Mamata silent as gruesome Barasat rape stirs Bengal
Tamal Saha & Sourav Sanyal | KOLKATATwenty kilometres from Kolkata, outside the city's eastern fringes, is located the booming town of Barasat. With an exponential growth in real and retail industry, this township many thought would be ... 
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Nicholas Wapshott/ Reuters | 15th JunWhatever high crimes and misdemeanours the National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden may or may not have perpetrated, he has at least in one rega...
US Congress report recognises LeT as a proxy of Pak ISI
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Daughter provoked Advani’s resignation
It was daughter Pratibha who insisted that BJP patriarch L.K. Advani should resign from the top organisations of the party. Advani himself was in two minds, but Pratibha's determination carried the day; she drafted the resignation letter. Advani's long time associate Deepak Chopra carried the letter to Rajnath Singh. The BJP leadership's first reaction was stunned silence; only Arun Jaitley was of the view that the resignation should be accepted. But those in favour of mollifying Advani vastly outnumbered the hardliners.... LAKSHMAN MENON | 15th JunThe Indian born sculptor, Anish Kapoor, whose art has been described as "monstrous", has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. He joins ... LAKSHMAN MENON | 15th JunAt the stroke of the midnight hour, as millions of Greeks watched in confusion, their television screens suddenly went blank. A moment comes which com... SIRAJ WAHAB | 15th JunSaudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud cut short his holiday in Morocco and returned to Jeddah on Friday due to the fast-changing develop... SIRAJ WAHAB | 15th JunThe first phase of the expansion of the mataf (the open area surrounding the Holy Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque) would be completed in 10 days. It is ... |
