[ad_1] V.J. Philip, former Professor of Botany and founder head of the Department of Biotechnology, University of Calicut, passed away at a private hospital in Kottayam on Saturday (October 18). Born in 1938 at Mannakkanad in Kottayam district, he got a postgraduate degree in Botany from Loyola College, then Madras, in 1958, and secured a […]
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[ad_1] Durani. | Photo Credit: File photo: N. Sridharan My enduring memory of Salim Durani is not the sixes he hit (although I saw some of them) or the wickets he claimed (I saw many of those too), but the manner of his arrival at a press conference in New Delhi. We were just a […]
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[ad_1] Pyramid meditation guru Subhash Patri, 74, died of health problems at Kadtal in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana on last Sunday (July 24). Popularly called by his followers ‘Patriji’, he established the Kurnool Spiritual Society in 1990. He popularised pyramid meditation by building the first pyramid in Kurnool and another in Uravakonda in Anantapur […]
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