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Committee to probe lapses at the Eden Gardens
With the city left red-faced after a power snag and a poor strip took the fizz out from Sunday's Indian Premier League match here, the West Bengal government on Monday formed a three-member committee to probe the lapses while an annoyed Board of Contron for Cricket in India (BCCI) rushed its pitch committee head to rectify the errors in the 22 yards.
India, China to discuss bilateral and regional issues
India and China will discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues when Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon will meet Chinese Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs He Yafei in the city today....
Speaker disagrees with CJI's views on RTI applicability
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Monday disagreed with Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan's views that the Right to Information Act was not applicable to his office....
WB Bandh remains peaceful, called off in 10 hours
The dawn-to-dusk state-wide strike called jointly by Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its ally Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) in protest against price rise, and Left's anti-people policy, remained peaceful despite affecting life in a major way in West Bengal....
Burney files fresh mercy plea for Sarabjit to Pak Prez
Pakistan's former Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney today filed a fresh mercy petition to President Pervez Musharraf seeking clemency for Indian national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death for alleged involvement in the 1990 blasts in Lahore and Multan...
12-hour shutdown against price rise in WB begins
A 12-hour state-wide shutdown in West Bengal jointly called by the Trinamool Congress and the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) began this morning to protest against the Centre and State Government's inability to control the rising prices of essential commodities....
Quota may take away funds meant for new institutes: Parl Committee
Despite the government's commitment to set up more institutions of higher learning, funds can prove to be a major impediment, as a substantial amount will have to be diverted to implement the other backward classes (OBCs) quota, a Parliamentary Committee has said....
India to ink biggest $2.2 bn defence deal with US
India is set to sign a $2.2 billion deal, its biggest with the US, for eight long-range maritime reconnaissance (LRMR) aircraft, even as the Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta opposed 'intrusiveness' in the use of military hardware the country purchases....
Kalam was ready to appoint Sonia Gandhi as PM in 2004
Ending speculation that has persisted for four years as to whether President A P J Abdul Kalam was unwilling to appoint Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister, it is now being disclosed that he had a letter of appointment ready for her....
Indian envoy to Nepal meets Prachanda
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankhar Mukherjee today held discussion with Communist Party Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) Chairman Prachanda about political developments taking place in the country....
No further postponement of Sarabjit hanging: Pak
The execution of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in bomb attacks in Pakistan, has not been postponed further, a presidential spokesman said today....
Kolkata Night Riders beats Royal Challangers in IPL
Shah Rukh Khan's team Kolkata Knight Riders beat Vijay Mallya's Royal Challengers in the DLF IPL tournament's first match....
India to follow hands-off economic policies: PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said his government has followed 'hands-off' policies and will remain committed to liberalisation. The statement has come amid increasing criticism by the Left parties against the free market forces in the wake of price rise....
India did not misread situation in Nepal
India today said that it did not misread the situation in Nepal, where the Maoists romped to a surprise victory in the recent elections to the Constituent Assembly....
Parallel torch relay by Tibetans steals the show
More than 5000 Tibetans and prominent Indian personalities like George Fernandes, Kiren Rijiju, Ramdas Athavale, Jaya Jaitley, Kirti Azad, Swami Agnivesh and Nafisa Ali held a parallel torch relay, barely a couple of Kilometres from Rajpath - the venue of the main event. The parallel relay, which began at Rajghat at 11 am on Thursday, concluded its around three-kilometre march at Jantar Mantar in the heart of the Capital at around 1.35 pm....
West Bengal still struggles with bird flu
West Bengal has been fighting the bird flu for three months now. But the epidemic shows no signs of going away, erupting in new places every few weeks. Now, Union Health Minister Ramadoss has said that if the outbreak is not controlled properly, India could see its first human case....
Pakistan sets new date for Sarabjit's execution; scheduled on May 1 claims TV report
Sarabjit Singh's fate seems to be sealed as an Indian private TV channel’s report suggests that the Pakistani authorities have issued a fresh death warrant. The report says that according to a new warrant, Sarabjit will be now hanged on the 1st of May at Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail....
Creamy layer to be excluded from ambit of OBC quotas
The Government has decided to exclude the socially and economically advanced among the OBCs, officially called the Creamy Layer, from the ambit of 27 per cent quota for them in higher educational institutions. Speaking to the reporters about the decision taken by the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs on Thursday evening...
Bangladeshi migrants pose threat to internal security
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs in its recent report has noted that the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, present in "large" numbers across the country, pose a grave threat to India's internal security....
Gandhi statue in Leicester to be unveiled by top Indian, Briton
After the city authorities gave its go-ahead for the installation of Mahatma Gandhi's statue in Leicester, a local MP, Keith Vaz announced today that two "very prominent" representatives of India and Britain will unveil the statue....
RBI Guv: Indian financial market not vulnerable to global slowdown
There seems to be more trouble in store for Manmohan Singh's government as the RBI governor Y V Reddy has rejected the suggestion that the Indian financial markets are vulnerable to global turbulence in economies. Amid fears of global slowdown and its adverse impact on the world economy, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today averred that Indian financial market is not vulnerable to overseas developments....
Pak erected nine mobile towers along Indo-Pak border
The Government has said that Pakistan has erected nine mobile towers in its territory along the India-Pakistan border which have security-related implications for India....
Mufti repeats demand for Pakistani currency in Kashmir
Strongly defending his proposal to have dual currency of India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron and former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that it was high time to do so....
Bangladeshi org stalled Moitree Express in Nadia
The failure of intelligence played enough to make the Indian government embarrassed as an organization of the Bangladeshi refugees stalled the inaugural run of the Moitree Express on Monday on its way as threatened....
History recreates after four decades; Dhaka-Kolkata train link resumes
It was perhaps the best way to kick start a fresh new year for Bengalis on either banks of Padma. The Kolkata-Dhaka Moitree Express was on Monday flagged off on Bengali New Year's Day by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, resuming passenger train services between the two neighbouring countries after 43 years....
Poila Baisakh: Traditions fading into oblivion
As the first rays of the morning sun gleamed over West Bengal today, the state entered the year 1415 according to the solar Sakya calendar....
India seeks overhaul of global financial system
India on Sunday called for a thorough overhaul of the global system of financial oversight and regulatory mechanisms to save the developing world from an economic crisis not of their making. ...
President recalls common bond between India, Brazil
President Pratibha Patil, on a state visit to Brazil, has today said that India and Brazil were large democracies and had common historical bond in the form of Portuguese presence in Goa as well as in Brazil during the 17th and 18th centuries....
Despite govt. schemes 20 farmers commit suicides in three days in Vidarbha
Despite the Central Government's unprecedented Rs 600 billion loan waiver, farmers suicides continue unabated in Vidarbha with as many as 20 of them reported from different districts of the region since Friday....
Burney calls for visa-free movement between Indo-Pak
Former Pakistani human rights minister Ansar Burney on Sunday said that India and Pakistan should abolish the visa system to facilitate "unrestricted movement" of people between the two countries....- 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 ...
