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Hear Them Skeletons In The Bureau? ishrat jahan: cbi vs IB
Was it just in the line of duty or did the IB in Gujarat overreach its mandated brief? Uttam Sengupta, R.K. Misra ishrat jahan: cbi vs IB As much as Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and his...
View ArticleAnanda Vikatan's Asokan to head The Hindu's Tamil paper T E Narasimhan &...
Kasturi & Sons Ltd (KSL), publisher of The Hindu newspaper, has roped in industry veteran K Asokan as the editor of its yet-to-be-named Tamil daily, which is expected to be launched before or...
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Chit fund-hit Tollywood gets corporate balm from Reliance, Viacom18 Digbijay...
Major production houses like Reliance Entertainment and Viacom 18 seem to have come to the rescue of West Bengal’s film industry, Tollywood, which had been feeling the heat as some chit-fund companies...
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Bajaj's labour union refuses to back off, stir continues Swaraj Baggonkar &...
The ongoing strike at Bajaj Auto Ltd’s Chakan plant near Pune entered the 12th day on Saturday, with the agitating employees seeking support from other unions in the neighbourhood and threatening to...
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The Mehta who surprised Mallya Dev Chatterjee | Mumbai BS
Untill early this week, not many outside the Indian fertiliser sector had heard of Sailesh C Mehta, 52, chairman and managing director of Pune-based Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals. Like the...
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Telcos sit on Rs 38k-cr liability bomb Sounak Mitra | New Delhi BS
To clear the penalties, as well as charges demanded on various accounts by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), telecom companies may have to shell out a staggering Rs 38,500 crore. Besides...
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Birth pangs in the land of dead N Sundaresha Subramanian | Guptkashi BS
Parul Nautilya with her relativesEven as the Kedar valley was witnessing the dance of death and destruction, a new life was struggling to enter this world. Parul Nautiyal was expecting her child...
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Political Islam fails Egypt's test Roger Cohen BS
Heba Morayef voted for Mohamed Morsi last year. The Muslim Brotherhood candidate was an unlikely choice for a liberal Egyptian woman, the director of the Human Rights Watch office in Cairo, but she...
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At Narmada's mercy Sreelatha Menon | New Delhi BS
What is it like to live on a land which can get submerged anyday? Anjan Bada or "unknown land" in Alirajpur, in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh is virtually that today. This village on the banks of...
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USA, India, UNHRC answerable to provincial meddling in Sri Lanka
[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 July 2013, 23:56 GMT]However condemned by Eezham Tamils, the USA and India have committed on several occasions to ‘provincial’ solutions to the national crisis of Eezham...
View ArticleSinhalicisation, demographic wedging accelerated in Mullaiththeevu
[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 July 2013, 17:11 GMT]Sinhalicisation of the Mullaith-theevu district of the Northern Province and demographically wedging it from the adjacent Trincomalee district of the...
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Move to repeal 13th Amendment would decide the government's fate - Sri Lankan...
Sat, Jul 6, 2013, 09:01 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. July 06, Colombo: A Sri Lankan government minister says that any move to repeal the 13th Amendment to the Constitution would be a...
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India tells SL to go beyond 13-A
July 5, 2013, 9:32 pmMinister Rajapaksa with Indian External Affairs Minister KhurshidBY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special CorrespondentNEW DELHI, July 5: India today welcomed Sri Lanka’s announcement...
View ArticleTrains to Jaffna back on track before year end
July 5, 2013, 9:39 pmBy Don Asoka WijewardenaTrain services to Jaffna would be restored before the end of this year, Transport Minister Kumara Welgama said yesterday, adding that the primary stage of...
View ArticleSome Doubts on Devolution
July 5, 2013, 8:56 pmA reader has sent us this article which was published in The Island of 19.01.2009, because the issues on devolution today are very similar to what was relevant at the time the...
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‘Fathers, sons and doors’ – a rejoinder
July 5, 2013, 8:57 pmYour editorial in Thursday’s "The Island" made me wonder whether you too have joined the brigade of Sri Lankan journalists who like a pack of deadly Amazon piranhas devour with...
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Back to Tahrir SquareJuly 5, 2013, 8:51 pmEgypt, which prided itself on a successful Arab Spring revolt that ousted a longstanding dictator, is now in for a winter of despair. The military has...
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Lac-Megantic train blast: PM Harper visits 'war zone' - bbc.com
Prime Minister Stephen Harper: ''It looks like a warzone here''Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the part of Lac-Megantic impacted by Saturday's crude oil explosion looks like a "war...
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San Francisco crash Boeing 'tried to abort landing'
Passenger Ben Levy: "It happened in a flash, nobody was worried about anything"The Boeing 777 that crash-landed at San Francisco airport was "significantly below" its target speed near the runway and...
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Egypt's pro- and anti-Morsi protesters take to streets - bbc.com
Ahmed Maher reports from a pro-Morsi women's march in Cairo: ''Emotions are very high here''Tens of thousands of demonstrators are on the streets of Egyptian cities in rival shows of force by...
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