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21 hrs ago | Daily Mail

India river cruises: Along the glorious Ganges from Calcutta to Varanasi

In a misty, cobalt-coloured dusk, I was out in the middle of the Gangetic plain, a place not normally visited by tourists.

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Sat Feb 11, 2012

The Telegraph

Jorhat girl traced to Delhi

Jorhat, Feb. 11: A Class IX girl, who went missing from here in August last year, was traced to a rented house in New Delhi yesterday.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

The Telegraph

hit at the headquarters

The world of politics is 'an unweeded garden, /That grows to seed'. Hamlet would have found much in the Indian political scene familiar and as rotten as the state of Denmark.

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The Telegraph

Potpourri

Neha Dhupia rocked Shisha on Thursday night for close to two hours, shaking a leg to Zor ka jhatka and posing just for t2! Looking glam in a Shivan & Narresh red-and-pink silk tube dress with bow detailing, the Julie actress was in town for a private launch party of the PVR multiplex at Howrah's Avani Riverside Mall.

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The Telegraph

Brain pacemaker cure for Parkinson's

Many of Calcuttans have a pacemaker regulating their heart rate but Sheikh Salauddin is among the few who have one implanted in his brain - something that has almost cured him of Parkinson's disease.

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Related Topix: India, World News, Parkinson's Disease, Health

Thu Feb 09, 2012

OregonLive.com

A Holy God

"Holy, Holy, Holy" was written by Reginald Heber, an Anglican clergyman, nearly two centuries ago.

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The Telegraph

PVR makes city debut

The country's first and biggest multiplex chain arrived in Calcutta on Thursday, lifting the curtain on a four-screen property at Avani Riverside Mall in Howrah.

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The Telegraph

Morcha counters Partha claim on wage

Morcha counters Partha claim on wage - Government still pays Rs 67 to workers in three hill tea gardens, says Kurseong MLA Darjeeling, Feb.

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Wed Feb 08, 2012

The Telegraph

Mercury soars before 'last dip'

Summer made its sultry presence felt in the city on Wednesday much ahead of the formal advent of the season.

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Psychology Today

Too Posh for Pregnancy?

Most people who hire a surrogate to carry and deliver a baby for them are women who cannot become pregnant or have been advised not to for medical reasons, or men looking to become parents .

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The Telegraph

Mumbai told: Vote Cong or be a Calcutta

Mumbai, Feb. 8: The Congress has played a Calcutta card in the battle for Mumbai but don't expect Calcuttans to write home about it.

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Mon Feb 06, 2012

The Telegraph

Celsius soars in winter wail

The chill played truant once again and offered the city a prelude to the hot summer months that lie ahead.

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The Telegraph

A big fat Calcutta wedding

I normally don't like attending weddings. But I was back in Mumbai after almost 17 years, to do exactly that - attend the wedding of Calcutta-based industrialist Ghanshyam Sarda's daughter Prerna with Abhinav Jhunjhunwala, son of Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, vice chairman and director, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group .

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Related Topix: Wedding, World News, India, Ghanshyam, Taj Mahal, Blues, Bollywood, Arts, Cinema

The Telegraph

Calcutta

Calcutta airport employees will be taught to serve fliers with a smile, an alien concept till now judging by the number of c... The parents of a six-year old girl, who died of severe burns in a private hospital on Monday, have accused the hospital autho... A woman was found dead with a rope, possibly used for strangulation, lying next to her and a ... (more)

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Sun Feb 05, 2012

The Indian Express

Undo Dhaka damage

Before the advent of political correctness, Tripura used to be called, informally, 'Little Bengal'. As recently as 1971, Tripura had played an important strategic role in Bangladesh's liberation.

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India Gazette

Culinary journey of Hindoostan on the canvas of Raj era

Indian cuisine is drawing global celebrities, its latest aficionado being Arnold Schwarzenegger who was reported missing his appointments to gorge on king-size naans and tandoori prawns at Bukhara at ITC Maurya.

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Sat Feb 04, 2012

The Telegraph

Six die in Calcutta as truck smashes SUV

Feb. 4: Four members of a Murshidabad family on their way to Howrah station, their driver and a man sleeping on a pavement were killed when a truck hit their SUV and pushed it onto a footpath in Calcutta before toppling over it.

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The Telegraph

RPF leader held in Calcutta

Calcutta/Imphal, Feb. 4: The Special Task Force of Calcutta police today arrested a senior member of the banned Revolutionary People's Front , the political front of the Manipur-based Peoples' Liberation Army , for his alleged links with the CPI in West Bengal.

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Fri Feb 03, 2012

The Telegraph

Tips from Europe for surgeons

The sessions will be part of the 58th annual meeting of the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons , to be held in the city from February 8 to 12.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, World News, India,

The Telegraph

Baby steps to think, learn, grow

We had kept a canvas near the Calcutta Literary Meet auditorium for all the participating authors and speakers to sign, with the aim of creating a memento of Lit Meet-I. There were the signatures of all the writers who spoke on the first day.

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