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Ambani armour for Oberois

Mukesh Ambani has stepped in as a white knight to help Prithvi Raj Singh (Biki) Oberoi, the 80-year-old chairman of hotel chain owner EIH Ltd, to ward off a hostile takeover threat from Calcutta-based cigarette-to-hotels conglomerate ITC Ltd. ... | Read..

SC notice to accused in Bhopal gas leak case

Updated August 31, 2010 15:40hrs (IST)

The Supreme Court today issued notices to all the accused in Bhopal gas leak case on a petition by the CBI seeking to restore against them the stringent charge of culpable homicide ... | Read..

India declares additional USD 20 mn aid to Pak

Updated August 31, 2010 15:30hrs (IST)

India today announced an additional USD 20 million assistance to Pakistan which is grappling with the worst floods in recent history of the region ... | Read..

Operation started to trace abducted policemen

Updated August 31, 2010 15hrs (IST)

Security forces have launched a massive combing operation in the jungles of Bihar's Lakhisarai district to trace the four policemen kidnapped by Maoists. ... | Read..

At 125kmph, Rajdhani engine jumps rail

A Rajdhani Express’s engine was derailed, loose Pandrol clips were strewn around and a disaster was just averted in Bengal this morning. ... | Read..

Letdown for ladies in tax equality

Income tax has buried gender bias but women are unlikely to celebrate. ... | Read..

Archie breaks through ethnic formula, bags Emmy

Archie Panjabi, the British actress of Indian origin who made her name in Bend it Like Beckham and “likes doing Indian things but sometimes it’s nice to do s ... | Read..

Tiger panel seeks report on forest road

The Delhi-based National Tiger Conservation Authority — the apex body for tiger conservation in the country — today asked the Assam forest department for a status report ... | Read..

Another FIR shock for Koda

Already weighed down by money laundering charges, Madhu Koda was today the subject of another vigilance bureau FIR accusing the former chief minister and a host of senior ... | Read..

SC boon for ex-JSEB chief

The Supreme Court reinstated H.B. Lal as chairman of Jharkhand State Electricity Board today, but the 83-year-old found no respite as the state vigilance bureau named him ... | Read..

Pothole protest clamp on 1500 buses

Around 1,500 private buses that ferry nearly 1 lakh passengers daily will stay off the roads in the three districts of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar indefinitel ... | Read..

PRS Obero
Ambani armour for Oberois

I can be a gentleman up to a point
Amitabh Bachchan
on derogatory messages posted in his blog

J&K deaths highest since 90s
Death is a mere statistic in Kashmir but this one is likely to trouble Omar Abdullah for a whil ... | Read..

Portrait of an artist as the creator of ‘animal farm’
Gautam Khamaru didn’t know that he could draw till he was six years old, a student of Class I. ... | Read..

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Maoists mow down divided forces, force surrender of arms in Bihar
Seven security personnel were killed in an encounter with Maoists in Bihar on Sunday and several in... \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Rajdhani ticket, local train
Croissant, cheese omelette and steaming tea for breakfast followed by shock and apathy served cold s... \| Read..

Bengal	More..
Station left unmanned for rebel fear
At least eight passenger trains stopped today at an unmanned station in Purulia whose staff had fle... \| Read..

Bihar	More..
Govt sleeps, people stay awake
Where the government fails, the common man spends sleepless nights. \| Read..

North Bengal	More..
CID names 30, gives Morcha seniors a miss
The CID today submitted a chargesheet before a Darjeeling court alleging that 30 Gorkha Janmukti Mo... \| Read..

Opinion	More..
Growls and whimpers
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Afridi knew what the world didn't
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China banks show Wall Street cracks
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