The Indian Express -- Leisure

Sunday, November 09 1997

TODAY'S CROSSWORD TODAY'S ZODIAC

Andhraites more prone to cancer of the liver

The people of Andhra Pradesh have been found to be more prone to liver cancers and key pockets which have recorded maximum number of cases lie in the Guntur-Ongole belt. In an interview here today, Dr Raja Sambandam, president of the Indian Association of Study of Liver (IASL), said the underlying factors might be food habits, over consumption of groundnut and its oil and recycling of oil.

Why fixing ONGC won't be easy for McKinsey

When the Prime Minister finally gets around to conducting his on-now-off-now review of the country's oil sector, he would be well advised to pay very close attention to ONGC, the country's largest, and public sector, oil producing company. For, a reasonably large part of the problem the country is facing in terms of falling oil production can be traced to this single entity. An equally large part, it goes without saying, must also be attributed to the fact that even now, despite the navratna policy, the petroleum ministry refuses to allow bodies like ONGC any independence.

The famous parents syndromen

``Before the show, people kept asking me, `Are your Mum and Dad coming for the show?', and I was thinking, `Can't you give me just one thing for my own?' Of course they're coming.'' But then, she's been used to the famous parents syndrome since her teens and feels she can handle it. ``After the show, people said, `I loved watching your Dad tapping his hand to the music.' What are they doing watching my Dad at a fashion show?

Why fixing ONGC won't be easy for McKinsey

Andhraites more prone to cancer of the liver

The famous parents syndromen

Person of the week -- Richard Gere