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No confidence in Mamata? Her political thappad in Delhi is being felt in Kolkata
Roy •Is Mamata's no-confidence motion that went nowhere going to backfire on her? Didi says she stood up for her principles. But one of her own MPs says she got a political thappad. And other MPs are speaking up.
Anti-Islam film and FDI? Kolkata spots the foreign hand
Fp Editors •The foreign hand is alive and well. It's behind the anti-Islam film and it's behind FDI. Or so feel the 25,000 protesters who gathered outside the American Center in Kolkata.
IRS 2012 Q1: Digital grows at 47% CAGR, print in trouble
Anant Rangaswami •While newspaper owners have a lot of thinking to do to arrest the decline, digital publishers have a lot to celebrate in the 47 percent CAGR.
Finally revealed: The secret message in that Mamata cartoon
Roy •Trinamool supporters have finally come up with an explanation about why that cartoon has got them seeing red. It apparently has a secret coded message.
Supreme Court takes on sex, sex and more sex
Roy •The Supreme Court is wading into some unnatural waters. They are talking about sex. Gay sex. Animal sex. Sex by imitating an orifice. The hearings on Sec 377 are getting quite graphic as the court ponders what is the 'order of nature' in 2012.
The argumentative Bengali: 2G judge and ex-Speaker in public spat
Roy •The fallout of the 2G verdict continues. Ashok Ganguly, one of the judges who delivered that verdict, and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee are duking it out on the front pages of a Kolkata daily.
Anna's ex-blogger shreds, burns 'Gang of Four'
Roy •The cracks in Team Anna are on full display. Now Anna's former blog writer has come out hard against the rest of Team Anna in an interview. They aren't just undemocratic, he says. They are also endangering Anna's health.
The catch-22 of being a Jyotirmoy Dey
Roy •India, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, ranks 13th in the world on the Impunity Index which measures the degree to which a country can’t or won’t bring the killers of reporters to justice.
Obama, Congressmen and techies atwitter about Twitter
Yeung •From presidential committees to new photo-sharing features to helping Kuch Kuch Hota Hai go viral in 2011, Twitter's making headlines.
Pakistan media grades Gilani speech a flop
Roy •Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani might just have the world's most thankless job. His much awaited speech to the Pakistani parliament about the Abbottabad debacle was a perfect example of that. It pleased no one.