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Sweet end to sugar trouble
The Manmohan Singh government scored the first rollback of its second avatar today by squelching an order on sugarcane price that had brought thousands of angry farmers to Delhi and united Opposition parties. ...  | Read.. 
 
Buzz of pact on Nayachar
Indonesian Salim Group associate Prasoon Mukherjee today met a senior government official, triggering speculation about progress on the proposed Nayachar chemical hub. ...  | Read.. 
 
Jairam books filth Nobel
India’s cities are the dirtiest in the world and would qualify for a Nobel Prize in filth if such an award existed, Jairam Ramesh, environment and forests minister, ...  | Read.. 
 
Culture shock for Mamata
Mamata Banerjee’s plan of beating Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at his own game by surrounding herself with artists and writers has been jolted by a sharp division in the cult ...  | Read.. 
 
Bravery at bullet’s end
Shot three times and bleeding profusely, 50-year-old Som Bahadur Chettry’s last act was what he had taught his students all throughout his career as a teacher — to stand ...  | Read.. 
 
PC raps Ibobi on schools
It took three months of closed schools and sustained agitation for the Centre to crack the whip for Manipur but little seems to have affected Okram Ibobi Singh, serving a sec ...  | Read.. 
 
Stability card in tribal heartland
Sonia Gandhi today gave the Congress’s campaign in Jharkhand a riveting start by addressing two huge rallies where she appealed to tribal sentiments by promising the par ...  | Read.. 
 
NGOs told to tame rebels
The Union home ministry has appealed to civil society organisations, who security experts advise are a major party to be “won over” in the battle against Maoist ...  | Read.. 
 
A Palestinian child with her face painted at a Unicef event organised to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child ...  | Read
 
 
If there was a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India would get it
Jairam Ramesh
Read storybooks & get more marks, suggests CBSE
Reading storybooks by the likes of Enid Blyton or Agatha Christie may now earn children marks a ...  | Read..
Oprah decides to stop talking
Oprah Winfrey is giving network television one of her trademark aha moments. ...  | Read..
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Strike off, but relief 'temporary'
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