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Jewel varsities hit Brahmin bump
The Prime Minister’s plans of setting up a new class of universities to specifically compete with global institutions are being held up by differences between key government arms. ...  | Read.. 
 
Protest jams food highway
A backlash against alleged police excesses today spiralled out of Maoist strongholds and crippled a key highway that fills Calcutta’s food basket, holding up some 40 ...  | Read.. 
 
India ‘too big’ for aid boots
India no longer merits UK government aid totalling hundreds of millions of pounds because the country should now be considered a developed nation, MPs have said during an imp ...  | Read.. 
 
Samosa at Rs 2500? Let’s go Dutch
Most things about the Sonepur cattle fair are jumbo, even sometimes the samosa prices. ...  | Read.. 
 
Plank against sex pests
If Gousia Islam wins from Bandipore, it could be bad news for several Kashmir VIPs. She wants to put them behind bars. ...  | Read.. 
 
Students recover, cops still clueless
Even four days after food poisoning killed five children at a Bero school, police are yet to make any headway in the case. ...  | Read.. 
 
Chopper attack grounds poll team
The Maoists’ firing on an IAF chopper in Chhattisgarh last Friday left more than 41 polling parties in the lurch, as pilots refused to fly helicopters. Result: sever ...  | Read.. 
 
Yuvraj Singh, who wore a back brace on Friday and piled up runs in the first one-dayer against England, at the poolside in an Indore hotel on Sunday. ...  | Read
 
 
It will take about 300 years to clear the backlog of cases even if no case is registered from today
BS Chauhan
Chief Justice, Orissa High Court
What women really think
Women today see balancing their work and home lives as their biggest challenge and Margaret Tha ...  | Read..
Global table changeth
The stirrings of a change in global equations were in evidence in the White House State Dining ...  | Read..
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Eighteen Indian sailors were released today after being held hostage for two months by Somali pirat...   | Read.. 
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Lax security at soft spots
Terror is lurking around the corner but Calcutta is lolling.   | Read.. 
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Khaki cowers before bow brigade
Armies of tribals carrying bows and arrows are stalking Jhargram, Lalgarh and Belpahari, leaving po...   | Read.. 
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CM announces medical college for Malda
Malda will soon have a medical college once a proposal from the state government got the clearance...   | Read.. 
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Something of a miracle
The tension of Election Day in Washington, when 92 per cent of the district of Columbia voted for Ba...   | Read.. 
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Million-dollar first for Jeev Milkha Singh
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Lanka pounds Tiger defence den
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Unitech eyes $100m via share sale
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Destiny's Child
When Subhash Ghai signed Katrina Kaif as the leading lady of Yuvvraaj opposite Salman Khan, everyone...   | Read..