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The state-owned power distribution company has sought permission from the watchdog to raise tariff, the first such step since the Mamata Banerjee government took over last year.... | Read.. |
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| Arson on second day of bandh, shutdown relaxed for two days |
| Updated: Tuesday at 18:45 hrs (IST) |
| Fresh arson on Tuesday broke out in the Terai and Dooars areas in the plains in Darjeeling... | Read.. |
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| 8 Cong MPs from Telangana region suspended for four days |
| Updated: Tuesday at 16:05 hrs (IST) |
| In an extraordinary step, the Lok Sabha on Tuesday suspended ... | Read.. |
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Two NRI children, who were kept in foster care by authorities in Norway for nearly a year, on Tuesday, arrived here to a warm welcome after a protracted legal battle and ... | Read.. |
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The Chhattisgarh government on Tuesday rushed medicines for abducted Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon hours after the Maoists informed them that he was critically... | Read.. |
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Shops were set on fire, a truck was burnt and a trader and three policemen were injured in the Dooars today as supporters of the indefinite bandh led by the Gorkha Janmukti M... | Read.. |
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The Mamata Banerjee government is facing a sensitive test in the Dooars after a little over a dozen shops and a truck were burnt today to enforce an indefinite bandh.... | Read.. |
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A Bengal plan to replace redhead roads with black-top ones has been shot down by Union minister Jairam Ramesh who cited procedural hurdles.... | Read.. |
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Dispur is determined to launch a “constructive” television channel, stung by the “adverse” coverage of the recent Ulfa bandh during the Prime Minister... | Read.. |
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Unidentified mischief-mongers torched a government vehicle, a truck near an FCI godown and a large haystack in the heart of Shillong, minutes after scores of people emerg... | Read.. |
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Senior Congress leader and Vishrampur MLA Chandra Shekhar alias Dadai Dubey today claimed that the party’s Rajya Sabha member Dheeraj Sahu had given Rs 25 lakh to each ... | Read.. |
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The Chhattisgarh government does not yet know if the recorded message from Maoists on using their hostage Alex Paul Menon, a young bureaucrat, as a bargaining chip to get... | Read.. |
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A gold medal fetches Rs 51,000 in Haryana and Rs 7,000 in Delhi. In Jharkhand and Bihar, it does not even fetch a return train ticket. ... | Read.. |
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A Bollywood actress’s scream raised the first alarm as a band of urban guerrillas sneaked into a VIP complex here and caused a kerfuffle, ripping clothes and invading a... | Read.. |
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| Protesters huddle under a makeshift tent during a dharna against land acquisition in Nagri for IIM and NUSRL
in Ranchi on Monday. Picture by Hardeep Singh |
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The days of oiling lathis have gone by
Nitish Kumar
telling people to educate their children
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