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At wits' end: Both Taslima and Delhi (21 December 02:45) |
| Forget Calcutta, get used to the safe house in Delhi or consider leaving India, Taslima Nasreen has apparently been told by the Centre. |
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Husband in jaws of death (21 December 02:45) |
| Rupa Bezbaruah, the wife of Jayprakash Bezbaruah who was killed by two tigers at the Guwahati zoo on Wednesday, describes her horror. |
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A land scam case (21 December 02:45) |
| The case of the old seamen's church in Hastings has been hanging fire for a long time. One needn't be a conservationist or an admirer of old buildings to take interest in this case, for it i... |
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Jaguar in sight, Tatas growl at snooty hotel (21 December 02:45) |
| The Tatas looked all set on Thursday to acquire luxury car marques Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor Company of the US, but their global ambitions also ignited an uncharacteristic war o... |
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Rebels held in Calcutta (21 December 02:45) |
| Seven Manipuri militants were smoked out of their south Calcutta flat in the early hours today in a joint operation by police and sleuths of military intelligence. |
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'Eroded' Rohmoria erupts (21 December 02:45) |
| Rohmoria's monsoon woes continued to spill onto the streets as police caned and even threw stones to scatter a mob of over a thousand protesters blocking National Highway 37 at Nadwa Siding... |
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Camera-wielding hand inside fence, tigers pounce to kill (20 December 02:23) |
| Jayprakash Bezbaruah, 50, was mauled to death this afternoon by two tigers who also ripped off his left arm as his wife and sons watched in horror. |
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After Shambo, it's Gangotri (20 December 02:23) |
| Is it better to put down a cow that is in less than perfect health or prolong its life by lavishing tender care and love on the animal? |
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Whale ancestor traced in Valley (20 December 02:23) |
| The fossils of a 48-million-year-old mammal found near Kakalot in Jammu and Kashmir represent the missing link between whales and their four-footed ancestors, scientists announced today. |
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Old journals too yellow for Asiatic Society (20 December 02:23) |
| Calcutta's Asiatic Society has been accused of giving away invaluable journals and manuscripts free or at throwaway prices because of lack of space and an aversion to ageing paper. |
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Private retail with riders (20 December 02:23) |
| The Bengal government is not against private investment in retail but will prefer "severe" regulations to protect small stores, the Assembly was told today. |
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CM push for special status (20 December 02:23) |
| Chief minister Naveen Patnaik today called for a national mandate to ensure larger resource flows to the poorer states, like Orissa, besides reiterating the demand for special category sta... |
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Killer Laden on prowl (20 December 02:23) |
| Beware, Laden's waiting to go for the kill. |
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Father of farm holds hope for East (20 December 02:23) |
| The East has the potential and it fulfils all the pre-conditions to be developed for "new green revolution" in future, said father of green revolution M.S. Swaminathan. He anticipates a "ne... |
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Tigers maul visitor in zoo (20 December 02:23) |
| Jayprakash Bezbaruah wanted to get the best possible shot of the magnificent Royal Bengal tiger basking in the mellow afternoon sun inside the Assam State Zoo here. |
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All dressed up for great leap (20 December 02:23) |
| The rustle of crisp new battle fatigues inside the flight numbered IFC 4707 competes with the whine of the Ilyushin's engines. Myanmar's special overflight permission for the Indian milita... |
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Bungle on bill exposes babus (19 December 01:31) |
| The Bengal bureaucracy's inadequacies were on display today when the government was forced to withdraw a bill meant for the welfare of unorganised workers. |
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Husbands murdered for blood money (19 December 01:31) |
| Muheena Begum, a 28-year-old mother of two, is accused of plotting the murder of two husbands within four years and passing off their deaths as militant attacks to claim compensation. |
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Royal mart, fort for sale (19 December 01:31) |
| Royal properties are up for grabs in Madhya Pradesh. |
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Maoists 'liberate' jail for 8 hours (19 December 01:31) |
| Inmates overpower beur guards, behave as they please |
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Ex-rebel spills Dhaka beans (19 December 01:31) |
| The surrendered chairman of a separatist group has revealed that he lived in Dhaka for several years, possibly the first time a militant leader has publicly contested Bangladesh's claim tha... |
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Rebel leader spills Dhaka links (19 December 01:31) |
| The surrendered chairman of the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) has endorsed what the Centre and the state governments have been propagating for so long ' that almost all Nor... |
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Why this man is smiling (19 December 01:31) |
| Yesterday, Praveen Mahajan waved. Today, he could not stop smiling. |
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HC seeks prisoner count (19 December 01:31) |
| Expressing concern at the growing number of undertrials in prisons across the state, Jharkhand High Court has directed all district judges to compile a report detailing the number of prison... |
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Policemen killed in Gorlosa attack (19 December 01:31) |
| Two policemen were killed and five injured when suspected Dimasa militants of the Jewel Gorlosa faction attacked a camp of Assam Police Battalion in North Cachar Hills district this morning... |
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Luxury loo, at Rs 1.8 lakh (18 December 02:55) |
| The BJP's Prime Minister-in-waiting, L.K. Advani, will have to wait till the next elections to see if he can occupy the country's most important seat. Before that, he can try out the most e... |
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Starve but splurge on movies (18 December 02:55) |
| Indians spend Rs 8,000 crore on movie tickets annually, at Rs 80 per member of the population, and the amount is expected to grow by 30 per cent in the next five years. |
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Liberated: train from the meek (18 December 02:55) |
| The Naxalite dream of villages encircling cities came to near-fruition last night when "revolutionaries" overthrew 500 train passengers to ensure that the flag-wavers could rally in Calcutt... |
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Pioneer law to protect doctors (18 December 02:55) |
| Anyone who attacks a doctor, nurse or medical student will now face three years in jail, the Andhra Pradesh government today said promulgating the first such law in a country plagued by hos... |
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Silent Jindal jolts university (18 December 02:55) |
| The bodies of the two Indian students murdered on the Louisiana State University (LSU) campus last week are expected to be repatriated to Hyderabad on Tuesday or Wednesday, notwithstanding... |
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Centre caught in red jail jolt dilemma (18 December 02:55) |
| Housing Naxalites in jails is proving to be a huge headache for the home ministry. |
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PLA admits planting bomb, denies blasting (18 December 02:55) |
| The Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) today owned up to planting the IED that exploded under a passenger bus last night at Pourabai in Imphal East killing seven passengers and wounding mor... |
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Boy stabs girl 9 times in class (18 December 02:55) |
| A Class XI boy stabbed a Class VII girl nine times before gulping down pesticide in a school in Murshidabad apparently because they were too young to marry. |
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Mass jailbreak by Maoists (17 December 01:27) |
| About 100 imprisoned Maoists snatched their guards' guns and broke out of a Chhattisgarh jail this evening in a 15-minute operation timed perfectly between the chaos of dinner and the eveni... |
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A Venus-Mars union that never was (17 December 01:27) |
| The Pakistani-origin heart surgeon widely regarded as Princess Diana's greatest love reluctantly decided not to marry her because their cultural differences would have torn them apart, it... |
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Robotic lander to drill moon surface (17 December 01:27) |
| In four years, India plans to land robotic equipment on the moon that will drill the icy lunar surface and explore it for minerals and fuel sources. |
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Glare on Pak N-arsenal, from Pak (17 December 01:27) |
| Pervez Hoodbhoy, long-time professor of nuclear physics at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, has contradicted national security adviser M.K. Narayanan's view that Pakistan's nuclear wea... |
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Exit polls give Modi edge (17 December 01:27) |
| New Delhi/Ahmedabad, |
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There's a cobra in my pub poison (17 December 01:27) |
| The whisky quenched your thirst but the real kick came from the cobra. |
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US hunt for getaway driver (17 December 01:27) |
| The four-agency task force, together with the FBI, investigating the murder of two Indian students at the Louisiana State University has widened its search for the killers to include a four... |
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Love runs deeper than fear (16 December 01:32) |
| "Kal to hum sab Congress ko vote denge, par sarkar banegi Modi ki hi (Tomorrow we will all vote for the Congress, but Modi will form the next government)," says Abdul Qadir, a cloth merchan... |
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'Curfew' as teacher returns (16 December 01:32) |
| Saurabh Das, a second-year undergraduate at Delhi University, missed his chemistry exam today after he was stopped 20 metres from his college by police sent to ensure the Prime Minister's ... |
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Karat sees no poll scare (16 December 01:32) |
| Prakash Karat today denied reports that he was threatening a mid-term general election on the Indo-US nuclear deal. |
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India saves the day at Bali (16 December 01:32) |
| A forceful intervention by India helped resolve a final-hour deadlock at the Bali climate conference today through a compromise agreement for more national and international action against ... |
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Glare on three men, threat by student (16 December 01:32) |
| Authorities at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where two Indian students were murdered on Thursday night, swiftly moved to set up a "Komma and Allam Support Fund" to assist t... |
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Dispur mulls ban on Adivasi outfit (16 December 01:32) |
| Dispur is considering a ban on the militant Adivasi National Liberation Army (ANLA), which carried out a bomb attack on the Dibrugarh-Delhi Rajdhani Express two days ago. |
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Indian students shot in US (15 December 02:03) |
| Two Indian doctoral students were shot dead at their apartment on a Louisiana campus last night after one of them was trussed up with a computer cable. |
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God and buffaloes, not govt (15 December 02:03) |
| Shaheed Nanak Chand, the black granite nameplate outside the modest house proudly reads. |
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Shooting kid's dad disowns gun (15 December 02:03) |
| Azad Yadav, the father of the boy who shot dead his classmate in a Gurgaon school on Tuesday, told police today the revolver was not his. |
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Durga Sonia versus 'demon' (15 December 02:03) |
| A teenager in Vadodara insisted during a road show that Rahul Gandhi fill up her scrapbook and said she would grow up to become a leader like him. |
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