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Al Qaida confirms but muted

Group vows revenge and focuses on continuity, not veneration

Al Qaida has confirmed Osama bin Laden is dead and vowed more attacks on Americans and their agents in a message that dispels some of the fog around the killing but lacks the vehemence of the group’s usual cries of vengeance. ... | Read..

Left unshaken in red earth, so is poverty

As you turn off the expressway just before Durgapur and then cross the long bridge spanning the Damodar and enter the district of Bankura, the landscape changes completel ... | Read..

Mummy Kani tugs at Victorian hearts

A cry for a “Victorian sense of chivalry” rang out in court today as Kanimozhi, MP and daughter of M. Karunanidhi, tied her bail plea to her gender, motherhood and ... | Read..

Gamlin to go by dam reports

The newly appointed chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Jarbom Gamlin, today said he would go by the report of the study being conducted on the state’s river basins wit ... | Read..

Cops stumble upon Maoist tech leap

Maoists had planted as many as 192 improvised explosive devices and connected detonators with a special wire to facilitate simultaneous explosions with devastating effect in ... | Read..

Graffiti that read “Usama bin toun” (Osama bin Laden town) appeared on a wall near the hideout of Osama in Abbottabad on Friday but it was painted over later. Pakistani officials said the complex might be demolished to prevent it from becoming a shrine. (AFP pictures)
Al Qaida confirms but muted

I always tell producers I will not ride the horse or kiss the heroine
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AI pilots back to work
Air India pilots tonight called off their 10-day strike after the airline agreed to reinstate s ... | Read..

Osama prayer fuels questions
A few hundred people in Srinagar and Calcutta held prayers for Osama bin Laden ... | Read..

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Ramesh lifts dam halt order, rues compromise
Jairam Ramesh today lifted his ministry's stop-work order on a dam over the Narmada on a day he adm... \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Boy's flight of fancy stalled at take-off
Anirban Sannigrahi, the Calcutta youth arrested for forging a pilot's licence after failing to get o... \| Read..

Bengal	More..
Factory factor
If the industry dream is the pivot around which this Bengal election is swinging, nowhere is the se... \| Read..

Bihar	More..
Perks too dear for civic body
More than 3,000 employees of Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) are in for disappointment, as admini... \| Read..

North Bengal	More..
Parishad plans more land raids
The Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad has decided to seize more tribal plots bought "illegally... \| Read..

Opinion	More..
Power women
A remarkable yet perhaps under-appreciated fact about Indian politics today is the influence, at the... \| Read..

Sports	More..
Our team is now
It's been a hectic schedule for us. And on Saturday, we have a crucial game, the last one of a stint... \| Read..

International	More..
Family lived in hideout for 5 years, says wife
One of the three wives living with Osama bin Laden told Pakistani interrogators she had been stayin... \| Read..

Business	More..
Panel priority to price busters
A high-level committee on inflation management today said lower growth was "desirable" in the short... \| Read..

Entertainment	More..
JWALA BREATHES FIRE
You have spoken out openly against the recent rule of skirts on court… \| Read..

Jharkhand	More..
Apathy brakes on emergency wheels
An ambulance without registration, another two reserved for VIPs, a fourth to ferry medicines and a... \| Read..

Northeast	More..
Distance learning way for GU
Gauhati University is going to offer four popular pass course subjects under humanities through dis... \| Read..

Orissa	More..
BMC axe fells highway hoardings
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) today launched a drive to dismantle all illegal hoardin... \| Read..