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Mamata govt completes 1 year, still to deliver on promises

Inheriting a huge debt and many ailing public service sectors, Mamata Banerjee has done quite a lot in a year in terms of announcing grand new projects. Whether they will take shape in future and add to the revival of Bengal is for time to tell.

Over 29,000 AK-47s procured for India's paramilitary forces

AK-47s continue to be the preferred assault weapon for the country's paramilitary forces deployed to neutralise terrorists and Maoists at the frontiers and in the hinterland.

Sri Lankan president signs order to release former Army chief Fonseka

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has signed the papers for the release of the former Army chief Sarath Fonseka from jail prior to his departure to Qatar, presidential spokesman Bandula Jayasekera told reporters.

Enough proof to nail Luke: Cops

Young India wants a young PM

Pak prez Zardari reaches Chicago for Nato Summit

SC lays guidelines for preventive detention in custody

'Whistle-blower' K'taka officer succumbs to injuries

UN lists Ilyas Kashmiri as 'reported dead'

'Maintenance law being abused by greedy persons'

Strong quake hits N Italy, at least three dead

Nato protesters planned Obama HQ attack

Yeddyurappa to skip BJP national meet

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Once more with feeling

Should the BJP project itself as a Hindutva party or as a modern, inclusive one? This is its dilemma. Chanakya writes.

red herring
All he needs is love

What is it about our home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram that makes so many people choose him as the man in government they love to hate? Indrajit Hazra writes.
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Mark Zuckerberg marries sweetheart

Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, California, home on Saturday, capping a busy week for the couple. Congratulate the couple

Marlon Brando secret phone tapes revealed

A new report suggests that Hollywood legend Marlon Brando dodged California's strict phone laws by recording phone conversations with famous and powerful people.
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Gulp Fiction: When Chetan met Salman

What happens when the 2020 Revolutionist runs into the original Midnight’s Child at an airport one night? Sorabh Pant imagines the war of words.
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Yusuf's show keeps Gauti's faith intact

Kolkata Knight Riders sealed the second place in the points table with a crushing 34-run victory over Pune Warriors in their final group league encounter of the Indian Premier League here today. Amol Karhadkar reports. Scorecard

No let-up in intensity from Delhi

Going into the match, the Delhi Daredevils would have been fretting over Virender Shewag's illness. But David Warner's swashbuckling 79 off 44 balls made sure the league leaders did not miss the explosive India opener. Scorecard
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Air India piles up Rs. 454-cr service tax dues

Five months after its accounts were frozen for non-payment of taxes and duties, crisis-ridden Air India has piled up about Rs. 454 crore of dues but has promised to clear it as soon as it gets capital infusion from the government.

E-commerce sector to see robust hiring this year

The booming e-commerce space in India is likely to be the game changer for job market as online retailers have bullish hiring plans this financial year, say industry players.
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Live longer with a cup of coffee!

Coffee drinkers may live longer as new research has found they are less likely to die than non-coffee drinkers. According to a 14-year study, men who consumed six or more cups daily were 10 percent less likely to die compared with those who did not drink coffee.
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Facebook investors left guessing after Nasdaq glitch

Individual investors were left in the dark for hours on Friday about whether their buy and sell orders for newly issued Facebook shares had actually been executed, in the latest of a series high-profile exchange glitches in recent years.

Worries mount as Nokia burns through cash

Nokia Oyj is tearing through its cash reserves at an unsustainable rate, raising what some analysts say are serious questions about the struggling Finnish phone maker's ability to stabilize its finances in the months ahead.

Get ready for new gaming experiences

Mario dons his tennis shorts, elite soldiers move in for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and mythical medieval adventures beckon in Dragon's Dogma.
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Seer of the present and past

The writer and polemicist Carlos Fuentes, who has died aged 83, published more than 60 works, including novels, short stories, essays and plays, in a career spanning six decades.

Review: Em and the Big Hoom

The easy way to describe Jerry Pinto’s autobiographical novel is to say that it is a son’s account of life with a mentally unstable mother. Imelda Mendes is called ‘Em’ by her two children, the unnamed narrator and his elder sister Susan.

Some CBSE courses have no takers

Even when the board keeps adding new vocational courses every year, not many universities are keen to consider these for admission to colleges, writes Garima Upadhyay Rawat.

Dos and don’ts for CSAT

This year civil services preliminary examination, due on May 20, 2012, will be the second based on the new pattern. Read on for brief and practical checklist of dos and don’ts.
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48 hours in Hatay, Turkey

With thousands of refugees now taking shelter in Hatay after fleeing violence just across the border in their Syrian homeland, Turkey's panhandle province has been in the news over the past year for all the wrong reasons.

Top 10 graduate destinations

Soon it will be time for graduates to celebrate the successful completion of their degrees. In that spirit, online travel adviser Travel Ticker offers its top 10 graduate destinations.

Travel bug? UN predicts a billion international tourists in 2012

More than one billion tourists will take a trip this year crossing an international boundary, a threshold never before reached. International tourism grew by 5.7 per cent in the first two months of 2012.

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Consistency paid well to ICSE and ISC toppers

The girls rule the roost in this year's examination results announced by CISCE on Saturday. Shalaka Kulkarni from Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane and Madhvi Singh from Carmel School, Dhanbad, have been receiving congratulatory messages since Saturday morning...  

NASA trains astronauts to land on asteroid

In a space mission straight from the movie Armageddon, astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid, explore it for minerals and even destroy the object if it threatens the Earth. The training programme will teach them to..
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