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SP ensures bandh success in UP

Samajwadi Party workers, on Thursday, went all out to ensure the success of the nationwide protest against FDI in retail and hike in diesel price by holding demonstrations and stopping trains in vario

Normal life stands still in Bengal

Despite West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s claim, to the contrary, the bandh on Thursday brought normal life to a virtual standstill in Kolkata and other parts of Bengal.

Illegal power consumers to face UP ire

Those who have been using illegal power connections — popularly known as “katia” connection in the local parlance — will now get to see the writing on the wall. Almost, literally.

Azam’s varsity dream finally comes true

Senior Samajwadi minister Azam Khan’s eight-year-old dream will finally come true on Tuesday when Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav inaugurate the Maul

Ministry ad fuels Didi-Centre strife

An advertisement issued by the ministry of petroleum and natural gas (P&NG) in leading local dailies has further fuelled the Mamata Banerjee-Centre strife.

Abducted Bengal businessmen rescued by cops

A young businessman who was allegedly kidnapped from Park Street on Saturday afternoon was rescued by the police within 12 hours from Shibpur in Howrah.

In Bihar, it’s Nitish bicycles vs Lalu’s buses

The wheels of politics remain well oiled in Bihar.

Left calls 12-hour strike on Sept. 20

CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat (left) and Left Front chairman Biman Bose during a press conference in Kolkata on Sunday.

Protesting against the UPA-II government’s decision to hike diesel price, allow FDI in retail and put a restriction on subsidised LPG cylinders, the Left Front has called a 12-hour general strike acro

Flesh trade run by cops in Bihar?

Just days after a Bihar policeman’s barbaric conduct with an arrested man shocked the nation, fresh revelations have pointed at the rot in the state police force and renewed calls for stringent action

Pranab pride of bengal, says mamata

Showering lavish praises on President Pranab Mukherjee, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that he was the pride of Bengal. An elated Ms Banerjee was bewildered as to how to address him.

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