The Centre has extended till next March a little-known moratorium on setting up “potentially polluting” units in Haldia and Asansol, making it all the more difficult to attract investments in sectors closely identified with the two industrial towns.
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Joint security forces are maintaining round-the-clock patrols in four police station areas around Ayodhya hills in Purulia district as part of stepped up ... |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao met today and agreed on the need for working together as there was “enough space” and areas for them to work together ... |
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The West Indies failed to bowl out Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman at the Eden, but the Man of the Match (MoM) got bowled over by the state’s Woman of the Year and chief ... |
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The Bengal government today pulled out of its hat Jagori Baskey, once a feared member of the Maoist action squad and a purported ace shot, saying that the woman and her h ... |
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Even by the standards of novel and colourful demonstrations that are spreading across America in the aftermath of its financial meltdown in 2008, yesterday’s protest ... |
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Breaking a lull, three cadres of the anti-talks faction of Ulfa were killed in an encounter with the army at Namsai in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh bordering Tinsu ... |
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Sister Valsa John may have incurred the wrath of a group of local criminals for seeking justice for a raped tribal girl and that may have been the immediate provocation for h ... |
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Admirers, colleagues and villagers in hundreds congregated to bid Sister Valsa a final farewell this morning at a Dudhani church here, less than two days after the portly ... |
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Mamata Banerjee speaks to Sachin Tendulkar as Mahendra Singh Dhoni and VVS Laxman look on after India’s series-clinching win in the second Test agains ... |
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I’m sure you’ll get the 100th hundred at the earliest Mamata Banerjee to Sachin Tendulkar, according to VVS Laxman
Jaya does what Mamata won’t
If Mamata Banerjee is looking for a formula to make an unavoidable diet less unpalatable, J. Ja
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New Delhi, Dec. 17: A 23-year-old woman was raped and brutalised by a group of men inside a private luxury bus with curtains she had boarded last night in Delhi, and is now on a ventilator with her intestines and uterus ruptured. | Read»
New Delhi, Dec. 31: The protests against the December 16 gang rape appear to have unwittingly led a teenaged Delhi student to commit suicide after being arrested for lewd behaviour with a girl on a bus. | Read»
Patna, Jan. 3: A pregnant lady was found unconscious on rail tracks in Bihar this afternoon, prompting police to investigate accounts that suggested she jumped off a train after a soldier tried to rape her in the toilet of an AC coach. | Read»
Lucknow, Jan. 6: The hand-wringing over masking the identity of the Delhi rape victim turned largely academic today after two British tabloids published her name and her father led his village in demanding disclosure in India. | Read»
India is no longer a land that worships the mind. More than anything else it worships the material. Even our temples have become grounds for quid pro quo where blessing is not what people seek but just riches. We are no longer happy with homes. We want to live in monuments.... | Read»
The past fortnight has been rather unique for a Delhi that often gives the impression of being detached not merely from Bharat but from India as well. For the first time in living memory, the festive season was marked by candlelight marches rather than candlelight dinners.... | Read»
New Delhi, Jan. 1: The six December 16 gang-rape accused would habitually drink through Sundays and take out the chartered school bus at night to pick up sex workers, a senior police officer said. | Read»
Sadly, there is little to look forward to in a city where more things change more they remain the same. Calcuttans this year will continue to go through the motions of filling up shops, restaurants and, yes, hospital beds... | Read»
Calcutta, Jan. 1: Operators camping on Trinamul-associated premises in the heart of Calcutta are openly demanding money in the name of elected representatives to facilitate illegal construction, an undercover investigation by The Telegraph has established. | Read»
The Mamata Banerjee government has thrown the baby out with the bath water, withdrawing from the East-West Metro project on the grounds that it is no longer part of the UPA and therefore not responsible for any hitch. | Read»
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