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Deal at hand as stars stall Didi

The cloud over the alliance between the Trinamul Congress and the Congress dissipated late tonight after Mamata Banerjee spoke to Pranab Mukherjee and is believed to have gone more than halfway to accommodate the national party. ... | Read..

Mamata announces candidates for West Bengal Assembly polls

Updated 19:10hrs (IST)

Trinamool Congress on Friday unilaterally announced candidates for 228 constituencies for the Assembly elections in West Bengal, leaving 64 seats to Congress and remaining two ... | Read..

Even if worst unfolds, why I’m proud to be in Japan

It began with a scattering of white flakes and a greying of the sky above the mountains. The road to the coast became slushy, then snowy, and soon the car was lurching on cry ... | Read..

Permit-less Americans glide into Sikkim net

Two American paragliders, whose purported online profiles list stellar exploits in the US and Asia, sailed across the border into Sikkim from Nepal without permits and to ... | Read..

Loan blow, PF boost

Home and auto loan rates are expected to rise in April but provident fund subscribers stand to gain. ... | Read..

RDX used in blast, say experts

Forensic experts today confirmed that Ulfa militants had used powerful explosives like RDX and ammonium nitrate to trigger the IED explosion inside Rajiv Bhawan compound ... | Read..

MLAs want pay hike two times over

Jharkhand MLAs want a pay hike — almost treble of what their counterparts in Bihar and Delhi take home today. ... | Read..

Barua asks Arabinda to return

The Paresh Barua faction of Ulfa today asked the Arabinda Rajkhowa group to return to the organisation and lead the outfit from the front again. ... | Read..

Rs 4100cr deal in state kitty

The state today bagged investment proposals worth Rs 4,150 crore and received another 20 offers pegged at Rs 74,931.83 crore, as chief minister Arjun Munda kicked off a secon ... | Read..

Cash for votes row in House

The Opposition today sought the resignation of the Manmohan Singh government, citing a WikiLeaks report that referred to cash for votes during the 2008 confidence vote th ... | Read..

Water bombing

I didn’t think about who I was facing
Somdev Dev Varman
on his match with Nadal

Back home with Japan lessons
Indian expatriates arriving from Japan following the earthquake and tsunami say that amid all the d ... | Read..

‘Extraordinary’ lock on Ali
The Supreme Court today ordered Hasan Ali Khan back in the Enforcement Directorate’s custo ... | Read..

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WikiLeaks grist for corruption mill
UPA II's tryst with taint and trouble was refreshed today by the publication of a WikiLeaks cable s... \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Unity failure in union poll
The Students' Federation of India retained the reins of Jadavpur University's arts faculty union on ... \| Read..

Bengal	More..
Trinamul, CPM and statistics
CPM "martyrs" since the 2009 Lok Sabha polls: 380. Trinamul Congress "martyrs": 200 \| Read..

Bihar	More..
Billboard blow to civic body coffer
Large billboards beside the capital streets are aplenty but they do not add a penny to the revenue ... \| Read..

North Bengal	More..
Morcha student threat
The student wing of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today vowed to stop GNLF chief Subash Ghisingh from ... \| Read..

Opinion	More..
Favourite places
With the Supreme Court coming down hard on the government and the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, ta... \| Read..

Sports	More..
Ireland, Dutch in battle for pride and supremacy
A defeat by 131 runs suggests a no-contest, but Ireland in fact had the game under control for the ... \| Read..

International	More..
High radiation hinders emergency work
Amid widening alarm in the US and elsewhere about Japan's nuclear crisis, military fire trucks bega... \| Read..

Business	More..
April date for costlier loans
Home and auto loan rates are expected to rise in April. \| Read..

Entertainment	More..
'For me, they're like a single film'
How do you feel about the fact that your second film Game is releasing (on April 1) before your firs... \| Read..

Jharkhand	More..
Expat sons of Japan fret and fear
There's a tsunami of worry rocking the salubrious spring of Jamshedpur. \| Read..

Northeast	More..
Post-poll tie-up and a new voice
The Opposition BJP has said it was not averse to forging an alliance with the Badruddin Ajmal-led A... \| Read..

Orissa	More..
Parched city hopes to end dry run
Water woes could well be a thing of the past in the capital if plans of the public health engineeri... \| Read..