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Calcutta Weather
Temperature
Min : 25.1°C (-1)
Max : 34.4°C (-2)
Rainfall : 0.1 mm
Relative Humidity:
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Sunrise : 4:59 AM
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Today
Partly cloudy sky with possibility of rain or thunderclouds in some areas. Maximum temperature is likely to be around 35 degree Celsius.
 
 
Piece of paper lights quota fire
A piece of A3-size paper has created havoc in Delhi and much of the rest of the country over reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in higher educational institutions. ...  | Read.. 
 
Support swells for protest
Some 200 medicos protesting against reservations began an indefinite hunger strike on the AIIMS lawns today, boosted by support from their peers in other states as well as e ...  | Read.. 
 
Kanyakumari to Siachen’s secular heights
A Bengali officer whose Tamil is better than his Hindi, a Jat commander from Haryana, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims from Jammu and Kashmir, Buddhists from Ladakh ? the composition of the Indian military forces ranged against ...  | Read.. 
 
Opal passes the pavement test
Plagiarism gives a push to sales of pirated copies of Kaavya’s novel
Kaavya Viswanathan got caught, got pulled off distribution, got pirated and sold very well. ...  | Read.. 
 
A student at an anti-reservation rally in Bangalore. (AFP)
Piece of paper lights quota fire
 
 
Everything is okay with Asim, so it is with Subhas

Jyoti Basu
Shaken, Shayan heads to Delhi
Actor-model Shayan Munshi, the key witness in the Jessica Lal murder who was arrested and freed ...  | Read..
CPM suffers labour pain
The CPM’s problems with ministry formation go beyond Asim Dasgupta and Subhas Chakraborty. ...  | Read..
NationMore.. 
Big Two for middle path, Arjun rigid
The Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi are believed to favour Rahul Gandhi's call for a "middle path"...   | Read.. 
CalcuttaMore.. 
Add lane for car flow
As part of the scheme to put Calcutta's burgeoning traffic on the fast track, the Buddhadeb...   | Read.. 
BengalMore.. 
Mamata 'conspiracy theory' in stock-taking
Mamata Banerjee today said she was "a victim of a deep-rooted conspiracy hatched by the state...   | Read.. 
North BengalMore.. 
Stage set for clash over prestige seat
Barely days after the counting of votes for the Assembly elections in the state, the warring camps...   | Read.. 
OpinionMore.. 
Keeping the pledge
The principles for nuclear non-proliferation were first enunciated by India in 1965, yet India...   | Read.. 
SportsMore.. 
Surely, each of us is entitled to an opinion, says a senior
Even if everybody in Team India may not have been impressed by Virender Sehwag's perfectly...   | Read.. 
InternationalMore.. 
Scandal threatens to topple French Top II
When a squad of gendarmes raided the home of Gen Philippe Rondot, a former intelligence officer...   | Read.. 
BusinessMore.. 
Bonus icing for bourses
Indian companies are sharing their spoils of success by scooping up dollops of bonus shares for...   | Read.. 
At LeisureMore.. 
Ta-ta tea, coffee is China's new cuppa
For centuries, the Chinese have delighted in the simple rituals of making and serving tea. Now...   | Read..