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At 20 per cent, a 30-year high

A grey, shivered and mostly desolate day — but it’s Christmas Eve and Srinagar has got its much-awaited gift: the polls are finally over, people are rid of eight weeks of recurrent curfews, an unprecedented security bandobast and, most of all, of an enactment most saw as an imposition. ... | Read..

Unguided missiles in war of words

Words like unguided missiles have raised the spectre of an air war between India and Pakistan. ... | Read..

Engineer death tied to Maya bash

An engineer was beaten to death allegedly by a BSP MLA and his henchmen for refusing to contribute Rs 50 lakh for chief minister Mayavati’s birthday celebrations nex ... | Read..

‘Indian held’

An Indian national has been arrested in Lahore in connection with a blast in which a woman was killed on Wednesday, the Pakistan daily Dawn reported. ... | Read..

Extra cover for Orissa

Prodded by the Centre and still recovering from the Kandhamal shock, the Orissa government has made elaborate security arrangements for a peaceful Christmas. ... | Read..

A woman waits to cast her vote outside a polling station in Srinagar on Wednesday. (AFP)
At 20 per cent, a 30-year high

I am friends with Salman as well as Shah Rukh
Aamir Khan

God save Queen’s Christmas
Next year’s Christmas message of goodwill on British television may well come from the Lashkar ... | Read..

Xmas onus on Naveen
On Christmas Eve, Union home minister P. Chidambaram put the onus of maintaining peace in Oriss ... | Read..

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