Top Stories

Farm paradox: Credit doubles but number of farmer loans dips
Within a month of the UPA government coming to power in May 2004, it set itself the target of doubling credit flow to the country’s ailing farm sector in three years.

Talking Sport
Anil 600 Kumble: a quiet titan basks in the splendid, long evening of his career
Many years ago, when the nineties had just come upon us, a young man with an unusual bowling action but no passport was picked for India.

Secrets Act to be made a little less secretive
An inter-ministerial group has proposed that the 1923 Official Secrets Act be amended to not only bring it in conformity...

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National Network

Basu, Surjeet to skip CPM Congress in Coimbatore
For the first time in 44 years, CPI-M veterans Jyoti Basu and Harkishan Singh...

House prorogued, BJP wants Kamat, Jamir out
Goa Governor S C Jamir prorogued the Assembly on Thursday leading to demands from the opposition BJP that he be recalled.

PM to highlight minority welfare schemes in Parliament
The UPA Government plans to highlight its achievements in specific schemes...

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Business

PM panel cautious of global slump, expects 8.5% growth
Despite revising upwards its growth expectations from the agriculture and services sector...

Reliance profit rises 26%; share falls 3%
Boosted by higher refining margins, Reliance Industries, India’s largest company...

DoT mulls over S-Tel’s offer of Rs 13,752 cr
The Department of Telecommunications on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court...

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International

Campaign mud got here before Santa
On the bloody political battlefields of South Carolina, where memories of the brutal attacks on John McCain in 2000 are still fresh...

Focus on economy as Brown begins India, China trip
Prime Minister Gordon Brown departs Thursday for a trip to China and India, his first to the Asian economic powerhouses since taking over as British prime minister.

US company claims it cloned humans to make stem cells
A California company said on Thursday it used cloning technology to make five human embryos, with the eventual hope of making matched stem cells...

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Sports

India in Australia
Team India snatch initiative back
It wasn’t about the pace — it was about the swing. It wasn’t about the carry off the wicket...

Sania sets up date with Venus
Sania Mirza survived a scare to beat Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland and advance...

Kumble, and the art of leg-spin
A man shrieked in excitement and looked back at the umpire who slowly started raising his finger.

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