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Ouch! The perils of people’s power

Police at wits’ end over CM worship

If Sarojini Naidu joked that a fortune was required to keep Mahatma Gandhi in poverty, Calcutta police are realising that they need to chain themselves to ensure Mamata Banerjee remains a “people’s chief minister”. ... | Read..

CM's surprise visit to reserve police force complex

Updated 16:00hrs (IST)

After her surprise visit to the SSKM Hospital and a brief walk to Writers' Buildings, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee... | Read..

Low-intensity explosion outside Delhi High Court

Updated 15:00hrs (IST)

A low-intensity bomb exploded today outside the busy Delhi High Court triggering panic but no ... | Read..

Rains disrupt power for 3 days in Mizoram

Updated 14:40hrs (IST)

Vast parts of Mizoram remained in the dark for the past three days as the 132 KV power transmission line got snapped due ... | Read..

Stalin elected DMK floor leader in TN assembly

Updated 14:40hrs (IST)

DMK Treasurer and party's legislator from Kolathur constituency in Chennai, M K Stalin, son ... | Read..

Singur payoff one option

The options before the Mamata Banerjee government to free Singur land from the lease include paying the Tatas and the vendors, officials told The Telegraph, cautio ... | Read..

Malayali loss not Bengali gain

This month, Bengalis comprehensively ended the stranglehold of the Marxists on Writers’ Buildings. They also came tantalisingly close to loosening the grip of another ... | Read..

Ranchi teens dead on Mumbai tracks

The bodies of two final-year commerce students of Gurunanak Senior Secondary School, who had been missing since May 14, were recovered from railway tracks near Panvel on ... | Read..

PSUs mulling eviction relief

Cornered by widespread protests against its eviction drive, managements of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) and Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) are considering an option to ... | Read..

Rebel threat shuts OPD

A militant threat forced the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) to shut down its outpatient department (OPD) indefinitely after working hours today and sparked ter ... | Read..

Suspense over Gogoi cabinet

The delay in announcing the new cabinet has added to the suspense surrounding it, more so after chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s back-to-back interaction with AICC presi ... | Read..

11.47am: A crowd gathers after seeing Mamata’s black Santro. Mamata stops at the NS Road-BBD Bag North intersection and a supporter reaches out. Mamat ... | Read

Who wants to take me on?
Barack Obama
at the Globe Academy in London before a game of ping pong with students

‘Communal’ net widens
A proposed law to curb communal violence has widened the scope of the word communal. ... | Read..

Law and order but not with bullet
Mamata Banerjee today told district police chiefs to continue the crackdown on illegal stockpil ... | Read..

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Nation	More..
Congress keeps door open for Karuna
The Congress leadership has taken care not to create the impression that DMK chief M. Karunanidhi h... \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Surprise and shock at SSKM
Mamata Banerjee helped an accident victim named Buddhadeb get admission to SSKM during a surprise vi... \| Read..

Bengal	More..
Father and son killed, youth's palm chopped
A CPM worker and his teenage son were burnt alive in a Murshidabad village while a Trinamul Congres... \| Read..

Bihar	More..
Deadly holes wide open
Loss of life hardly matters to Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) authorities. The officers and the ... \| Read..

North Bengal	More..
Trinamul worker loses palm in night assault
A Trinamul Congress worker had his left palm chopped off last night on a deserted Manikchak road by... \| Read..

Opinion	More..
Danger signals
The daring attack on Karachi's Mehran naval air base has suddenly revived interest in a forgotten cl... \| Read..

Sports	More..
CSK make the final in style
After Sunday's nail-biting finish at Eden Gardens, it was the Wankhede's turn to witness how fortun... \| Read..

International	More..
Ash forces Europe flight cancellations
Airlines today cancelled hundreds of European flights, as the ash cloud from the Grimsvotn volcano ... \| Read..

Business	More..
IMF job triggers lobbying war
India is trying to get the Brics grouping and developing nations to put up a single candidate for t... \| Read..

Entertainment	More..
FREEDOM RIDE
her cherished relationship with a mass audience ' fans who call themselves Little Monsters and dres... \| Read..

Jharkhand	More..
MLA gives up after 20 days
Congress MLA Sawna Lakra, alleged to have murdered a youth having an affair with his granddaughter ... \| Read..

Northeast	More..
The Class of 2011
Class XII done'and how! Their backpacks full of dreams and precious pictures of home and the hills, ... \| Read..

Orissa	More..
Trees to halt mercury march
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to take up plantation of 25,000 saplings this year i... \| Read..