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It’s the economy, Mr Singh
The Congress today gently nudged its Prime Minister to get over the nuclear deal and shift his focus to the economy. ...  | Read.. 
 
Govt weighs price options
The UPA top brass went into huddles to find a way to control the price spiral a day after inflation touched a 13-year high, with Sonia Gandhi summoning P. Chidambaram and ...  | Read.. 
 
Madhyamik ‘split’ on hold
Sitting for Madhyamik next year? Don’t forget to brush up on what you learnt in Class IX, too. ...  | Read.. 
 
Bengali woman growls, UK minister grovels
Shami Chakrabarti, an Indian woman born in London of parents who came from Calcutta, did not take it lying down when a Labour cabinet minister more or less accused her of bei ...  | Read.. 
 
Pak mounts mercy pitch
The new Pakistan government today urged President Pervez Musharraf to spare all the 7,000 prisoners on death row in the country, raising hopes for the release of alleged ...  | Read.. 
 
Prepak spreads network
Five arrested militants of the Manipur-based People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (Prepak) had rented houses here in the guise of software professionals to set ...  | Read.. 
 
Peace gets a chance, after 20yrs
Twenty years after they split, the leaders of the two NSCN factions are going to sit face-to-face at the Naga reconciliation meet at Chiang Mai in Thailand next week to d ...  | Read.. 
 
Life’s lessons learnt in the open
It’s a school without a roof. It’s been like this for over 12 years. And to coax students not to drop out, teachers tell them they are following what Tagore adv ...  | Read.. 
 
Land rights din surrounds airport
At a time when the aviation industry is going through a rough patch, the capital’s airport is being drawn into a controversy over land ownership: around 150 villagers no ...  | Read.. 
 
Children look for food in Basudebpur in East Midnapore on Saturday. Water has started receding from the flood-hit areas of East and West Midnapore, bu ...  | Read
 
 
I can only thank Bjorn for his words... but you know Bjorn is not magic
Rafael Nadal
on Bjorn Borg saying that he has overtaken Roger Federer as the Wimbledon favourite
Disappearing daughters: a Punjab shocker
The ratio of surviving girl children to boys has fallen to an all time low of 300 to 1,000 in parts ...  | Read..
BA rejects racist claims
British Airways rejected claims of racism today after supermodel Naomi Campbell, who pleaded guilty ...  | Read..
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Karat courts allies with oil 'myth'
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Fitness fight
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Old man dies marooned on a roof
Floodwaters have started receding from the affected areas of the two Midnapores, but hundreds are s...   | Read.. 
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The interruption fix
Every year, when I hit London, I need to satisfy a whole set of cravings. I need to ingest certain f...   | Read.. 
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Bullish matadors raring to have a go at the Azzurris
Italy go into Sunday's Euro 2008 quarter final against Spain knowing that their group stage form ha...   | Read.. 
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US floods threaten global food prices
Disastrous flooding in the US cornbelt this week will be felt worldwide in higher food prices, farm...   | Read.. 
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Govt bets on RBI steps
The central government is banking on the Reserve Bank's money tightening measures to help curb infl...   | Read..