Updated: 19 December 2012, Wednesday;15:10 hrs (IST)
The Delhi High Court, taking suo motu cognisance of the gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus here, on Wednesday pulled up the city police and asked it for a status report.... | Read..
Updated: 19 December 2012, Wednesday;17:30 hrs (IST)
The World Bank’s Chief Economist, Prof Kaushik Basu, is of the view that inflation of 5-6 per cent for India is “not too high” during a high-growth traj... | Read..
Four school campuses in and around Calcutta erupted when teenaged students held teachers hostage — through the night in one instance — demanding that they be declared passed in the selection tests.... | Read..
Jaya Bachchan was on her feet for 158 minutes or 2 hours and 38 minutes — give or take a few ticks of the clock — in the Rajya Sabha today to draw attention to wo... | Read..
The Centre today got the banking bill passed in the Lok Sabha with the help of the BJP, breaking a Bengal bond that dissipated when Trinamul Congress members disappeared ... | Read..
Expressing concern over the rise in crimes against women, a trial court in Guwahati sentenced a man to rigorous imprisonment for five years for kidnapping a 17-year-old girl.... | Read..
Mrinal Kr Sharma, an official of Numaligarh Refinery Limited, was arrested today on charges of raping a woman at Rajabari Letekujan area last night. Sharma, who lives on ... | Read..
Middle class farmer Baijnath Mahto of Silodar village, Chordaha panchayat, is an MNC television set maker’s dream customer in a saturated urban market. ... | Read..
The power sector in the state received a shot in the arm today, with a high-level committee headed by the chief secretary giving its nod to two private firms to set up gr... | Read..
The fox in the fable said “grapes are sour” when he didn’t get them, but an agency sacked by the state transport department has gone one step ahead — ... | Read..
A blocked collapsible gate of the Santoshpur school on Tuesday morning. The siege had started at 3.30pm on Monday and continued overnight till 1.30pm on Tuesday. Some students and parents spent the night in the school to prevent the teachers from leaving. It is not clear if anyone from the photographed group was among those who took part in the night protest. Picture by Biswanath Banik What kids are learning from us: You can get away with anything
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»
