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By STAFF Writer SUNDAY, May 05, 2011 The ejection of Left in West Bengal (India) Assembly Election is a shameful end of an ideological political dynasty and rise of a fresh force that promised tons of things. Nonetheless,   Trinamool Congress Party chief  Ms. Mamata Banerjee who was always hold responsible for a party of goons, is now come with more sophisticated team, consisting of civil servants and more intellectuals.  Below are image formats of Newspapers' Front Pages from India a day after the election results were declared. Click on the images to enlargen and read. Some computer's monitor or other devices may get smaller font or tough readability. Sorry for the inconvenience. The Asia Age - New Delhi (India) The Telegraph - Kolkata (India) Ananda Pazaar Patrika - Kolkata (India) Aajkal - Kolkata (India) Prahar - India Nayee Duniya - India Deccan Chronicle - South Inida (India) Patrika - India

"Vegas" Dave Oancea won $2.5 million in 2015 after betting just $140,000 on the Kansas City Royals to win World Series. It was widely reported in the Las Vegas Sun and other media. According to Mel Magazine, one week into the season Dave placed bet at 30-1 odds and got the largest payout futures bet win in the history of gambling. Many may not know, Dave started his career as a professional gambler by taking a student loan of just $10,000. With the money he went to Vegas and surprisingly put it all on red. In an interview he said to had turned the 10 grand into 20 and from here his bankroll started too. The next day he dropped out of school and for a living began with betting on sports. Today, his current business is blooming. He places big bets on longshot sports results, and likely keeps a very close eye on his bankroll . However, there are some obstacles in his blooming business. After winning big no casino allows placing a large bet in one go and so he has sprea...

Patna - It is perhaps the weirdest news or may be an exemplary example of corruption that passes all human imagination. In Bihar 298 women claim to give birth two or five children in a span of 60 days - the authenticity is perhaps doubtful but at least the government incentive scheme shows the record right. According to Bihar government's Janani Suraksha Yojana, a women gets around Rs.1,000 when she delivers a child. However, the scheme goes upturn and government has to pay whopping Rs.6.6 lakh as incentive to 298 women who claimed to be a mother of new born infants. The report is published by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that exposes a different type of corruption in the state. This pandemonium was found in different districts in the year 2008-09. According to CAG report, the districts of Bhagalpur, East Champaran, Gopalganj, Kishanganj and Nalanda, had all those mothers who bore two to five babies at the span of 60 days. "The concerned officials paid incentive...

By ONE Liners Agency May 30' 2013 Multiple National Award winner and Bengali filmmaker passed away after a cardiac arrest today, Mary 30' 2013, at around 7:30 A.M. (local time) in Kolkata. He was 49. Rituparno Ghosh was suffering from pancreatitis, said his colleague Gautam Ghosh. After the director's death politicians and celebrities were seen visiting his residence where he lived alone. Ghosh has won twelve National Awards for his films like Utsab, Dosor, Dahan, Shob Charito Kalponik, Abohoman and The Last Lear. He has made 19 films. Hirer Angti was his first film as a director made in 1994. Same year he made Unishe April, which won National Film Award for Best Feature Film. Rituparno Ghosh was born in Kolkata on August 31, 1963 to a documentary film maker. He did his schooling from South Point High School and graduated in economics from Jadavpur University in the city. Films directed by Rituparno Ghosh Hirer Angti (1992) Unishe April (1994) Dahan (199...

By STAFF Writer December 28, 2012 Indian Automobile Market always has been a hot cake for almost all major Automobile brands. Better living conditions, upgraded standards and demanding nature of the Indians have made many International brands to drive down their Super machines to India. Now, Just Imagine!! what we are going to do today, is something which you have been waiting for. We are going to present you the Super Knockout Comparison of two brilliant machines. The first one comes from Japanese Manufacturer, Honda City and the second one is Skoda Rapid. So, we suggest you to fasten your seatbelts, because we are going to accelerate the heating Knockout test between two hotty Sedans. Introduction: Honda City doesn’t need any introduction. It has been roaring on the roads from over 30 years now. this car has always been a profitable product for Honda. Honda City is manufactured in 7 countries and is driven in more than 39 countries. Skoda Rapid is an entry-level s...

"Vegas" Dave Oancea won $2.5 million in 2015 after betting just $140,000 on the Kansas City Royals to win World Series. It was widely reported in the Las Vegas Sun and other media. According to Mel Magazine, one week into the season Dave placed bet at 30-1 odds and got the largest payout futures bet win in the history of gambling. Many may not know, Dave started his career as a professional gambler by taking a student loan of just $10,000. With the money he went to Vegas and surprisingly put it all on red. In an interview he said to had turned the 10 grand into 20 and from here his bankroll started too. The next day he dropped out of school and for a living began with betting on sports. Today, his current business is blooming. He places big bets on longshot sports results, and likely keeps a very close eye on his bankroll . However, there are some obstacles in his blooming business. After winning big no casino allows placing a large bet in one go and so he has sprea...

By STAFF REPORTER October 17, 2011 In the first eight months of this year the trade between Thailand and Cambodia went up by 8%. Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh said yesterday the trade between went up to $1.93 billion. The export of Cambodia to Thailand was 125.6 million dollars, which is 17% lower compared to the same period last year, whereas the export of Thailand to Cambodia went up by 10% to 1.8 billion dollars. Director of Thai embassy's Foreign Trade Promotion Office, Jiranan Wongmongkol said trade between the two countries is seeing better recovery since August when the Pheu Thai Party came to power led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. She added, "We project that through restoring good relations between the two nations, the bilateral trade will grow around 20 percent this year." Director of statistics department at Cambodia's Ministry of Commerce, Kong Putheara also said that Cambodian and Thai trade would re-grow well henceforth after it slow...

Incest Story In Haryana Just a few days back India gloriously celebrated its 64th Independence Day but the oxymoron of Indian freedom runs in Indian villages. Nowadays one of the most noted sarcasms is quite in style in national news channels. The noise is quite audible, and annoyance level is also comfortably high. The subject is the most tempting one to mankind – sex. Haryana, a state in India known for flourishing industrialism and affluent farmers, seems living in the medieval period. The self-proclaimed Haryana’s Khaps are the sham ‘kings’ of the villages. Their “moral judgments” can even make shy to the epitomes of immorality. They do all sort of things – to solve personal problems of family, to give judgment of any conflict, and above all their profound knowledge in ancient gotras, caste system etc. is mind-boggling. A recent example is about a law graduate and resident of Karora village Seema whose brother had been killed for marrying a woman from the same got...

From EDITOR's Desk August 13, 2011 17 years later, the story continues with a simple photograph of a sea green eyed girl when a casual photography by McCurry turned out to be one of those captivating portrait that sear the heart and ran on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The shy girl was among hordes of refugees at the refugee camp in Pakistan. The anger of those haunted eyes was apparent, which swept away the photography fraternity and not least the whole world, but after 17 years nobody actually remember her, even her name. The year is 2011 when a team from National Geography Television & Films brought McCurry to Pakistan to search the immortal face. They searched around Nasir Bagh where the refugee camp still stands lonely among multitude. After showing her photographs to number of people, they came to know the girl in the picture returned to Afghanistan and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. So, they decided to hunt the girl. ...