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Burning rage and disbelief
Subhashish Chakraborty, 42, can still hear wife Munmun’s voice over the phone — 4.21am it was, he remembers precisely to a second. ...  | Read.. 
 
Didn’t realise then but was jolted today
Chaitanya Singh Mehta’s daughter-in- law Smita was among the first few relatives to reach AMRI Hospitals in Dhakuria on the morning of December 9. ...  | Read.. 
 
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's mother dead
Updated: 15: 00 hrs (IST)
Gayatri Devi, mother of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, died at a state-run hospital here today ...  | Read.. 
 
Minority pockets tilt to Cong
Large sections of Muslim voters, who can swing the results in about 130 of the 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, seem inclined towards the Congress in a trend that should worry ...  | Read.. 
 
Can’t be a matter for street justice
The following is a letter Nobel laureate Amartya Sen sent to the editor of The Telegraph on Friday ...  | Read.. 
 
Take a chill pill, say north-westerly winds
No, Jharkhand won’t exactly have a white Christmas, but temperatures across the state have tumbled below the normal average in the past 24 years, thanks to the billowing ...  | Read.. 
 
Assam’s very own Citizen’s Charter
The Kamrup deputy commissioner’s office is quietly putting together a New Year’s gift for the ordinary citizen — transparent and timely issuance of crucial certific ...  | Read.. 
 
Mokokchung offers security succour to Assam
Border bonhomie today yielded a security benefit for Assam, with Mokokchung deciding to keep a strict vigil on Assam-based militants who use the district as a corridor to Mya ...  | Read.. 
 
Coach in cash row keeps job
A weightlifting coach, in the eye of a storm for apparently being favoured over others to receive a Rs 14-lakh cash bounty from the state government, will keep her positi ...  | Read.. 
 
Nod to 200 fire posts
Singed by criticism over its below-average blaze battling capability, Jharkhand has decided to augment the current strength of its fire department by creating new posts a ...  | Read.. 
 
Laws to rein in urban chaos
The state cabinet today cleared three laws, including one that makes registration of flats mandatory and another that makes life difficult for overstaying tenants, paving the ...  | Read.. 
 
Subhashish Chakraborty, whose wife Munmun died in the fire, outside AMRI Hospitals, Dhakuria, on Friday morning. Picture by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya
Burning rage and disbelief
 
 
There is a feeling that I should be CM again
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At two feet tall, Indian girl is top of the world
At first glance, she looks like a month-old baby in her mother’s lap. ...  | Read..
KMSS blocks path, govt keen on talks
Anti-dam activists today blocked all supplies to the Lower Subansiri project site in Dhemaji de ...  | Read..
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