretive than those in the narcotics trade.

A transparent Goddess of wealth
FOR Goddess Lakshmi, the very embodiment of fortune in the Hindu pantheon, no price can be fair as she is supposed to be the repository of all riches.

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