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Top 15 women’s health concerns

April 26, 2013

Wonder why our grandmothers and moms are so fit, when they hardly had access to gyms and ‘healthy’ options to eat like we have now? While rapid urbanization and redefinition of gender roles are giving women more freedom and …

Polio-stricken man completes 42 km Arabian Sea swimathon

March 9, 2013

Physically-challenged swimmer Prakash Nadar from Mumbai was given a hero's welcome after he successfully completed a gruelling 42-km long 18-hour long swimathon on Saturday in a bid to create a new Guinness world record. Nadar, …

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Subhasini Mistry – the woman who built a hospital from nothing

March 10, 2013

Subhasini Mistry toiled for years as a manual labourer, a housemaid and a vegetable-seller. At 70, she can look back with satisfaction at a two-storeyed, whitewashed building, the realisation of her dream to build a hospital for …

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International Women’s Day 2013: Top 10 fitness icons

March 8, 2013

March 8 is International Women’s Day. Be it cricket, the kitchen or a corporate office, today’s woman is no less than her male counterpart. Fitness, commonly thought to be a male dominated arena, is now being taken over by …

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International Women’s Day 2013: What women want in the bedroom

March 8, 2013

March 8 is International Women's Day. If there's one question that most men want answered, it's this - What do women really want in the bedroom? What kind of sex do they expect? Do they want more foreplay? Do all women like to …

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International Women’s Day special: 15 timeless Indian beauties

March 8, 2013

March 8 is International Women's Day and we list out 15 Indian women who have beaten time with their stunning looks and elegance. Even today, they don't fail to impress us with their timeless beauty and persona. Rekha The …

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International Women’s Day 2013: Load up on iron, ladies!

March 7, 2013

March 8 is International Women's Day. Aashna, 33, is the typical superwoman wannabe. She is a successful techie and works for more than 10 hours a day. She makes sure she spends enough time with her daughter, is the ideal bahu …

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Women’s Health Month: Fitter, Sexier, Healthier

March 14, 2013

March 8 is International Women’s Day. First celebrated in 1909, it was a socialist movement which demanded that women be treated as equals. Since the day has developed a universal appeal which echoes throughout the …

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International Women’s Day 2013: Top 10 beauty problems women face

March 7, 2013

March 8 is International Women’s Day. Being a woman, is tough stuff! Worrying about work, home, kids, family and still managing to look stunning can be hard work, but when that one tiny beauty issue spoils the show it can be …

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International Women’s Day 2013: Top 5 fitness tips for women

April 26, 2013

March 8 is International Women’s Day. With Women’s Day around the corner, here are five simple tips for all the lovely ladies out there to stay fit and gorgeous: Tip #1 - Eat healthy The first step to getting fit is …

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International Women’s Day 2013: Rape rises on streets, fades from Bollywood screens

March 7, 2013

March 8 is International Women's Day. A dimly-lit or dark room, a yelping woman, a callous villain and a hero who saves the helpless victim. Bollywood of the 1950s to 1980s almost had a set rape ‘formula’. Fortunately, …

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Polio stricken man to take part in 42 km swimathon

March 6, 2013

A physically handicapped man from the Worli slum here will make an unprecedented attempt to swim the 21-km stretch in the Arabian Sea from the Gateway of India to Rewas in mainland Raigad and make a return journey. Prakash M. …

Tags: Polio,Prakash M. Nadar,Rajaram Ghag,Swimathon,Women's Day

Bollywood actresses’ fitness secrets

November 20, 2012

Bipasha Basu: One of the fittest actresses in Bollywood, we are certain her ex-beau John Abraham’s fitness mania rubbed off on her. The Bong girl is a fitness freak and has different training routines for each day of the …

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Women and weight training

January 28, 2013

Why women shouldn’t avoid weight training Did you think only men need weight training? That if women do weight train, they end up looking bulky and masculine? Well, nothing could be further from the truth. The reason …

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