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UPA II: THE REPORT CARD
Young India wants a young PM

India’s politics is now poised tantalisingly between a tired-looking government that is doing everything in its power to surrender the initiative and a moribund Opposition that is equally determined not to pick up the gauntlet. HT reports. Flashback | One out of four Indians want Rahul as PM | Warning bells

IPL: molestation scandal
Enough proof to nail Luke: Cops

Delhi Police officials believe the molestation charge made by an American woman against IPL player Luke Pomersbach is true and they have sufficient proof against him. Karn Pratap Singh & Upasana Mukherjee report. Hotel's guard a crucial witness: Cops | I am disappointed: Victim video

Didi sees ‘reds’ in TV audience, sends police after them

First she called a rape victim a “liar” even before the police probe, then she ordered the arrest of a university professor for forwarding a cartoon lampooning her. HT reports.

Yeddyurappa to skip BJP national meet

History for Chelsea: Win Champions League 2012

Home-schooled 12-year-old cracks IIT

We will wait and watch, Maya says on Prez polls

1 lakh tabs promised, not 1 given yet

Marines denied bail, Italy summons Indian envoy

Girls outshine boys in ICSE, ISC exams

‘Inability to give back Singur land my biggest regret’

G8 leaders focus on eurozone crisis

Once more with feeling

Should the BJP project itself as a Hindutva party or as a modern, inclusive one? This is its dilemma. Chanakya writes.

red herring
All he needs is love

What is it about our home minister Palaniappan Chidambaram that makes so many people choose him as the man in government they love to hate? Indrajit Hazra writes.

The 20th Congress of the CPM in Calicut — the last before the next Lok Sabha election — deliberated on the party’s ideological and political positions with the aim of reclaiming its lost space in national politics. Politburo member and party’s key ideologue Sitaram Yechury explains:

Interview | Keshav Chandra
There will be visible improvement in the standards of trains

Keshav Chandra, appointed Member (Mechanical) with the Railway Board last month, is a man of many parts. Author of a book on sports called “One Track Mind”, which talks of excellence in sports through celibacy, Chandra has also been actively associated with the voluntary blood donation movement.

The cartoon suggests that Ambedkar is a laggard who Nehru had to goad to get a move on. Karan Thapar writes.

Anandan on Wednesday
The laughter challenge

Several years ago, when Sharad Pawar was returned to Maharashtra as chief minister by then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao – there was a brilliant cartoon by renowned cartoonist RK Laxman that said it all. Sujata Anandan writes.

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Breaking rules is the rule here

Whether we like it or not, the phrase ‘this is not cricket’ even today means ‘you are not being honest and straight’. Well, maybe it doesn’t mean that any more, maybe it all changed once commercialism took strong roots in the sport. Pradeep Magazine writes.

Blog | Ecostani
Cartoon row: A death knell for freedom of expression

The decision of HRD minister Kapil Sibal to withdraw the controversial Ambedkar cartoon from NCERT textbook shows that India is fast losing its democratic ethos for free speech. Chetan Chauhan writes. Desi in DC | Dabs & Jabs

Gulp Fiction: When Chetan met Salman

What happens when the 2020 Revolutionist runs into the original Midnight’s Child at an airport one night? Sorabh Pant imagines the war of words.

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Yusuf's show keeps Gauti's faith intact

Kolkata Knight Riders sealed the second place in the points table with a crushing 34-run victory over Pune Warriors in their final group league encounter of the Indian Premier League here today. Amol Karhadkar reports. Scorecard

No let-up in intensity from Delhi

Going into the match, the Delhi Daredevils would have been fretting over Virender Shewag's illness. But David Warner's swashbuckling 79 off 44 balls made sure the league leaders did not miss the explosive India opener. Scorecard

Chelsea beat Bayern Munich 4-3 on penalties to win the Champions League today after the two sides had been locked at 1-1 at the end of extra-time.

West Ham sink Blackpool to clinch promotion

West Ham clinched promotion to the Premier League as Ricardo Vaz Te's late winner sealed a dramatic 2-1 victory over Blackpool in the Championship play-off final at Wembley on Saturday.

World number one and defending champion Novak Djokovic swept past Roger Federer on Saturday to set up a Rome Masters final rematch with five-time winner Rafael Nadal.

Bhupathi-Bopanna sail into semis

Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna upset top seeds Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Canada's Daniel Nestor in a hard-fought battle to enter the men's doubles semifinals of the Rome Masters.

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WEEKLY MARKET REVIEW
Sensex falls 140 pts on global, internal worries

The BSE benchmark Sensex continued its downslide for the fourth week in a row, shedding another 140 points to finish at 16,152.75 due to persistent selling pressure in view of various negative external as well as internal factors.

Gold, silver hold firm on rising demand, global sentiment

Gold prices maintained its firmness at the domestic bullion market in Mumbai today on consistent demand from stockists as well as good retail buying interest, supported by buoyant global cues.

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Mallika Sherawat's graceful appearance at Cannes

SNEAK PEEK: Big B in Bol Bachchan

Freida Pinto at Cannes

Sonakshi, Akshay on a promotional spree

Anupama Chopra's review: Department

Department, about a special task force of encounter specialists, begins with this adage: Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. After that, Ram Gopal Varma retreads old ground: crooked cops, underworld dons, political leaders who function like underworld dons.

Rashid Irani's review: The Raven

Rashid Irani's review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Rashid Irani's review: Dr Seuss' The Lorax

'Sunny Leone was shy shooting love scene'

Aamir Khan in desi Inception?

I would like to do Fashion remake, says Parineeti Chopra

YRF Entertainment to produce Nicole Kidman flick

Nothing erotic about filming erotica: Pooja Bhatt

Live longer with a cup of coffee!

Coffee drinkers may live longer as new research has found they are less likely to die than non-coffee drinkers. According to a 14-year study, men who consumed six or more cups daily were 10 percent less likely to die compared with those who did not drink coffee.

New glass will revolutionise wine, says French creator

Misuse of erection pills can damage your sex life?

Why do men avoid veggies

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Kim and Kanye are perfect: Khloe Kardashian

No hurry to walk down the aisle: Nicole Scherzinger

Pamela Anderson performs lap dance

Rihanna goes topless in an erotic shoot for Esquire magazine

Angelina Jolie praises ex-husband

When Miley Cyrus had a heartbreak

To be a celebrity, be strong: Bipasha Basu

technology

Facebook investors left guessing after Nasdaq glitch

Individual investors were left in the dark for hours on Friday about whether their buy and sell orders for newly issued Facebook shares had actually been executed, in the latest of a series high-profile exchange glitches in recent years.

Worries mount as Nokia burns through cash

Nokia Oyj is tearing through its cash reserves at an unsustainable rate, raising what some analysts say are serious questions about the struggling Finnish phone maker's ability to stabilize its finances in the months ahead.

Get ready for new gaming experiences

Mario dons his tennis shorts, elite soldiers move in for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, and mythical medieval adventures beckon in Dragon's Dogma.

books

Seer of the present and past

The writer and polemicist Carlos Fuentes, who has died aged 83, published more than 60 works, including novels, short stories, essays and plays, in a career spanning six decades.

Review: Em and the Big Hoom

The easy way to describe Jerry Pinto’s autobiographical novel is to say that it is a son’s account of life with a mentally unstable mother. Imelda Mendes is called ‘Em’ by her two children, the unnamed narrator and his elder sister Susan.

Some CBSE courses have no takers

Even when the board keeps adding new vocational courses every year, not many universities are keen to consider these for admission to colleges, writes Garima Upadhyay Rawat.

Dos and don’ts for CSAT

This year civil services preliminary examination, due on May 20, 2012, will be the second based on the new pattern. Read on for brief and practical checklist of dos and don’ts.

48 hours in Hatay, Turkey

With thousands of refugees now taking shelter in Hatay after fleeing violence just across the border in their Syrian homeland, Turkey's panhandle province has been in the news over the past year for all the wrong reasons.

Top 10 graduate destinations

Soon it will be time for graduates to celebrate the successful completion of their degrees. In that spirit, online travel adviser Travel Ticker offers its top 10 graduate destinations.

Travel bug? UN predicts a billion international tourists in 2012

More than one billion tourists will take a trip this year crossing an international boundary, a threshold never before reached. International tourism grew by 5.7 per cent in the first two months of 2012.

Consistency paid well to ICSE and ISC toppers

The girls rule the roost in this year's examination results announced by CISCE on Saturday. Shalaka Kulkarni from Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane and Madhvi Singh from Carmel School, Dhanbad, have been receiving congratulatory messages since Saturday morning...

NASA trains astronauts to land on asteroid

In a space mission straight from the movie Armageddon, astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid, explore it for minerals and even destroy the object if it threatens the Earth. The training programme will teach them to..

LATEST NEWS

UPA II: THE REPORT CARDYoung India wants a young PM

IPL: molestation scandalEnough proof to nail Luke: Cops

red herringAll he needs is love

Interview: Sitaram YechuryBreaking Cong, BJP’s bipolar politics is priority

Interview | Keshav ChandraThere will be visible improvement in the standards of trains

sunday sentimentsDrawing the line

Anandan on WednesdayThe laughter challenge

Multimedia

Big PictureBreaking rules is the rule here

Blog | EcostaniCartoon row: A death knell for freedom of expression

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