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Battle it online

Pro-Gs.com is your “go-to” website for all things related to e-gaming.




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Keep it simple

Why complicate the language when all you intend to do is communicate…




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Get your dancing shoes on for the NXg Campus Jive




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Information matters

An educational website that answers queries on sexual health and sexuality anonymously




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Where hope resides

Livelihood College is the new address for youth of Dantewada who, disoriented by years of Naxal violence, see it as a new beginning




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Will to live

What makes humans and animals overcome disabilities?




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Time to think…

Can our city handle another environmental problem?




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Digital Diwali

Clothes, firecrackers, house visits…been there, done that. This Diwali, load up your phone with these useful apps and watch as your popularity meter soars.




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Celebrating variety

Poker games, salsa socials, programmes for special children… Variety is the name of the game when it comes to Diwali celebrations around the city.




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Good Grief

Looking for a bridge over troubled water? KRITHVI SHYAM, our young psychologist, addresses your worst anxieties.




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Fun over tradition?

We asked youngsters if festivals were just about enjoying or did they also want to up keep customs and practices. Payal Chhabria listens in…




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Hills, rich in flora and fauna

Sneha is passionate about the environment. And as a crusader for the cause, she made a presentation on the hill ranges in Andhra Pradesh.




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Hats off to Nilam!

Why Cyclone Nilam proved to be a blessing in disguise…




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Chennai city's charmers

A bus ride arms you with experiences that you cannot get elsewhere…




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Not my life

Need for space and no questions please…




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Squandermania

Why FDI is bad for us youngsters…




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Campus chat: Facebook diaries

These are times when democracy is being redefined by repeated State assaults and unfailing surges of retaliation by its people on a medium that is in constant flux. Six students from Jenneys Academy of Hotel Management discuss the arrest of the ‘Facebook women’ in Mumbai and its fundamental democratic violation




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Fiction over fact

Young people continue to be enamoured of books, especially fiction, reveals a survey on reading habits in the north eastern region




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Good Grief

Looking for a bridge over troubled water? Krithvi Shyam, our young psychologist, addresses your worst anxieties.




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Is this love?

What’s your definition?




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All in all

This December, arts internship is the new buzzword. Payal Chhabria talks to a few youngsters who’ve been there and done that…




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24x7 helpline, talent bank, interaction portal among recommendations in youth policy

Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar says Karnataka Youth Policy will be implemented in toto




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Talking to the tightrope

A tightrope walker from Chhattisgarh performs on the streets of Tiruchi




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Communicating nothing in particular

If today’s youngsters are busy texting “trivial” messages, the letters people wrote in the past were not exactly repositories of social commentary either.




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Let’s innovate!

Sanjay Vijayakumar, the trailblazing CEO of MobME, one of the most successful telecom start-ups in India, talks about his entrepreneurial journey




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Getting a hang of the Indian way

Yoko Hayashi from Japan is savouring the real taste of India. In the city as an intern of the Japanese ministry of economy, trade and industry, she tells SHILPA NAIR ANAND that her stay has helped her understand the idea of Indianness .




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Celebrate life

In the end it was all a maya. The world did not come to an apocalyptic end on December 21 as was predicted by doomsday-mongers, after ‘deciphering’ ancient Mayan hieroglyphs. The world is still alive and kicking! All the more reason to go all out and celebrate life, say a bunch of young achievers from Kerala. They talk to MetroPlus about the phenomenon and their hopes and dreams for 2013. Here’s what they have to say…




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Kicking off soccer dreams

Street children compete for a berth in the Indian team for the Homeless World Cup, 2013, to be played in Poland




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The famous five

Five girls from Kadri Mills Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore, have won laurels for their project at the 20th National Children’s Science Congress. Akila Kannadasan reports




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Biennale tunes

A group of musically inclined youngsters have come together with a song for the KMB




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Igniting scientific temper

At the science exhibition at the Mahatma Montessori Higher Secondary School, students showcased their skills in innovation




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Work hard to grab opportunities, says Y.V. Reddy




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A model experiment

A bunch of young people from Pappampatty village in Tamil Nadu work tirelessly to empower the rural youth by providing them education, employment opportunities and a will to help other needy people. K. JESHI reports




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Don’t evade, answer their questions




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360° minds for the future

Are Indian youth equipped mentally and culturally to face the challenges that the Internet era throws at them?




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Travails of technology

While technology seems to have made life easy for students, an increased dependence on it has made it difficult for them to associate with people outside the virtual world.




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Lending a helping hand

National Service Scheme units in city colleges are reaching out to society in a big way




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Romance in the skies




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Sick of love

Quite a task for a person who is single to make it through Valentine’s Day!




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Time’s a ticking

Milan Vohra, of Mills & Boon fame, talks about her latest novel, Tick Tock We’re 30




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Game for it

P. Balu has brought name and fame to his school, state and country as part of the medal-winning Indian floor hockey team in the Special Olympics




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Pixel perfect

Madurai boys talk about their experience of working in the Oscar winner Life of Pi




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Where’s your gift?

Young Hyderabadis are turning events such as weddings and birthdays into a platform for assisting charitable organisations.




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“Silamban is like a form of meditation”

Aishwarya Manivannan talks about her love for the ancient martial art, handlooms and how she combined the two in a recent popular video




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Cookies for thought

This Tiruchi school shows how baking can prove to be a viable career option for young adults with special needs




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Chennai’s own 10-minute theatre festival is back. Here’s what you can expect

The 10-minute theatre festival, Short + Sweet South India, makes a comeback after two years with enthusiastic participation from new faces and young groups




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Shaping a new generation of green builders

With climate change and the demand to create a responsible and adaptive built environment, is sustainability given enough importance in the classroom?




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Getting the youth on board

Students will now be involved in creating a more sustainable world by influencing the way buildings are built over the next 30 years




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Bengaluru Comic Con: Meet the creators of War and Peas, Brown Paperbag Comics, Bakarmax and more

The creators of War and Peas, Brown Paperbag Comics, Bakarmax and more talk about the growth of the Indian webcomics scene as the stage is set for Bengaluru Comic Con




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‘BTS: Yet To Come’: ARMY in Hyderabad cheers and dances to their favourite tracks

The first day first show of ‘BTS: Yet To Come’ in Hyderabad saw their ardent fans make a beeline to the cinemas