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Nandigram will have peaceful poll: Bengal CM
Nandigram in East Midnapore district of West Bengal will have a peaceful panchayat poll Sunday, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has asserted.
Better late than never: US removes 'terrorist' tag from Mandela
Fourteen years after Nelson Mandela became South African president after its first democratic elections in 1994, the US House of Representatives has passed a bill to remove his name from its lists of terrorists....
Dasmunshi thunders on Left's advocacy for third front
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's proposal of an 'alternative alliance'or third front at centre, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi on Thursday said, “It may be one of their calculated speculation for which we are not at all concerned.”...
F/A-18 Fighter is IAF's best bet: US Neavy
The race for a $10 billion Indian order for 126 fighters just got hotter with the US Navy enthusiastically batting for the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet...
Decision making has fallen into a bit of disarray in Congress: Arjun
In a veiled criticism of the way decisions are now taken in the party, senior Congress leader and Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh has said that the decision making process has "fallen into a bit of disarray"....
Angry Mamata enters SP's office in Midanpur
Entire District Administration in Midanpur East District was paralyzed as Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee entered the SP office...
CSE slams IMA for endorsing Pepsico product
It was 'very wrong' for the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to have endorsed a particular brand of fruit juice...
Women's quota Bill gives priority to SCs, STs
The Women's Reservation Bill that ensures 33 per cent of seats in Parliament and state assemblies for women is being bitterly contested by some parties...
CID probe ordered into stripping of women at Nandigram
West Bengal government on Tuesday ordered a CID probe into the alleged stripping of three women supporters of the Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) in Nandigram...
Biman Bose rues Congress' demand of poll suspension in Nandigram
eft Front chairman and CPI (M) state secretary Biman Bose flayed Congress demand of suspension of panchayet poll in Nandigram on Tuesday...
UPA-Left's N-talk inconclusive, next round on May 28
The crucial eighth meeting of the United Progressive Alliance-Left Coordination Committee on Indo-US civil nuclear deal today ended without getting a defined outcome....
Must religious beliefs impede development, wonders apex court
The Supreme Court today while hearing arguments on the Ram Setu and a shipping canal project wondered if religious beliefs should be allowed to impede modernisation and development of the country....
US points to India, China for oil price hike too
White House has pointed a finger at India and China for the spike in oil prices even as it sought to clarify President George Bush's remark about Indian middle class contributing to rising food costs. ...
Mukherjee, Tendulkar, Bhosle awarded Padma Vibhushan
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, cricket star Sachin Tendulkar and melody queen Asha Bhosle were among the celebrity recipients of the Padma Vibhushan...
Women's reservation bill to be tabled on Tuesday
The cabinet on Monday night decided to table the long-awaited Women's Reservation Bill...
'Ind-Pak should deal with prisoners' issue on humanitarian grounds'
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said that India and Pakistan should deal with the issue of release of prisoners on "humanitarian grounds"...
Number of Chinese Nuclear Subs cause of concern to India
India today voiced concern over the build-up of Chinese submarines equipped with nuclear arsenals in its neighbourhood...
Govt to finalise draft for Women's Reservation Bill today
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to finalise the roadmap for the Women's Reservation Bill....
India to help Nepal to rehabilitate Maoist cadres
India is likely to offer help to Nepal to rehabilitate Maoist combatants deployed in the cantonments....
BJP demands political space for Kashmiri Hindus in J&
Coming in support of displaced Kashmiri Hindus, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) today said that displaced Kashmiri Pandits need political settlement...
Indo-Pak talks: More cross-LoC bus services on agenda
Keen to take the peace process with Pakistan forward, India is expected to press for launch of more cross-LoC bus services...
BJP slams EC for “censorship” of party's TV ad
Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday was locked in a row with the Election Commission after it allegedly deleted a reference to soaring prices in a party's TV advertisment...Women's Bill may be tabled in ongoing session
Government expressing its keenness to table Women's Bill in Parliament in the ongoing budget session...
Speaker flayed for resorting to Privilages Committee
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has ruffled feathers among some political parties which on Saturday criticised the decision...
Raj ignores police warning, dares govt on north Indians' stand
Defying police warning on making provocative speeches, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday resumed his 'war of words' against north Indians...
Bush's comment on rising food prices 'erroneous': Congress
The Congress today criticised US President George W Bush for blaming the rising prosperity of India's middle class for the global food crisis...
Indian political parties slam Bush's 'imperialist' remarks
India's political parties Saturday joined ranks to slam US President George W. Bush's remark that the burgeoning Indian middle class was contributing to the rising food prices the world over....
Price rise key to national polls schedule: Advani
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani has said the price rise would be the key to the scheduling of the national polls....
India global leader in polio eradication say Experts
India leads the world in the progress towards the target of polio eradication in 2008 - the most dangerous type 1 polio virus and appears closest to its goal...
Chidambaram asks people to have patience on inflation
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today assured the nation that the prices would come down and inflation would be brought under control. ...- Chatwal plans mega hotel projects in Punjab
- WBJEE 2008 - West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination 2008
- 500 TCS staffers resign
- One killed, three injured in Howrah fire
- Three of family found dead
editor
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28 February, 2008 12:12:56
Police arrested two youths on charges of snatching a hand bag of Ms Bilashibala Sahish, minister of state, forest department, near Tikiapara carshed while she ...
rishab
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27 February, 2008 03:42:46
how are we informed that our receipt has been received and processed? n by what date?
rishab
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27 February, 2008 03:42:46
how are we informed that our receipt has been received and processed? n by what date?
Chiranjib
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15 February, 2008 07:33:23
It is very pathetic. Prasenjit(the son) was my friend and he was very polite and down to earth character. I got the news yesterday night ...
vivek
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09 February, 2008 12:51:53
Really it is a great tragedy..for a topper student(hridesh) of maria's day school...why always good people has to sacrifice...i could not find out..and the culprit...of ...
