Washington, Feb. 5: When Pratibha Patil travelled to Europe last October, she and others in her entourage had a pleasant surprise in the sky. At one point along the air space that the President’s flight was using, half a squadron of Eurofighters appeared on both sides of her... | Read»
New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI): Army Chief General V K Singh seems to have won the first round in the legal battle with the government over his age, with the Supreme Court saying on Friday that the manner in which his statutory complaint was rejected by the Government “appears to be... | Read»
Calcutta, Feb. 19: Proximity to a police officer may have given a “sense of protection” to the three young men arrested for the rape of a 37-year-old lady in Calcutta, though the trio’s names had made it to at least four police stations before the assault. | Read»
Calcutta, Feb. 20: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee did not speak. Two joint commissioners of police did — that too from Writers’ Buildings. | Read»
Mrs Damayanti Sen, thank you very much. You have been a tigress and champ and I will be indebted to you all my life for believing in me, as a woman. | Read»
London/New Delhi, Feb. 1: Rarely before have India’s shopping preferences stirred such hand-wringing in Britain. | Read»
Feb. 20: Italian authorities should be allowed to deal with allegations that its Marines killed two Indian fishermen, the country’s foreign ministry said today, criticising Indian police for arresting the soldiers. | Read»
He is always in the news, sometimes for his books that sell in lakhs even before release, but more often for his views on the Salman Rushdie row, for getting into a public spat with Aamir Khan, for commenting on Infosys and N.R. Narayana Murthy or for being the only author... | Read»
Gosaba, Jan. 31: Mamata Banerjee today lent her voice to a pitch to facilitate land acquisition for a life-saving project — an uncommon plea that betrayed the government’s frustration at the slow pace despite the urgency and the promise of generous compensation. | Read»
Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly,who was part of the two-judge Supreme Court bench that delivered the 2G verdict on Thursday, has written the following article in response to The Telegraph report on Saturday that had quoted former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. The former... | Read»










