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India’s sick turn West’s guinea pigs

Sections of India’s infirm and sick have emerged easy-to-recruit experimental subjects for US companies testing drugs primarily intended for western markets, a study has indicated. ... | Read..

The hand gets silky wrists

From a naïve, God-fearing boy he had turned an Armani-clad celebrity with an actress on his arm, and from India’s then most-successful captain to a disgraced player ... | Read..

Judges caught in lawyer riot

A stone landed on a judge’s forehead and another judge fell trying to escape police batons as lawyers, blood streaming down their faces, battled in Madras High Court ... | Read..

Youngest domino transplants

Two-year-old Siya and 22-month-old Shourya have been brought together through India’s first and the world’s youngest set of domino liver transplants conducted by ... | Read..

Murder fury singes Imphal

An indefinite curfew was clamped in greater Imphal today as the state capital and the valley burned with anger and grief over the brutal murder of three government staff, ... | Read..

MoU spree on, but jobs hard to come by

Orissa continues to be one of the poorest states in the country, with a haunting unemployment problem — despite the government’s tall claims of rapid industrialisati ... | Read..

Rebels kill three jawans

Maoist guerrillas shot three jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and injured nine state police officers in Kanker district early this morning. ... | Read..

No PC censure for police, BJP fuming

Home minister P. Chidambaram has given a clean chit to Ranchi police over last week’s lathicharge on a BJP demonstration, but expressed his “sympathies” fo ... | Read..

Shourya (left) and Siya (right) with their mothers at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Thursday. Picture by Prem Singh
Youngest domino transplants

I want to give back something to the nation
Mohammed Azharuddin
on joining politics

Hurried baton change in US embassy
A case of political impropriety, or is it a matter of critical diplomatic necessity? The UPA go ... | Read..

Racist hint in NY Post dead chimp cartoon
A New York Post cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a ... | Read..

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Teachers face central ban on caning
Teachers who physically hurt or mentally harass students will be punished under the Right to Free a... \| Read..

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42 pressure points choke city
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Bengal asks for Maidan, Antony shy
Bengal sports minister Subhas Chakraborty today met A.K. Antony and demanded the Maidan be handed o... \| Read..

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Five job 'cheats' in net
Five men were arrested today on charges of cheating unemployed youths by offering them jobs against... \| Read..

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Falling out together
How long does it take for a nation-state to either collapse into utter chaos and anarchy or fragment... \| Read..

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Ricky puts country before IPL
Ricky Ponting on Thursday announced that he will skip this year's Indian Premier League (IPL), star... \| Read..

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Swat pact with militants hangs in limbo
A controversial, closely watched peace agreement designed to end Taliban violence in the scenic Swa... \| Read..

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Stage set for Satyam open bid
The Company Law Board (CLB) today permitted Satyam Computer to induct one or more strategic investo... \| Read..

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Frugality is the new black
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