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Exports shrink 5.45% in June to $25bn

Updated: Friday, 14:35hrs(IST)
India's exports contracted by 5.45 per cent, year-on-year basis, to US$25.07 billion in June due to the persisting global economic slowdown....   | Read..
 

PM to take steps on inflation, growth: Chidambaram

Updated: Friday, 18:22hrs(IST)
The government will address issues affecting the economy in the days to come and the country will get back to a high-growth path, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Frid...   | Read..
 

90 trains delayed or diverted after coal wagons derail in Bihar

Updated: Friday, 14:35hrs(IST)
Twenty-six coal-laden wagons of a goods train derailed near Bhabua Railway Station in Bihar's Kaimur district apparently because of a technical fault in the tracks, disr...   | Read..
 

PM sets up committee to frame GAAR guidelines by Sept 30

Updated: Friday, 17:20hrs(IST)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday set up a committee to prepare fresh norms on the General Anti-Avoidance Rules or GAAR to bring “greater clarity” and ...   | Read..
 

Mamata gets her way twice over

The cabinet today deferred a move to introduce options trading in commodities after the Trinamul Congress leadership wrote to the Prime Minister’s Office seeking more c...   | Read..
 

Suite ready for CM, suitability doubtful

The Bengal government has built a new suite for the chief minister at its VVIP guesthouse in the heart of Lutyens Delhi, but officials are unsure whether Mamata Banerjee wou...   | Read..
 

Regret five days after trauma

Visva-Bharati today expressed regret over a hostel warden forcing a Patha Bhavan student to lick her own urine, the first such gesture by the varsity in the five days sin...   | Read..
 

India visa message to Nordic 3

New Delhi has clamped visa curbs on visitors from Denmark, Sweden and Norway in a message to all European Union member states not to treat India “unfairly”, h...   | Read..
 

Terror centre out of IB

Union home minister P. Chidambaram has agreed to take the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre out of the Intelligence Bureau, bowing to pressure from Mamata Banerj...   | Read..
 

Rescue efforts on in Meghalaya

The fate of the 15 labourers trapped inside a coal mine in Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills district since last week remained unknown till tonight though personnel of the N...   | Read..
 

Worker dies in camp blast

A crude bomb exploded inside a makeshift camp of coal miners in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills district today, killing a migrant labourer from Assam and injuring nine mi...   | Read..
 

Brace for a brolly good show

The rainmaker has, finally, decided to reverse discrimination and reward the whole of Jharkhand with his signature cascade by next week....   | Read..
 

Pranab steals capital show

Pranab Mukherjee, almost certain to become the 13th President of India in the July 19 elections, today charmed MPs and MLAs of Jharkhand and Bihar, even sounding confiden...   | Read..
 

HC glare on lazy babus

Jharkhand High Court has torn into “lethargic” bureaucrats of the state for not paying heed to judicial notices, thereby contributing to the rising number of pend...   | Read..
 
Mamata Banerjee names a baby elephant at the Gorumara National Park in Jalpaiguri on Thursday. She named the two-year-old calf, wedged between two adults in the picture, Barshan, meaning a “shower of rain”. Picture by Sanat Kumar Sinha
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Hamlet and other reasons milk is good
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Month's break for maidan
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Morcha gets 28, Gurung thanks CPM
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Tiny collateral damage
The early 20th-century American economist, Frank Knight, had a neat little theory on the role expect...   | Read.. 
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Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand is turning out to be quite a ladies' man!   | Read.. 
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