Top Stories

Days before her death, Nirmala and Musharraf ‘discussed’ Sarabjit
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today called to condole the death of Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande who died in New Delhi this morning.

THE PULSE PROBLEM
To get pulse yield racing, all eyes on this Kanpur lab which gropes in the dark
There's a 20-hour power-cut in his lab and Subhajit Datta is trying hard to take it in his stride.

IPL windfall? Taxman knocks cricket board’s door for service tax
To examine service-tax liability, the Central Board of Excise and Customs has asked its regional commissioners to examine all contracts the BCCI...

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National Network

Speaker gets tough, refers 32 MPs to privileges panel
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has referred the cases of disorderly conduct of 32 members to the Privileges Committee of the House.

Farmers to foot bill for fortified fertilisers: Cabinet
In view of the rising fertiliser subsidy bill, the Government has decided to put the entire burden of additional secondary and micro-nutrients...

Maya Cabinet gets ‘sarvajan’ look
With Lok Sabha elections on mind, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati reshuffled her Cabinet here on Thursday.

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Business

Home loan rates not to rise in near future, says FM
CRR Hike puts pressure on banks to consider increase in lending rates on certain sectors depending on their risk profile

Sky-high fuel costs spur airlines to hike fares by over 30% in a year
With domestic airline carriers once again deciding to hike ticket prices on the back of rising aviation turbine fuel...

Indigenised equipment companies mandatory: Govt to power promoters
After putting a domestic manufacturing rider in tenders called by central power utilities for supercritical power equipment...

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International

Long-strained, Obama’s bond with Wright snaps
Late on Monday night, in the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC, Barack Obama’s long, slow fuse burned to an end.

US air strike kills top Somalia Al Qaeda boss
Aden Hashi Ayro was the key figure leading an Islamist insurgency against Somali-Ethiopian trooops

China acknowledges Tibetan death in unrest for first time
So far it had claimed that 19 deaths were of Chinese victims of protesters

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Sports

Talking Sport
Disease of arrogance is taking its toll
So the sentencing on Harbhajan is complete, he has retired home to Jalandhar with a fine that is, effectively, more than a hundred times that imposed...

Knights get Royal pasting
Swapnil Asnodkar is accustomed to guest players descending on his Ranji Trophy team - minnows Goa - and turning in star-acts in the second-rung Plate Division.

Mohali win easily as Deccan fail to charge again
Among the many investments that the owners of Deccan Chargers have made in the Indian Premier League...

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