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Without any women in decision making process, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind talks about “women’s right”
The biggest group of Imams in the country, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH), passed a resolution on the rights of women on the last day of its two-day public convention at Ramlila Maidan here on Satu...
News Analysis: Trappings of power have yet to tame the street-fighter
Dominating public discourse in West Bengal is how far Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who stormed to power a year ago, has been successful in delivering on the high expectations she had raised wit...
Mamata: not returning land to Singur farmers only disappointment
Announces Rs. 1,000 a month to families of unwilling farmers till court settles matter
Women on TV leave filmdom behind, match men in pay
Contrary to the world of films, television is a medium where disparity between men and women does not exist and women are treated on an even keel. An actor like Sakshi Tanwar commands the same remuneration as her counterpart Ram Kapoor in the hugely...
Minister underlines need for maritime security
Minister of State for Defence M.M Pallam Raju on Saturday urged maritime forces not to lower their guard under any circumstance as nations that neglected seas/oceans had come to grief sooner or lat...
‘West Bengal will see, herald development'
Says politics of strikes, protests will not be allowed in State
Don't blame IPL for off-field incidents: Rajeev Shukla
Rajeev Shukla says IPL bashing has become a fashion and the league can't be held responsible for all the untoward incidents off the field.
A Turbulent Marriage
Five years after the merger of Indian Airlines and Air India, the Maharaja is in bad shape.
Official review team praises textbook reforms which generated cartoon row
Inclusion of cartoons in higher classes was one key innovation designed by NCERT
More cases against complainant biker
Police slap Section 333 on him for allegedly causing grievous hurt to public servant
Tribal student makes it to IIT
Jaiprakash Singh from Chhattisgarh has secured the 750th rank in the reserved category
Pune teams defy weather, casualty
Two teams of 20 mountaineers from Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad scaled the 8848-metre Mount Everest and reached its summit early on Saturday morning, becoming the first climbers this season to reach t...
Union Cabinet approves road links to all tribal and border habitations
Rs. 8,500-crore package for connecting 6,000 habitations in 78 Maoist-hit districts
Write all prescriptions in capitals, citizens to doctors
It turns out that all those jokes about doctors’ scrawl are not funny at all. Doctors’ illegible handwriting causes 7,000 deaths in the US every year and another 1.5 million Americans report minor adverse reactions—be it diarrhoea or rashes—or even death.
India-Italy ties turn sour over naval guards case
India and Italy seemed headed for a diplomatic showdown on Saturday with Rome stepping up the pressure to secure the release of two of its naval guards, who were arrested for the killing of two Indian fishermen, while expressing strong "displeasure"...
Sonia’s battle cry: Save Cong in Andhra Pradesh
The Congress president has two prong strategy: a go ahead to the CBI to expedite its investigations in the Jagan assets case without sparing anyone, and to rein in Congressmen who are showing signs of pulling in all directions.
Bihar farmer’s 12-year-old son cracks IIT-JEE
Satyam Kumar of Bhojpur district got all-India rank (AIR) 8,137 in the prestigious competition. He qualified from Mumbai zone, and is still awaiting his plus two results.
Sam Pitroda gets honorary degree from U.S. varsity
Sam Pitroda, advisor to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has been conferred with an honorary degree by New York University's Polytechnic Institute, which is considered among the U.S.' most pr...
Dig this, old vinyl turns to gold
Are you one of those who had a fine collection of old records but one day in a fit of spring cleaning threw them all out? Maybe you thought you would never ever need them again. Big mistake.
Jet's Goyal meets Lufthansa CEO for a German connection
Lufthansa Chief Executive Officer Christoph Franz met Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal and civil aviation ministry officials in New Delhi earlier this month.