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Calcutta Weather
Temperature
Min : 27.5°C (+0)
Max : 36.7°C (+1)
Relative Humidity:
Max : 91% Min : 44%
Sunrise : 4:56 AM
Sunset : 6:11 PM
Today
Partly cloudy sky with possibility of rain/thundershowers towards afternoon.
Maximum temperature is likely to be around 37 degree Celsius.
 
CIMA Gallary
 
Quota protesters fire without gun
Striking medical students today scrambled to intensify their agitation against quotas without any clear-cut plan of action as it began to dawn on them that their campaign needed better coordination and more public support. ...  | Read.. 
 
Flames of mutiny engulf OIL units
Contract workers who rose in mutiny against Oil India Ltd in Assam two days ago set ablaze a fourth effluent-treatment pit and a gas pipeline today, forcing the company to fi ...  | Read.. 
 
Cloud on Congress heartland drive
The Congress might have to rework its revival plan for Uttar Pradesh following the Centre’s decision last night to introduce reservation for the Other Backward Classes in higher education. ...  | Read.. 
 
Samba in Swiss idyll
Quiet lakeside resort falls to Brazil charm
Going by the Samba dancing and other street festivities dipped in yellow-green, you’d think the World Cup final was this afternoon. ...  | Read.. 
 
A student on hunger strike at AIIMS reads Wings of Fire written by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam who the protesters met on Wednesday. (AFP)
Quota protesters fire without gun
 
 
The apolitical nature of this movement is its strength and its weakness

Binod Khaitan
associate professor at AIIMS
Oil boss on the skids
Subir Raha, the ONGC chairman who fought a very public battle with former petroleum minister Ma ...  | Read..
Arjun’s team gets cracking
Arjun Singh’s ministry has set the ball rolling on introducing 27 per cent quota for Other ...  | Read..
NationMore.. 
CPM for smaller quota in Bengal
Bengal will have an Other Backward Classes quota in higher education, but it's likely to be less...   | Read.. 
CalcuttaMore.. 
Merit frenzy hits the road
Two strategic roadblocks, and a thousand medical students and junior doctors managed to paralyse...   | Read.. 
BengalMore.. 
Exercise to shed flab resumes
Within a week of being sworn in, the seventh Left Front government is back on the reforms track,...   | Read.. 
North BengalMore.. 
Tourists suffer as drivers protest
Many tourists remained stranded throughout the day in Darjeeling while others were forced to miss...   | Read.. 
OpinionMore.. 
Questions of travel
Should we have stayed at home,/ wherever that may be?   | Read.. 
SportsMore.. 
'The boys are moving away from the Brian Lara (only) scenario'
Trinidadian legend Brian Lara has raised the pitch for the last two ODIs of the ongoing Digicel...   | Read.. 
InternationalMore.. 
Human flu infection alarm
Limited human-to-human transmission of bird flu might have occurred in an Indonesian family and...   | Read.. 
BusinessMore.. 
Nerves taut on Thursday thought
It's turning into a dance macabre ? and the zig-zag course of the sensex has left investors...   | Read.. 
At LeisureMore.. 
Soumitra to star in British Asian film
Soumitra Chatterjee is being lined up to play the role of a father in what will be his first...   | Read..