Presidency College is on its way to bid adieu to the Calcutta University as the governing body of the college has decided to appeal to the West Bengal goverment to upgrade it into a 'Unitary University', a sort of autonomy.The governing body of the college met yesterday and took the resolution on demanding the government to immediately upgrade the college to a full-fledged university.It was also decided...
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Recently, there was a big fuzz about the social network sites failing to protect children. Different newspapers, among them the Guardian, reported a "head of goverment body responsible for keeping children safe" has criticizedFacebook is giving its users numerous ways to report abuse, under every picture you find a report button for example. And so does MySpace. Both sides are quite strict about sensitive...
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protest against the fourth round of tripartite meeting among the Centre, state government and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).The meeting is scheduled in New Delhi on December 21 to discuss the Gorkhaland issue.BBBC president Mukundo Majumdar said, ''The time is not right for such meeting as there are many foreigners residing in the controversial Darjeeling area and they should be identified first.''...
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Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee asks party workers to keep silence at a protest rally against the State goverment in Kolkata on Monday.Congress on Tuesday put up an impressive show in the by-elections in seven States wresting from Samajwadi Party the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat in UP and vanquishing the Left Front in its bastions of West Bengal, with support from Trinamool...
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manual error in the muster roll of Central goverment's effective Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MNREGA) here has proved irregularities in the scheme in Uttar Pradesh, especially in this backward district.Call it a blunder or what, the officials of the Varkari development block claimed jobs to unemployed for 1102 days against the usual 365 days in a year.What may sound more interesting...
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THEY'RE branding Edinburgh the booze capital of Scotland. Yes, even boozier than Glasgow. Who'd have thought?Little wonder, though, when you see advertised – by supermarkets, of course – vodka at 12 quid a litre and gin at the same hurry-while-stocks-last giveaway price.Cheaper than when, years back, we'd gleefully grab our one bottle at the airport'sduty free. Our little fling on a few days' holiday....
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State for Home Ajay Maken today said he ''repented'' why former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda lasted so long in the post and asserted that anybody, irrespective of the party, found involved in the money laundering scam would be dealt strictly.''Yes I repent the fact Koda was allowed to continue as the Chief Minister for such a long periodthere is no doubt about it,'' Mr Maken, then in-charge...
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Najib Tun Razak has said that the Home Ministry has approved citizenship for 2,220 out of the 3,335 applications by the Indian community.Addressing a function organized by the Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MAICCI), Razak said: “The applications were approved since the applicants had been loyal to this country and some had been waiting many years to become Malaysian...
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West Bengal Agriculture Secretary Sanjeev Chopra today said under-production in the Kharif season following insufficient rains would be compensated in the Rabi season in this 2009-2010 financial year.Addressing a press conference, organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) here, he said the state goverment was aiming at five to seven per cent annual growth in agriculture in the state.About 105...
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West Bengal Agriculture Secretary Sanjeev Chopra today said under-production in the Kharif season following insufficient rains would be compensated in the Rabi season in this 2009-2010 financial year.Addressing a press conference, organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) here, he said the state goverment was aiming at five to seven per cent annual growth in agriculture in the state.About 105...
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