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Today
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Diwali diplomacy II cuts force
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight unveiled a Diwali gift ahead of his visit to Jammu and Kashmir next week, ordering a reduction of troops and signalling that New Delhi is sincerely contemplating a peace offensive. ...  | Read.. 
 
Varsity boost for minorities
The Union cabinet has decided to promulgate an ordinance for the creation of a national commission to grant direct affiliation of minority-run institutions to scheduled universities. ...  | Read.. 
 
Uma posters on poll pyre
Her stamp is all over, so the BJP leadership is planning an Uma bonfire. ...  | Read.. 
 
?Tiger India? at Bush-Blair table
Country?s growing economic strength on US-bound British PM?s agenda
The impact of India, now classed as a ?tiger economy?, will be on the agenda when Tony Blair is given the honour of becoming the first foreign leader to meet President Georg ...  | Read.. 
 
Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam-ul Haq, who are in Calcutta to participate in the BCCI?s Platinum Jubilee one-dayer at the Eden Gardens on Saturday, inaugurate Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly’s restaurant Sourav’s: The Food Pavilion on Thursday.
 
 
Our father is dead

FATHI ABU ADNAN
A Gaza construction worker
on Yasser Arafat
After Arafat, hope and fear
Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon who symbolised his people?s decades-old struggle for an indepen ...  | Read..
Uma acts banished daughter
The BJP suggested it was prepared to reconsider suspension, but Uma Bharti appeared to be in a ...  | Read..
Nation More.. 
Festival light on F-16 sale, Bush visit
The White House was lit up yesterday for Diwali, but the nearly 100 In ...   | Read.. 
 
Bengal More.. 
Salary slash notice final
The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government will publish a notification dec ...   | Read.. 
 
International More.. 
Heirs in place, so are risks
Palestinians moved swiftly to establish a collective leadership today and ...   | Read.. 
 
Sport More.. 
Dravid may again have double role
Thanks to the air tickets? fiasco, which ensured many players (and coa ...   | Read.. 
 
Calcutta More.. 
Festive frenzy, spend spree
Durga puja is past, Christmas is some distance away but Diwali is here a ...   | Read.. 
 
Opinion More.. 
Policy of the principle
Only a handful of old fogeys still believe in quoting Oliver Goldsmith ...   | Read.. 
 
Business More.. 
Govt unleashes bank-reform blitz
Finance minister P. Chidambaram today proposed a series of banking reforms ...   | Read.. 
 
At Leisure More.. 
160 more for Cartland fans
You could be forgiven for thinking that, after writing over 720 novels ...   | Read..