Sexual harassment: TMC demands his immediate removal from rights panel post

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday lifted the ban on potato and vegetable export, allowing their movement from West Bengal to other states.

Case looked at as hierarchy battle between IAS, IPS.

Along with former MLA Ajit Patra, Naren De a senior Forward Bloc leader, was attacked allegedly by Trinamool supporters in Dhanekhali.

The apex court is already seized of a bunch of matters over validity of Section 66A.

Taslima told PTI that the story of the serial, which was earlier scheduled to be broadcast from Thursday night on the newly launched 'Aakash Aath'' channel, is about a Hindu family settled in the city.

L and LR department confirmed not receiving any requisition for land; Partha-headed IT dept''s performance too not at par

The party has called a Lalbazaar Chalo march on Tuesday.

As Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung prepares to take oath as GTA chief executive at Raj Bhawan Thursday, the state government is keeping its promise of releasing jailed outfit members.

An alleged conman was arrested late Sunday for having put up in at least three luxury hotels in Kolkata for days impersonating as a senior company executive.

Victim's father alleged that police asked him to leave Kolkata and return to Bihar with his daughter's body.

On October 25, when the victim was reportedly raped the first time, the alleged juvenile returned home in the evening to celebrate his sister''s birthday.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday denied interfering in the probe into the gangrape of a 16-year-old girl, beyond merely responding to people''s 'sentiments'' by deputing a senior police official to visit West Bengal and providing financial assistance to the victim''s family.

The Centre on Monday announced setting up of a slew of new hospitals and expansion plans for several existing ones to bolster health care facility in West Bengal.

Reliable and easily accessible financial saving opportunities can help boost total savings and reduce attractiveness of alternatives like gold, the Economic Survey 2012-13 has said.

State-owned enterprises in the mining sector have outperformed by recording the highest increase in their net profit among other industrial public sector companies during the financial year 2011-12, as against the previous year, the Economic Survey ...

The consolidated turnover of public sector companies in the mining sector increased 17.7 per cent in 2011-12

All life insurers, both public and private, are committed to process any death claim pertaining to COVID-19 at the earliest,the Council said in a statement

Last fortnight, Kerala''s paddy farmers took a strong beating after the state was lashed by strong, unseasonal showers...

The year began on a good note for farmers in Uttar Pradesh''s potato belt: they had recorded a bumper crop.

The state Government is pleased at the production, the farmer with his cheques and transporters with their business.

This May-end, around 270 pomegranate farmers from Atpadi will be the first graduates of the Sheti Shalas...

You could say it is a summer of education for the farmers in Gujarat. But there are no boring classes in hot, windless rooms.

It''s a story of one crop''s gain being another crop''s loss. In Punjab''s Malwa region, the traditional cotton crop is set to lose its hectarage...

All''s not well with the horticulture industry in Jammu and Kashmir. Even as the state Government claims to have spent Rs 88 crore...

While Punjab''s Malwa belt is witnessing rising incidence of cancer - largely due to addiction to alcohol and tobacco...

While farmers are selling potatoes for as low as Rs 1-1.50 per kilo to the middlemen, consumers are shelling out Rs 7-10 in the retail market.

Even as the national highway has opened, only a few trucks are plying with the result that fruits are not only rotting in cold storages but also in orchards. Losses so far: Rs 500 crore.

With the World Bank giving a call to shift focus on agriculture to tackle food crisis, data gleaned from Punjab's villages only add to its urgency.

One new variety each of three vegetables - bittergourd, bottlegourd and vegetable pea developed by the scientists of G B Pant University of Agriculture...

Earlier, sanitation of the field by removal and destruction of affected papaya plants was the only way adopted by the farmers to reduce the spread of the papaya mosaic virus disease. In some cases, losses were minimised by controlling the population of aphids.

It has taken 61 years for the famous produce of the Dal Lake nadroo (lotus stem) - to reach PoK.

"These machines have become all the more significant with the government declaring support price on the basis of parameters like staple length and micronaire value"

The Minimum Support Price of cotton that the Punjab Government had announced on the basis of various quality parameters of the crop...

It''s no longer serving its purpose only in the household kitchen. High-quality potato produced in the lower region of Himachal Pradesh....

Farmers growing cotton have reason to cheer. They will not have to worry about mealybugs which severely damage the crop even before flowering.

They can be seen vying for attention in the local markets, but consumers eye them warily with sellers barely being able to persuade them to change their preference.

Controlling this pest is one of the biggest challenges faced by the agriculture scientists of the country for the past four years. Its impact on crops, mainly cotton, has been devastating...

The long dry spell this monsoon has forced farmers to alter their crop pattern and switch over to the kharif cotton crop in several parts of Gujarat....

With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...

Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge...

GUAVA, called the poor man''s apple, is the sixth most cultivated fruit in India. But the wilt disease has stagnated its yield over the years....

Asia''s largest tulip garden, which could also become the world''s largest, is feeling the heat of global warming and the changing weather pattern of the Valley.

When scientists of Sher-e- Kashmir Agricultural University of Agriculture Science and Technology developed short duration wheat and maize...

At a first-of-its-kind 'scientifically-managed'' orchard at Kotgarh''s Harmony Hall Orchard, associated with the legendary Samuel Evans Stokes, around 10,000 fresh plants have replaced ageing trees. A weather station is keeping a tab on the orchard....

Ashok Bajare, a potato cultivator from Ambegaon taluka in Pune district has reason to worry. He has a Rs eight lakh investment riding on his potato crop at his 20 acre plot in Bhavadi village....

For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds....

Always straddled with overflowing stocks, 'the Granary of India'' is now all set to have huge grainhouses. Of the total capacity of 127 lakh MT storage space to be created in the country, 71.25 lakh MT will come up in Punjab alone....

With no funds coming under the Intensive Cotton Development Programme and a Centre-state blame-game on in full swing, cotton farmers in Punjab are again left on their own to struggle against their fate and pests

Unprecedented prices to ensure Punjab farmers junk paddy, embrace cotton in coming season