India will soon join the league of a few advanced nations to boast of a dedicated military satellite. An ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) project, the satellite will be launched by the end of this year. The satellite, capable of capturing advanced imagery, will be dedicated to military surveillance. This will surely add to India’s [...]

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The Indian rupee continues its climb against US dollar touching a new nine-year high of 40.22 in early trade today. However, the rupee value remains the same as par other currencies. A weak dollar and huge dollar inflows into the market - $5.8 million in July alone - are responsible behind the rupee’s surge. [...]

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The human body is compressible, and although lacking all sense of biology, the mini-bus conductors are well aware of this fact. So between 9 to 11 in the morning a hundred such human bodies are compressed into the 12 inch by 20 inch tin boxes.
The technique is to pile the bodies towards the back [...]

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The only event in the Kolkata weather is the monsoon. It comes fully equipped with smoke and dust and dead, dried leaves. The dust enters your hair and your nose and you run indoors from the storm. The grey nimbus clouds are like poison- dark and cool. These are not the white cotton clouds you [...]

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