CHENNAI: Half a dozen eye hospitals in India are collaborating with a research centre here to create the inner layer of the cornea, the vital window of the human eye. It may allow 14,000 eye transplants a year.

12. Stay of Removal and Voluntary Departure. Filing of PFR does not stay deportation "unless the court orders otherwise." INA §242(b)(3)(B). The PFR must be accompanied by a stay of removal.

SRINAGAR/JAMMU: With separatists suspending their strike call for three days, life in Kashmir Valley, disrupted for over a week due to the agitation over "economic blockade", limped back towards normalcy.

VILNIUS: Dinner with a professor of Indology. That evening in Vilnius, the capital of Lithunia, my itinerary read rather trite. As is wont I hastily conjured the image of a bearded man with a few wrinkles and a mop of salt-ed hair

On 31 July, India's TATA an-nounced its withdrawal from a US$3 billion investment plan for Bangladesh. After four years of negotiations with the Indian conglomerate, the Bangladeshi government failed to reach a consensus with TATA executives over the gas supply assurance.

Arthur Osborne (1906-1970) was a British disciple of Ramana Maharishi, a towering example of an ascetic living a family life. A graduate of Oxford and a lover of learning, he had prepared for what would have been a brilliant career in teaching. Yet he was compelled to follow his inner longing to experience the Supreme Reality.

BEIJING: Pugilist Akhil Kumar failed to penetrate the solid defenses of his Moldovan opponent Gojan Veaceslav and crashed out in the quarterfinal of 54kg category in Beijing Olympic Games, dashing India's medal hopes.