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Goody-goody express

Mamata offers gift to avert rail blockades

Mamata Banerjee today used the symbolism of blockade-free railway tracks to pitch herself as a builder and bury the street-fighter image that pays dividends in Opposition but can become a liability in power. ... | Read..

Centre & TN govt fail to protect fishermen: Gadkari

Updated 14:00 hrs (IST)

BJP president Nitin Gadkari today alleged the Centre and Tamil Nadu governments ... | Read..

Harshad Mehta case: I-T dept to get 1995.66-cr dues

Updated 13:40 hrs (IST)

Keeping with an interim order passed by the Supreme Court in connection with the disbursement... | Read..

Bring on Ganga for your daily milk

Economic honey may flow in India next year. But if the country wants to become the blessed land of milk and honey, it needs to breed many more Gangas and seek the counsel of ... | Read..

Mrs Boss caught with gold bricks

The wife of a top PSU boss has been caught collecting bribe in gold bricks, the CBI said today, the charge suggesting that the corrupt remain as audacious as ever in spite of ... | Read..

Capital cool; steel, coal hubs furious

Jharkhand was pleasantly surprised that Mamata Banerjee’s railway budget had four new trains for the state and held out a promise that pending projects to lay new tr ... | Read..

Jharkhand finishes fifth in Games

Hosts Jharkhand rounded up its campaign at the momentous 34th National Games today by bagging as many as 33 gold, 26 silver and 37 bronze in all, the haul catapulting its pos ... | Read..

Manipur gets rail gift for Trinamul bypoll win

Manipur got the promise of its first train, probably as Mamata Banerjee’s gift for Trinamul Congress’s byelection win in the state, but the Northeast as a whole has ... | Read..

THE TELEGRAPH NATIONAL DEBATE

The goody-goody googly

In the opinion of the house, India will be better run if politicians are left out of the government ... | Read..

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Goody-goody express

We have given projects to entire country... Bengal is not outside India
Mamata Banerjee
on charges that the rail budget favours Bengal

Defence counsel must in criminal trial: SC
The Supreme Court has held that no person facing criminal charges should be tried in the absenc ... | Read..

Shourie faces CBI quiz
Arun Shourie, who served as telecom minister in the NDA regime, today appeared before the CBI i ... | Read..

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Air and sea evacuation from Libya
Two commando-protected naval ships will leave for trouble-torn Libya tomorrow, while two Air India ... \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Mamata sops and show
Mamata Banerjee has promised Calcuttans a seamless railway connectivity that will allow commuters to... \| Read..

Bengal	More..
Left grins and bears Didi budget
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee have hailed Mamata Banerjee's b... \| Read..

Bihar	More..
Slaps shower after student's seat cry
An eight-year-old's plea to her social studies teacher to get her seat vacated in her classroom ear... \| Read..

North Bengal	More..
Class boycott cry for Sibchu probe
The Gorkha Janmukti Vidyarthi Morcha has called upon all hill students to boycott classes from Mond... \| Read..

Opinion	More..
Dream teams
With the World Cup in mind, I sat down with the journalist and cricket nut, Rajdeep Sardesai \| Read..

Sports	More..
Viru hit at nets, but will play
After Yuvraj Singh, it was vice-captain Virender Sehwag's turn to be hit at the Team India nets. \| Read..

International	More..
Protesters hit by hail of gunfire in Tripoli march
Militias loyal to Muammar Gaddafi opened fire today on protesters streaming out of mosques and marc... \| Read..

Business	More..
Blueprint for resurgence
The Indian economy could grow at a rate of 9.25 per cent next year ' clawing back to the heady leve... \| Read..

Entertainment	More..
Revenge in braids
That old-time American religion of vengeance runs like a river through True Grit, a comic-serious ta... \| Read..

Jharkhand	More..
Bow brigade bounces back
United they stand the avenger archers. Rising from the morass of star-crossed individual performanc... \| Read..

Northeast	More..
AGP olive branch to parties
The alliance with the BJP severed and unification of the Opposition not in sight, the AGP is bankin... \| Read..

Orissa	More..
Channel choke-a-block with waste
The natural drainage channel no. 6 has been badly polluted with people dumping garbage into it indi... \| Read..