| Sun, 20 May 2012 Mamata Banerjee: A study in contrast
May 20: | Mamata Banerjee's car still stops at all traffic signals, she still lives in a single-storey house in a dingy lane, and wears her trademark cotton saris and rubber slippers. But professors get arrested for circulating her cartoons and for supporting slum dwell... | Mom weeps with joy, prays for other workers in Angola
| Jashodaben had wept every day for the last 10 days but on Saturday she was shedding tears of joy. Her only son, 34-year-old Vijay Valmik, who was among the 1200 Indian workers of a cement plant stranded in Sumbe town of Angola, had finally returned home to Petlad in A... | Record rain, record heat and wildfires
| Record rain, record heat and wildfires top the list of Michigan weather events on this day in history. From the National Weather Service archives here events that happened on May 20. | 1975 - A tornado injured one person as it destroyed two mobile homes at Byron Ce... | Gunnery base a safe haven for wildlife, Drexel team finds
| BASS RIVER — Curled up for a nap in the warm, sandy underbrush, the snake didn’t take kindly to being disturbed. | It hissed when Drexel University doctoral student Kevin Smith picked it up to show the neatly sutured scar on its side, where a transmitter was impla... | '500 EWS houses occupied illegally'
| BJP MLA from Khadia, Bhushan Bhatt, on Saturday alleged that around 500 housing units built for families belonging to economically weaker sections (EWS) at Santoshnagar in Behrampura area had been occupied illegally. Bhatt raised this issue during the coordination mee... | How did sex become so brutalised?
London - I met a close British Asian friend in a local Thai restaurant for lunch. On a nearby table sat a pandemonium of women. That collective noun is usually used for noisy parrots and so these were - excited, repetitive and raucous as they slurped their hot Tom Yum s... | Poetry and Literature Calendar
| A list of readings and workshops (May 20 -26) | TODAY, 3p.m.: Book talk with Tewodros (Teddy) Fekadu, author of “No One’s Son” (Leapfrog Press, 2012), a memoir of his experiences growing up in the midst of the Ethiopian-Eritrean civil war, including his abandonm... | >Symphony of the Goddesses: A Black Tie, Green Tunic Affair
| Last weekend my wife and I left our kids at their grandparents’ and headed down to the Southeast’s true cultural hub, Atlanta, Georgia, for a night on the town. Saturday evening the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre played host to a sold out performance o... | Mamata Banerjee: A study in contrast (One year of Mamata)
| Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) Mamata Banerjee's car still stops at all traffic signals, she still lives in a single-storey house in a dingy lane, and wears her trademark cotton saris and rubber slippers. But professors get arrested for circulating her cartoons and for suppor... | >Arts Academy Charter School sparks interest, draws applicants at Bethlehem info session
Express-Times Photo | PRECIOUS PETTYThe Arts Academy Charter School is scheduled to open this fall in Salisbury Township. | ... | |
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