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	Temperature Min : 27.90°C (+2) Max : 34.20°C (+2)
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Partly cloudy sky. Maximum temperature likely to be around 34°C.

Rush for single medical entrance

A single common entrance test for undergraduate and postgraduate medical colleges across India is expected to begin in 2011, an apex panel of doctors regulating medical education announced today. ... | Read..

Community softens Trinamul

Leaders of the Sikh community have appealed to political parties not to make Gurjant Singh a pawn, prompting the Trinamul Congress to say it will have no objection if the ... | Read..

Hearts bleed but not enough to melt

Bleeding hearts no longer appear to be working for Pakistan despite the latest appeal from Angelina Jolie. ... | Read..

Cop build-up on boundary

Tension mounted along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary as police personnel from both the states stood eyeball to eyeball at Charaipung in Sivasagar district today and the ... | Read..

Panchayats, sport in Dec. race

Busy tackling drought, Raj Bhavan is now caught between holding two landmark events scheduled for December: Jharkhand’s first-ever panchayat polls or the chance to h ... | Read..

Territory, tenure delay deal

The contentious issues of territory, tenure and composition of the interim set-up for the Darjeeling hills remained unresolved in Delhi today, but the participants in the ... | Read..

Pop! A black hole in the middle of road to Writers’ ... | Read

The Laws (of Cricket) are ‘an ass’!
Shashi Tharoor
on Virender Sehwag being denied a century at the Dambulla ODI

‘Great’ Games ahead, says Sheila
Sheila Dikshit today expressed confidence that Delhi would eventually deliver a “great ... | Read..

Street culture footprint in early talkies
Writer-artist Madhuja Mukherjee won over her small but attentive audience at Studio21, blending narr ... | Read..

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Mamata land icon in heartland
The 168km-long Yamuna Express Highway, running above swathes of bajra and paddy fields, embodies an... \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Ground beneath city crumbles
Almost 40 per cent of the motorable roads in the city are prone to subsidence with the British-era b... \| Read..

Bengal	More..
Job hunger clouds Games power unit
The hunger for jobs in Bengal burst again today with 1,500 villagers halting a Damodar Valley Corpo... \| Read..

Bihar	More..
Greed spurs crime in cold blood
When 30-year-old Aarti Gupta, wife of furniture dealer Sanjiv Kumar Gupta, opened the door of her h... \| Read..

North Bengal	More..
Threat to shut hill power plants
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today threatened to shut down the two major hydro electricity projects i... \| Read..

Opinion	More..
Arms and the nation
"Happy 15th," an Indian American greeted me on Sunday at a reception at the residence of the Indian ... \| Read..

Sports	More..
SLC is all set to act firmly
Three decades after Greg Chappell directed younger brother Trevor to bowl the last delivery of an O... \| Read..

International	More..
57 killed in Baghdad suicide bombing
At least 57 recruits and soldiers were killed and 123 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up... \| Read..

Business	More..
Hint of WTO duel over visa fee
India considers the US work visa fee hike a "protectionist" move and could approach the World Trade... \| Read..

Entertainment	More..
Close-Up
10.55pm. The Gui Zhou fish at Chinoiserie has just been ordered. The BB buzzes. When it says 'Pepsi... \| Read..

Orissa	More..
Toxic fumes take breath away
The rise in the number of vehicles in the state capital is leaving behind a trial of toxic fumes, w... \| Read..