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Getting Fit the Bootcamp Way

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Summer is here and if you peruse your local activity guide or gym schedule, you will see boot camps cropping up everywhere. If you are looking to get in shape fast, but don’t have a lot of time, you might want to think about bootcamp workouts for your exercise routine. Bootcamp workouts are incredibly intense [...]

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Robin Gill: A Journalist At Heart

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Armstrong once said “If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you, and BECAUSE of you”. A five year old Robin Gill looked up at her [...]

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Big B denounces caste system

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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who will be seen in a film themed on caste-based reservations, says he doesn’t believe in the caste system, has never faced any bias because of his caste and is proud that his father gave him a surname that doesn’t denote any such thing.
“If ever I have faced a rejection or [...]

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Bombs in Mumbai seem to be a reoccurring nightmare

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There’s still uncertainty among Indian officials as to who is responsible for last Wednesday’s triple blasts in Mumbai.
Three bombs went off in separate locations in the city during Wednesday’s rush hour killing more than a dozen people and injuring more than 100.
Officials have said those responsible seem to be trained in handling explosives and may [...]

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Treasure Trove Found in Southern India

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A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a south Indian temple has unearthed gold, jewels and statues worth an estimated $22 billion, government officials said Monday.
The treasure trove, at the 16th century Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple, is widely believed to be the largest find of its kind in India, catching officials in the state of Kerala by [...]

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Sim Bhullar will be a force to be reckoned with

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When the 7-foot-4 centre Sim Bhullar walks through airports, people flock to him and ask him to pose for pictures. When he recently visited India, where his parents were born, so many approached him at the Sikh shrine known as the Golden Temple that he was ushered into an office. People hung on the bars [...]

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Hate Crime on Sikh in the US

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Kamaljit Atwal’s neighbourhood seems like an unlikely place for a hate crime. His street in this Sacramento suburb seems a model of diversity.
Atwal and his family are from India, one of two Sikh families on the block. On Atwal’s street alone, there’s a Vietnamese family, a Mexican family, a black woman and a white man.
But [...]

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Amrtita Rao New PETA Supporter

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Looking casual but sexy in a pair of shorts and hugging T-shirt, Bollywood actress Amrita Rao, feels proud to be a vegetarian and shot for a new pro-vegetarian advertisement for animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India.
“I call being vegetarian the Wow Rao diet. Wow because I know that being [...]

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Bollywood Baby Bumps are on the Rise

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It seems that the stork is visiting Bollywood.
After a long awaited visit to actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the buzz is that Lara Dutta is pregnant. There has been no confirmation from the actress but sources say that Lara and hubby Mahesh Bhupathi are indeed expecting their first child together.
The couple got married just about five [...]

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2011 July/August Fashion

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