Kolkata burns with rage Cane-charge and bursting of teargas canisters by the police and RAF failed to rein in the mobs that went berserk during a road-blockade programme called by a Muslim outfit.
India, IAEA set the nuclear ball rolling India on Wednesday initiated the process of negotiating a country-specific safeguards pact with the IAEA as a follow-up of the civil nuclear deal with the US.
Two die as building crashes at Nimhans Two Nimhans staffers were killed when a 70-year-old abandoned building on the hospital premises collapsed on Wednesday evening.
The incident took place at about 4:20 pm. The Nimhans quarters that collapsed on Wednesday.
Indian executives see 2nd highest pay hike India has lost its top rank to Sri Lanka as the nation with the highest salary hike to executives in the Asia-Pacific region during 2007, a new study by global HR firm Hewitt Associates said on Wednesday.
Activists of a minority forum set a car on fire, protesting against the violence in Nandigram and demanding cancellation of visa of controversial writer Taslima Nasreen, at Rippon Street in Kolkata on Wednesday. PTI
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Two Nimhans staffers were killed when a 70-year-old abandoned building on the hospital premises collapsed on Wednesday evening.
