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Firm in city, lax on fringes

Cops: 1700, caught: 2 autos

The state government has begun a crackdown on old private commercial vehicles, making 11 seizures on Saturday in the Calcutta Metropolitan Area. ... | Read..

Another CPI(M) leader gunned down, five arrested
Updated: August 2; 16:10 Hrs (IST)

Barely hours after Maoists gunned down a CPI(M) activist at Chirugora village under Belpahari police station, another CPI(M) leader was killed by the ultras at Amdanga under ... | Read..

AC chair car heist with ease

A gang picked out three AC chair cars of a popular Janshatabdi Express bound for Howrah and robbed 200 passengers of laptops, mobile phones and jewellery, boarding and le ... | Read..

Poster threat to police station

Deployment of armed police force was intensified at the Kanpur police station, about 70km from here, after Maoists dropped posters vowing to blow it up. ... | Read..

Cops battle rebels in Patamda

Maoists burnt down two vegetable trucks coming from Bengal early this morning to mark the second and last day of their Jharkhand bandh, prompting security forces to lock ... | Read..

CRPF boss in red den

Following directions from the Union home ministry, CRPF special director-general Vijay Raman made a recce to Jhumra Pahar, earlier known as Naxalite training ground, on a ... | Read..

Seats on sale for no-fly day
Airlines offer tickets for August 18, IndiGo pulls out
If the government wants proof of how desperate private airlines are, it need look no farther than their online booking sites. They are selling tickets for the day their plane ... | Read..

Firm in city, lax on fringes

I strongly believe that our diplomacy and our diplomats play a vital role
Nirupama Rao

Saudis to offer Pervez asylum if he wants
Saudi Arabia has said it would consider offering political asylum to former President and army chie ... | Read..

Drug addicts get paid for study
Cambridge University is to pay crack and cocaine addicts for taking part in a study on impact of dr ... | Read..

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