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Ranchi: Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand have so many similarities - both were created almost at the same time, some 18 years back, both have a large number of tribal voters, and naxalism has been an issue for both of them.
But very few would be aware of the fact that the present Chief Minister of…
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Didi, is a biography and not hagiography, it has several untold stories of Mamata…
Kolkata/Delhi: Journalist-turned-author Shutapa Paul in her debut book, Didi, The Untold Mamata Banerjee chooses…
Kolkata Witnesses Largest Rally In Recent Times Called By United Left To Save…
Kolkata: Never-ending serpentine-like lines comprising the sea of humans comprising the common man, who came from…
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Jaipur: Zahida Khan, a Meo-Muslim looks all set to create a record, if she manages to bag a ministerial post in the Ashok Gehlot led Congress government of Rajasthan. The lady in question has the reputation of breaking all norms and creating records Rajasthan.
In 2008 when she contested first…
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From daughters and daughters-in-law to becoming Movers and Shakers of Business…
Kolkata: The invitation looked promising and on the D-day the leadership session on ‘Women in Family Businesses’…
Know all about MD Irshad and Rajiya Bano who are supporting Mandsaur Rapist
Kolkata: People forwarding, sharing and abusing each other for two posts shared by alleged Pakistani nationals – MD…
Let There Be Light
Kolkata: The readers of Kolkata can boast of a new edition to their ever-increasing list of libraries in the city. But the book that the readers might get to read may take many by surprise.
For this library offers no ordinary books but ‘human books’ to answer the reader’s queries. Called, a Human…
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Doesn’t Maa Durga bleed? Asks Bengal-origin artist, faces FIR, threats and gets…
Kolkata: Visual artist Aniket Mitra, who happens to be a gold medallist from Kolkata’s prestigious Art College, was…
Many underprivileged girls like Swapna Barman striving to shine on international…
Kolkata: Around the time when Swapna Barman, a girl from Jalpaiguri made India proud by winning Gold in Heptathlon…
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Has Mahendra Singh Dhoni become selectors’ nightmare?
In the recently concluded Asia Cup, Mahendra Singh Dhoni looked a pale shadow of his former self. His diehard fans somehow found him out of his depth. He was finding it difficult to play his natural shots against the likes of Afghanistan…
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All is not lost: Team India can still make a comeback in the remaining tests
Delhi: On Monday, a daily from Mumbai carried an interesting picture on its front page. It captured the pensive and dour faces of Sanjay Bangar, Ravi Shastri and skipper Virat Kohli standing on the Lord's balcony watching the pathetic…
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The ‘endangered’ cricket ball
Kolkata: Do you know that the cherry coloured ball, which Bhuvneshwar Kumar will gently rub on his pants before running a couple of steps and hurling it towards Pakistani opener Ahmed Shehzad at Birmingham, is an endangered artifact?…
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CinemaScope
Fifteen awards and counting, meet one of India’s youngest short filmmaker
Kolkata: He wasn’t much into thrillers or crime fiction or the horror genre. But when this young boy packed his bags and shifted base from Pink City of India, Jaipur to the Maximum City, Mumbai. With dreams in his eyes to make a mark in the…
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Flawed education system, the cause of hatred in India, says Bollywood actor Adil Hussain
Kolkata: Meeting someone as sensitive and versatile as Adil Hussain, who wears his heart on his sleeves is a different experience altogether. With no pomp, no air about himself, the actor settles down for a tete-a-tete on a hot humid day at…
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Jharkhand boy’s fascinating Bollywood journey
Ranchi/Mumbai: He was a teen when he acted in Ayan Banerjee’s award winning short film, Reflected Dreams. And now that he has turned 22, he got to work in a film that will be first screen at major film festivals. Between the two films, he…
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