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Two more AMRI directors get bail

Directors of AMRI Hospital Manish Goenka and Ravi Todi were on Monday granted bail by the Calcutta high court in connection with the December 9 hospital fire that killed 90 people, mostly patients.......

Left faces rout, history is being made in Bengal

Early trends from West Bengal's assembly elections indicate that the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance will form the next government. And Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is likely to......

Will he be the change West Bengal seeks?

Trinamool Congress candidate and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry secretary general Amit Mitra, who is pitted against Communist Party of India-Marxist candidate and West......

CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu's condition deteriorates

The condition of 95-year-old ailing Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu deteriorated on Saturday, doctors attending on him said. "There has been deterioration in his general......

Bengal seeks 15 K cr for cyclone protection

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will seek Rs 15,000 crore from the Centre for building a "mini Chinese Wall" along the coastal area of the Sundarbans to protect the area's 4.1......

GST: Constitutional amendment bill likely soon

During the ensuing Monsoon session of Parliament, the central government is likely to move a Constitutional amendment bill pertaining to the introduction of Goods and Services Tax. Unless ratified......

Bengal govt puts SEZs on hold

West Bengal government puts on hold all special economic zones in the state until a 'socially balanced' decision is taken in this regard.Presenting the state budget for 2007-08 in the assembly,......

The reformers' dilemma

The calling off of the privatisation of 13 profit-making public enterprises through strategic sale of equity, and the UPA's decision to halt even the 10 per cent divestment in BHEL, together with......

VAT empowered committee to meet on Tue

A crucial meeting of the empowered committee on state-level value added tax will be held in New Delhi on Tuesday to thrash out the problems that have stalled the implementation of the system from......

The BEST 200 Indian Films of the Decade

Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade. IMAGE: A scene from Bulbul Can Sing. As the second decade of the young century comes to an end, it is time to look at how......

Who will go to the Toronto Film Festival?

Cameron Bailey, Film Programmer of the Toronto Film Festival for South Asia and Africa, was recently in Chennai to select films for one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. He is......

Amu rocks Toronto, Ash doesn't

When Shonali Bose set out to make a film with the backdrop of the massacreof Sikhs following then prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984, there was no shortage of peopleasking her to......

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