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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. ...
Cabinet nod for full membership of international migration body
India will soon be a full member of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)...
BJP calls nationwide strike on Friday over inflation
Friday is all set to be a day of trouble for the shopkeepers as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called a nation wide strike over the issue of price rise...
Rag pickers demand human rights on Labour Day
Hundreds of rag picking children staged a protest in the Capital today demanding human rights on the occasion of the International Workers' Day or Labour Day....
Govt takes steps on Labour Day for unorganized sector workers
The government has taken several measures on the occasion of Labour Day for unorganised sector workers for improving social security...
Howrah , an inhuman city - man left to die on road
Citizens of Howrah show criminal indifference; man left to die on road...
Indian doctors win historic legal battle against UK govt
Indian doctors fighting for job parity with European Union medicos won a landmark verdict against the British government on Wednesday...
India willing to review 1950 treaty with Nepal
Foreign Affairs Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on Wednesday said that India was willing to review the 1950 Indo-Nepal peace and friendship treaty under the present circumstances...
'Indians will eat what they need'
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma, told reporters today that Indians will eat what they need....PMO did not issue any order to help Baalu: Deora
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had not issued any orders to help a firm owned by Shipping and Road Transport Minister T R Baalu's son...
'Do not visit Darjeeling this summer'
Tourists should not visit Darjeeling - the popular hill station of West Bengal - this summer due to unrest, the state's Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Ashok Bhattacharya said today....
IPI pipeline to be finalized soon, says Ahmadinejad
India and Iran have put their negotiation on fast track and agreed that oil ministers of the three countries (India,Pakistan and Iran) will submit their final reports within 45 days...
N-deal likely under new US president: expert
An American expert on South Asia, Bruce Riedel, who has served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), says the stalled US-India nuclear agreement is likely to be approved next year under a new US president....- 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 ...
