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The night the Knights lost but a city slew a demon

Delhi Daredevils 100 for 2 in less than an hour. Kolkata Knight Riders 97 for 9 in less than an hour. Calcuttans at the Eden 67,000 and staying on for over two hours, unsure if even one ball would ...  | Read.. 
 
Unseasonal snowfall in Darjeeling
Updated: Friday at 16:58 hrs (IST)
Darjeeling experienced unseasonal snowfall and a hailstorm today as heavy rains lashed the metropolis and adjoining districts leaving one person dead and disrupting early mo ...  | Read.. 
 
Somnath slams Mamata for exclusion of Russian revolution from syllabus        
Updated: Friday at 16:30 hrs (IST)
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday slammed the West Bengal government for the reported omission of the Russian revolution, Marx and Engels in the history ...  | Read.. 
 
Jewellers call off 21-day strike
Updated: Friday at 16:45 hrs (IST)
Bullion traders and jewellers today called off their 21-day nationwide strike after meeting UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who assured them that th...  | Read.. 
 
Beware of babus guarding the gates of forests
Primatologist Anindya Sinha, whose studies of wild macaques washing mangoes in a stream and seeking food from tourists had generated hints of social learning and culture in m ...  | Read.. 
 
CPI leader critical after cerebral attack
Former minister and veteran CPI leader Promode Gogoi, who was admitted to GNRC Hospitals here on Monday, has been placed on life support following a cerebral stroke last nigh ...  | Read.. 
 
ATTSA strike affects oil major
An indefinite strike by the Assam Tea Tribes Students’ Association from today hit Oil India Limited activities in Tinsukia district hard and posed a threat to oil a ...  | Read.. 
 
HC backs poll panel diktat
Jharkhand High Court today directed the Election Commission (EC) to hand over the “grave case of involvement of money power, horse-trading and influence” during t ...  | Read.. 
 
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee and KKR owner Shah Rukh Khan set out for a lap around Eden before the rain-curtailed match began on Thursday night. Picture by Pabitra Das
The night the Knights lost but a city slew a demon
 
 
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