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Pass bill, fail a generation

Left govt pursues parallel school system, future of 18 lakh at stake

The Bengal government today pushed through a controversial bill that will empower the state panchayat department to create a parallel school education system with nearly 20,000 rural schools. ... | Read..

Customs duty on Onion import reduced to zero

Updated December 22, 2010, 16hrs (IST)

With onion prices skyrocketing to as much as Rs 85 per kg in some retail markets, the Indian government today said ... | Read..

PM stings Pawar with onion order

The Prime Minister’s Office has given direct orders to top officials of Sharad Pawar’s department to get cracking after the food minister said it would take ... | Read..

Cabin courier lands in jail

A 27-year-old Indian-origin airhostess working for Air Canada was sent to prison for eight years yesterday after being convicted of smuggling 4kg of cocaine worth £240,000 in ... | Read..

PC deadline for projects

Home minister P. Chidambaram today set deadlines for long-pending infrastructure projects in Manipur during a meeting with chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh. ... | Read..

CBI focus on Shahi

The CBI is eagerly awaiting prosecution sanction to file chargesheets against seven people, including former health minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi and former health secretary Pr ... | Read..

Maoist laboratory busted in Bokaro

A joint team of CRPF and Bokaro police today unearthed a well-equipped chemical laboratory run by the CPI(Maoist) in Chandrapura industrial area, 30km from Bokaro steel c ... | Read..

Pass bill, fail a generation

No civilised state can hide terrorists as law-abiding citizens
Dmitry Medvedev
Russian President

Rare flutter of Silvery Blue
Scientists at the High Altitude Regional Centre of Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered ... | Read..

Tasteful to tacky, take your pick
Indians coming to London for the royal wedding ought to keep a bit of cash aside for souvenirs ... | Read..

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Party says go slow, karma yogi on track
Murli Manohar Joshi seems unstoppable. \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Purr and grrr in festive week
Lalbazar is set to lift the five-month-old Cinderella code for the festive week starting Christmas E... \| Read..

Bengal	More..
Congress tolerance sermon to seal alliance
The senior Congress leader in charge of Bengal today said the "alliance with Trinamul had to be str... \| Read..

Bihar	More..
City left crying over onion prices
Amit Ranjan and his friends have suddenly lost their appetite for tandoori chicken. The spicy onion... \| Read..

North Bengal	More..
Threat again, this time in Cong belt
The Trinamul Congress today asserted that in next year's summer polls it would contest most of the ... \| Read..

Opinion	More..
Switching channels
To judge the outcome of the Chinese premier's visit to India last week, it is first necessary to cho... \| Read..

Sports	More..
Chawla is brought back from the cold
That Piyush Chawla, 21, can be counted upon to contribute with the bat and save runs in the field h... \| Read..

International	More..
Instant makeover for boring email
Signs you're an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photo... \| Read..

Business	More..
Jindals get control of Ispat
Steel baron Sajjan Jindal has snapped up a controlling stake in Ispat Industries, the ailing, debt-... \| Read..

Entertainment	More..
I DON'T WANT TO BECOME A WOMAN
Your cross-dressing has always raised eyebrows. Will Aarekti Premer Galpo give people more reason to... \| Read..

Jharkhand	More..
CRPF to move out of schools by Jan. 9
Twenty temporary CRPF camps operating out of government schools and hostels in rural areas of the s... \| Read..

Northeast	More..
Onions make buyers cry
The way onion prices are spiralling, one no longer needs to cut the bulb to shed tears. \| Read..

Orissa	More..
Bird-hit effect reaches slums
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to carry out a sustained cleaning operation... \| Read..