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Nobel peace prize winner Mother Teresa. (Photo: PTI)

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Mother Teresa's mission lives on in Kolkata, grows worldwide

The nuns no longer picked up people randomly off the streets and only took in the destitute at the request of police.

2 Sept 2016 6:58 PM IST

A 50-year-old man raped a three-year-old girl at Jagapatinagaram village in Kirlampudi mandal of East Godavari on Friday night. (Representational image)

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Kolkata: Accused cab drivers confess to gangrape and killing of minor

The two accused, who are in their early 20s, have been remanded into police custody till September 9 for the crime.

2 Sept 2016 12:25 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: PTI)

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Will follow SC order on Singur line-by-line: Mamata

'Everyone will get back their land. Our intention is to honour the court verdict within the time limit.'

1 Sept 2016 5:55 PM IST

Business

Will study SC judgement in details: Tata Motors

Supreme Court said that land acquisition process for Tata Motors at Singur was faulty and did not fall within purview...

31 Aug 2016 6:00 PM IST

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Singur farmers celebrate Supreme Court verdict

Rallies were taken out with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's posters to cheer the verdict.

31 Aug 2016 5:31 PM IST

She was on her way from college when she was forcefully taken away by the men, gangraped by them and left to die in bushes. (Representational photo: file)

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Drunk cab drivers rape, murder 12-year-old in Kolkata; arrested

The girl was reportedly from a poor family and lived on a pavement in the city.

31 Aug 2016 2:02 PM IST

Australian pace great Glenn McGrath says its getting increasingly difficult for present day fast bowlers to choose between representing the country or be lured by the quick buck the Indian Premier League (IPL) offers. (Photo: AFP)

Sports

After Australia's 0-3 loss to Sri Lanka, McGrath fears whitewash in...

46-year-old McGrath urged Australia to take a cue from Matthew Hayden who reinvented himself in the early 2000s in...

30 Aug 2016 8:58 PM IST

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Mamata wants Centre to strike off West', call state just Bengal and...

Left, Congress and BJP members walked out of the West Bengal Assembly in protest against the decision.

29 Aug 2016 3:29 PM IST

National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) have signed an agreement for facilitating investment from Qatar in the infrastructure sector in India. (Representational image)

Business

Banks air concern on RBI credit rules to large borrowers

Banks say there could be some concerns for financing large infrastructure projects.

27 Aug 2016 7:34 PM IST

People rescuing children from the ward. (Photo: ANI Twitter)

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3 dead, 50 injured in fire at West Bengal hospital; infants missing

Fire broke out in the AC machine of a vacant VIP cabin at the main medical ward of the hospital.

27 Aug 2016 2:02 PM IST

$Singh also asked Banerjee and TMC to conduct a census on their \own party activists who are involved\ in cow smuggling. (Photo: PTI)$ Nation

Don't be like Kejriwal: BJP to Mamata after she attacks Modi

Earlier, in the day Banerjee had attacked the Centre and taken a jibe at the Prime Minister as well.

26 Aug 2016 8:52 PM IST

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Centre cuts state funds but spends money on PM's suit: Mamata

The West Bengal CM has threatened to launch an agitation in Delhi if the Centre doesn't waive the state's debts within...

26 Aug 2016 6:44 PM IST