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Partly cloudy sky with possibility of rain or thundershower in some areas.

Govt tries to douse drought panic

More than a quarter of the 620-plus districts face the threat of a drought this year, raising the spectre of brutal food price increases in the country by December. ... | Read..

Quake in NE
Updated: 13:47 Hrs (IST)

A moderate intensity earthquake shook several parts of the North East early today. ... | Read..

Delhi minister's children down with H1N1
Updated: 12:57 Hrs (IST)

Delhi Food and Civil Supplies Minister Haroon Yusuf's two children have been infected with swine flu. ... | Read..

A Raj Bhavan occupant expelled, not evicted, by CPM

Psst, Prakash Karat. The list of occupants you may want to evict from the Calcutta Raj Bhavan has got longer. ... | Read..

Clean slate for hills

Efforts to resolve the Darjeeling dispute will begin on a clean slate, shedding the vestiges of the Subash Ghisingh era. ... | Read..

Sam, you’ve foxed all those lads

This could hit hard boys who grew up in the 1980s. ... | Read..

3-pronged attack on Maoists

Security forces comprising over 700 armed policemen and led by three superintendents of police have launched a three-pronged combing operation to flush out top Maoist lea ... | Read..

A traffic light shines atop of a police kiosk in Delhi on a rain-darkened Tuesday. (PTI)
Govt tries to douse drought panic

My husband is not secretary of state, I am
Hillary Clinton
asked what her husband Bill Clinton thought about an international financial matter

Mass effect of global downturn
The global economic slowdown appears to have had an unlikely victim — prayer outsourcing. ... | Read..

Hitler handshake
A veteran German sports reporter has claimed that Adolf Hitler did in fact shake hands with Bla ... | Read..

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Nation	More..
Judges different, IIT cutoffs too
The IITs have altered for the third time the formula they claim they used to determine cutoffs for ... \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Kids as Congress monkeys
Slum kids Ladla, Azad and Deepak had a day out at the zoo on Tuesday ' not to see monkeys but to mim... \| Read..

Bengal	More..
Rs 6 lakh for road in air
A new pond was shown where one already existed and a road was conjured out of thin air by a CPM-ru... \| Read..

North Bengal	More..
Hills extend hands for Gorkhaland
Jas Bahadur Rai today started a chain from Gorkha Stadium in Lebong that snaked its way down, shutt... \| Read..

Opinion	More..
Near the tipping point
Ghulam Nabi Azad's observation on India's population growth was a warning that was long overdue. Eve... \| Read..

Sports	More..
Just another day for Abhinav Bindra
August 11 will forever remain a landmark in Indian sport, but for Abhinav Bindra, the first anniver... \| Read..

International	More..
FIR slap on Musharraf
Pakistani police today registered a criminal case against Pervez Musharraf for putting judges under... \| Read..

Business	More..
Jaguar escapes from UK shadow
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the ailing British car maker that the Tatas acquired last year, is close t... \| Read..

Entertainment	More..
Giselli aaj, Harleen kal
Who's that girl? That's all people have been asking after coming out of a screening of Love Aaj Kal.... \| Read..