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Toll climbs to 36 in Kerala boat tragedy, judicial inquiry ordered
Region: IndiaThe tragedy occurred when the state-run double decker boat 'Jalakanyaka' carrying 74 tourists tilted after several tourists moved to one side on sighting elephants in the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary on the banks of the lake... more
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OPPRESSIVE 32 YR. RULE BY COMMUNISTS IN EAST INDIAN STATE OF WEST BENGAL FACIING TROUBLED TIMES.
Region: IndiaRecent parliamentary election defeat came as a rude jerk to the CPM party who are ruling over the state over 32 years. Past elections have been won by brute force terrorising opposition parties. There was widesprea... more
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Left Front Poll Debacle in Bengal: An Objective Analysis
Region: IndiaThis year’s parliamentary election results has been extremely surprising for the Left Front (LF), which has been decimated to 3/7th of their strength of last parliamentary elections in 2004, when the LF won as much a... more
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World's Cheapest Car Nano Rolls in Calcutta on April Fool’s Day
Region: IndiaJust six months after Ratan Tata declared Nano pull out from Singur, three Nanos were roving in Calcutta streets drawing curious onlookers and became the talk of this metro city on the April Fool’s day. Giving a befi... more
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Left Front Kicks off Poll Campaign with a Massive Rally in Calcutta
Region: IndiaThe Left Front kicked of its parliamentary election campaign in West Bengal with a massive rally at the brigade parade ground in the heart of Calcutta on 8th Feb’09. The meeting was well attended by over 12 lakh... more
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Narrow Domestic Walls
Region: IndiaIn the seventies , when Bengal was going through a period of insurgency, - the movement that came to be known as Naxalism, the intellectual fuel for this came from the unemployed students of Bengal’s many universitie... more
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Navratra
Region: India
One more from the land of Festivals. Navratra, A festival completely dedicated to goddess Durga, who has nine avtars. Each of her avtars are given 1 day each out of these 9 days like avtar kali. It is celebrated throughou... more
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Paradise Lost: Bengal Grieves Tata Nano Departure
Region: IndiaMamata Banerjee is the product of post independence era of nuisance politics where capturing power at any cost is the prime motive of most politicians even it means colossal loss to the people and the country. Tata Nano, ... more
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IT Giants on Pull Out Course Saying Singur Changed Everything
Region: IndiaAfter the Fairmont Hotels of Toronto who has pulled out from Calcutta, it is the turn of the native Information Technology giants Infosys and Wipro who appears to be on the pullout contemplation as per the warning fla... more
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Tata Nano Standoff Takes Its First Toll In Bengal’s Investment Climate
Region: IndiaThe Singur standoff over the Tata Nano Plant has its first repercussion on Bengal’s investment climate when a Toronto based hotel group dropped Calcutta from its investment map while scouting for properties in India.... more
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