Instant tea brewing at IIT Kharagpur

Friday 21 July '06

This tea is going to make your ‘‘dip, dip, dip’’ instinct go a little haywire. Brewing instant, soluble tea...

Calcutta HC orders derecognition of 28 B.Ed colleges

Wednesday 28 June '06

In a landmark judgement, the Calcutta High Court has ruled today that 28 B.Ed. colleges — which were functioning without securing affiliation from the National Council for Teacher Education — will be de-recognised with effect from 2004-2005.

Netaji’s dead but didn’t die in crash, says report; long live the mystery

Thursday 18 May '06

The Justice M K Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry has concluded that he is dead but that he didn’t die in a plane crash in Taipei in August, 1945

Trounced, Mamata’s party calls for 10-year plan to fight CPM

Friday 12 May '06

Except for a brief, three-minute press conference where she tried her best to remain poised in the face of abject defeat, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee remained indoors.

No sign of reforms here

Wednesday 3 May '06

The dam on the Ajay river inundates this tiny dot of a village every monsoon. No roads, kuccha or pucca, no electricity and no drinking water has reached Karimpur, barely 15 km away from Tagore’s Shantiniketan and very much a part of the Bolpur constituency in Birbhum, which goes to the hustings tomorrow.