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Will kali Smile? I feel sad whenever I think of Bengal. The slugfest between TMC and left reminds me of the fate of grass which gets Trampled whenever elephants fight. The drama of storming writers yesterday on the festival eve reminds me of the...
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African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless...
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IN a move with damaging implications for investment, Zimbabwe plans to grab a 51% stake in foreign-owned firms within 60 days of the gazetting of the Indigenisation and...
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The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.
Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next...
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SOMALI pirates have threatened to kill three crew members taken hostage from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the...
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A RUSSIAN military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia’s Far East region, leaving all eleven crew members missing and presumed dead,...
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The Democratic Republic of Congo army has used vaccination clinics as “bait” to attack civilians, says aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Thousands...
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A SOUTH Korean woman has passed a written exam for a driver’s licence after 950 attempts.
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Kenyans have rarely been disappointed in the ability of their political leaders to be disappointing. So it’s not all that surprising that little has been done for...
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the...
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I vividly recall the car journeys I would take as a teenager from Frankfurt to Berlin. In those days, the trip to the isolated city of West Berlin, which was located in...
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There was apparently not quite as much fun and games being played as expected by organizers at last year’s Beijing Olympics with news breaking that a stash of...
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When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto...
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The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s designation...
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While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen’s central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government’s...
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Thousands had gathered under the shade of the trees by the airstrip in Akobo, waiting for the arrival of a United Nations helicopter packed with food aid.
Bony-armed...
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It is unclear from a story, whether this cabbie was this time a next “Indian student” victim of desperately seeking a place for morning sex-session, but attitude of...
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Sir, I represent the self employed urban middle class from services sector. I Have spent the 50 odd years of my existence in this country. Now when my descent has...
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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The annual pilgrimage to Mecca recently took place. Muslims are required - as part of the Five Pillars - to do the Hajj, as it is known, once in their life if health...
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Targeted killing in Baluchistan continues as a Professor of the University of Balochistan was shot dead outside his residence in Quetta on Thursday, November 05, 2009. ...
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Elections are like asking a lamb to choose between a fox and a wolf. The recent elections in Siliguri in which left has been dethroned by sister/minister Ms Mamta...
made popular Sep 18 2009
Chickens Come Home to Roost! Can we call it poetic justice? Having fought tooth and nail at Singur and having blocked land acquisition bill, now Ms Banerjee has to take...
made popular Aug 17 2009
I have seen in past few days that Mamta Banerjee is proactively advocating Maoist activity. Already Maoist activity has killed several people in West Bengal including...
made popular Aug 13 2009
By Pallab Ghosh
The 15th rail budget brought relief to general passenger with no proposed hike in passenger fares and freight rates. Many new schemes and packages were...
made popular Jul 4 2009
At least in Bengal the ray classic shatranj ke khiladi is being enacted in real life at the cost of public at large. Ms Mamta Banerjee is taking her role as opposition...
made popular Jul 2 2009
Politicians are back to their old game of pointing fingers in Bengal. While central has banned CPI((Maoists )as a terrorist outfit, Bengal is reluctant to do so.
Does...
made popular Jun 23 2009
The English agent wrote in his journal about Rani Lakhshmi Bai of Jhansi that she was the only man amongst rebels. Some thing similar may be said about Ms....
made popular Jun 11 2009
Ever since Ms. Mamta Banerjee became railways minister I am jittery as a passenger for I apprehend that the vast resources of railways will be used not for the benefit...
made popular Jun 8 2009
I am not affiliated to any political party. My only stake in election is my Indian citizenship. As a tax paying citizen I am entitled to good governance but seeing the...
made popular Apr 30 2009
BY Pallab Ghosh
The alliance between Trinamool Congress and Congress may fall flat even before it was formed following a two day ultimatum given by the Trinamool...
made popular Mar 12 2009
By Pallab Ghosh
With the final candidate result announced the long spell over the uncertainty whether Trinamool Congress-Congress will take place or not ends. Banerjee...
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It will be very difficult for MR. Ratan Tata to forget Ms. Mamta Banerjee the beloved “Ddi” from Bengal. The woes of Tata Motors & also of its associates are...
made popular Feb 5 2009
Yesterday’s violence both at Salboni & Singur marks the beginning of a new round in the slug fest of the strife prone Bengal politics
While the land mine...
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Today when the chief minister of Bengal will lay the foundation stone of Jjindal’s pelletisation plant Ms Mamta Banerjee will relaunch her agitation in Singur.
Of...
made popular Nov 1 2008
Confusion Galore. The expression ‘headless chickens’ used by our US ambassador Shri Ronen Sen seems to be most apt for the situation prevailing in Singur where...
made popular Oct 31 2008
Mamata Banerjee is so unpredictable while till now she was steadfast ON return of the same land, come what may, now she wants jobs for farmers displaced & better...
made popular Oct 24 2008
Who will save the police. There is a famous saying, no one can save the boat which the boatman wants to sink.
This is what is happening in Bengal where Ms Mamta...
made popular Oct 20 2008
If you want to kill the proverbial golden goose, and if you want to do it well, then you can take special lessons from Ms. Mamta Banerjee. You think I am being too...
made popular Sep 24 2008
I must confess at the outset that despite having been born & lived in a left strong hold all my life I have no idea at all about Marx& leftist ideology but I...
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