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How BJP's Chanakya met his waterloo in Bengal

The BJP could win only 16 out of the 57 seats in Bengal where Amit Shah campaigned, reports Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Anilchandra Shah on a roadshow......

6 major Left parties join hands for Bihar polls

The Left parties said they were presenting to people an option, which would truly represent the people's power. Photograph: MI Khan Six major Left parties on Monday joined hands to contest the......

Spare him from the noose: Judges, politicians urge president to pardon Yakub

Politicians, actors and eminent jurists have written a petition to the President to waive off the 1993 Mumbai blasts convict’s execution, saying it ‘would degrade us all’. Leaders......

Bihar Dalits massacre acquittal: 'Who killed my family then?'

Family members of the victims say they have been denied justice even 16 years after the incident in which 58 Dalits were butchered allegedly by upper-caste Ranvir Sena men. M I Khan reports Sixteen......

Rizwanur's mother urges HC to punish cops

Kishwar Jahan, mother of Rizwanur Rahman, on Tuesday prayed in the Calcutta High Court for criminal proceedings against former Kolkata police commissioner Prasun Mukherjee and another senior police......

'Now, I am reduced to nothing'

'I have tutored my family and myself to fight hunger,' the former agent for the Saradha chit fund says, his eyes welling up. 96 of the 107 cases referred to the Serious Fraud Investigation Office......

Inflation, poor monsoon hit consumption in E India

Consumers say they cannot buy branded FMCG items; in mobile phones, customers opt for low-end handsets while retaining brand loyaltyLast year, Ashok Das, a farmer-cum-fisherman from the small......

ABP to buy out STAR from TV news venture

Media giant Ananda Bazaar Patrika is parting ways with the Rupert Murdoch-controlled STAR Group, after months of discontent over editorial and other strategic issues.The two have been operating the......

Cracks in STAR-ABP ties

Besieged media baron Rupert Murdoch may have to face new challenges - not just in the UK but in the key Indian market as well.After eight years of joint operations in news television, the......

Mamata takes Kolkata market by storm

The wind of change promised by Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee seems to have taken the Burabazar market by storm.In the run up to the West Bengal Assembly polls, traders are going gung ho about......

The BEST of my father, Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com brings you a treasure trove of features from our archives. 'I don't need......

Box Office: Poor opening for Laali Ki Shaadi..., Mukti Bhavan

The hits and misses of the week. Moviegoers were treated to two films last week, Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana and Mukti Bhawan. While Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana got......

Box Office: Poor opening for Naam Shabana, Poorna

The hits and misses of the week. Moviegoers were treated to two films last week, Naam Shabana and Poorna. Where Naam Shabana -- a prequel to Akshay Kumar-starrer Baby -- got......

Box Office: Phillauri, Anarkali Of Arrah fare poorly

The hits and misses of the week. Last week's releases Phillauri and Anarkali of Arrah saw strong women-oriented stories at the marquee but failed to draw in collections. Unlike Phillauri, Anarkali......

Mizoram thrash Railways 3-0 to win Santosh Trophy

Mizoram blanked Railways 3-0 in a one-sided final to win the 68th National Football Championship, for the Santosh Trophy, in Siliguri, on Sunday. Zico Zoremsanga scored on either side of half-time......

Santosh Trophy: Railways to meet Mizoram in final

Railways edged Maharashtra 5-3 on penalties to reach the Final of the 68th Santosh Trophy after the match ended 1-1 in regulation time. They will now meet Mizoram in the summit clash at the......

Dempo, East Bengal draw goalless

The much-anticipated encounter between East Bengal and Dempo Sports Club turned out to be a damp squib as the two big names of Indian football played out a drab 0-0 draw, in the Osian's Durand Cup......

East Bengal have injury worries

Thrice champions East Bengal, plagued by injury and the absence of foreigners, take on local challengers Mohammedan Sporting in an ONGC Cup 10th National Football League match in Kolkata on......

East Bengal crush Tollygunge 5-0

Title-holders East Bengal continued their awesome run decimating Tollygunge Agragami 5-0 in a completely one-sided ninth National Football League exchangein Kolkata on Tuesday.Leading 1-0 at the......

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