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.

The joint secretary of the department, A K Singh, has been kept in compulsory waiting, which, in official parlance, stands for punishment.

The seven-feet long sculpture, weighing several tonnes, allegedly fell and broke into two halves during shifting.

Two years after bellowing smoke from a devastating fire in its basement smothered to death more than 90 people, mostly patients, a part of the AMRI Hospital in Dhakuria reopened its doors Monday for treating the sick.

The police have already arrested seven persons in connection with the gangrape.

Soon after sending a police team with a cheque of Rs 1 lakh for the family of the girl who was gangraped twice and died after she was allegedly set on fire by two of the accused, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday promised to rehabilitate the family in Bihar if they chose to do so.

A member of the TV show Satyameva Jayate, hosted by Aamir Khan, Thursday met the parents of the Madhyamgram rape victim at the local CITU office here and interviewed them.

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.

Keeping the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in mind, the Trinamool Congress has decided to recruit two interns from the Indian Institute of Management in Kolkata to help the party devise and execute effective communication strategies. ]

Commuters had a tough time in West Bengal as more than 49,000 private buses and mini buses remained off road Monday demanding a rise in fare.

BJP has set a target of at least five seats from West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections.

Amid concerns of possible downgrade of India's credit rating, the Economic Survey today said the government is taking steps to improve interaction with rating agencies to ensure that they make "informed decisions".

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

A variety of phishing campaigns are taking advantage to distribute malware, steal credentials, and scam users

Madras HC ordered the closure of liquor shops noting that there were huge crowds and no social distancing was being maintained by tipplers, however, doorstep delivery through online mode was allowed

UP''s sugar mills may not be in the red as they had claimed, says an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court

There is a shortage of food across the world and experts are trying to come up with ways in which the shortfall in supplies can be made up.

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...

For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country...

With less than normal rainfall, the farms in Gujarat are grappling with shortage of both power and water for irrigation.

The Uttar Pradesh Government has asked the sugarcane industry to adopt agro-techniques to boost productivity.

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.

"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"

For the past year and a half, Assistant Excise and Taxation Commissioner Y S Matta is doing organic farming on his 30 acres of land in Kalomajra village....

For a state that is battling labour shortage and has little water for irrigation, sowing paddy without flooding the fields (the method is called puddling) will surely prove to be a blessing.

The UPA government''s much-hyped National Food Security Mission launched in 2007 to boost the productivity of rice....

Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....

At first glance, the lush green fields barely convince that this is one of the dry regions of Andhra Pradesh.

Since the seeds were first sown in their lands four years ago, farmers of Katpur village in Amravati district have been patiently waiting each season for wonders to happen.

You''ll soon be in no hurry to use the tomatoes in your kitchen before they go mushy.

Growing moong with sugarcane and mango orchard has turned out to be a successful cropping pattern in summer for Bihar''s Samastipur farmers....

Rain is something tribals living in the cold deserts of Spiti Himachal''s fascinating mountainous region have seldom experienced.

Ladsavangi village in Marathwada''s Aurangabad district has always faced a severe water scarcity, and even clashes over water, for many years.

With three dams, five ponds and thousands of trees, Simon Oraon has changed lives in six Chhotanagpur villages

Govt may concede to the EPFO proposal for an extra 1% interest rate hike on retirement savings.

If successful, it would save paddy growers from depending on erratic monsoon and rapidly depleting ground water.

With subsidy from govt, sugar factories have placed orders for harvesters from abroad.

Farmers told crop will be procured at the MSP from only those who register in advance

The feat has inspired other villagers to write history.

Successful installation of a solar pumpset in Nitish Kumar''s village shows way to farmers to look for cost-effective irrigation

Ties up with a Japanese agency to share and transfer knowledge, experience and technologies for soybean cultivation

On one side, fear of wipe-out by foreign arrivals. On the other, hopes of better infrastructure

Having drawn up a plan to diversify from paddy, Punjab''s challenge is to find a way to market fruits and vegetables, especially when they come in a glut

Hives of the wild rock bee are no longer burnt by beekeepers in Melghat, who have learnt scientific techniques and are extracting enough to export

Pictures released by NASA some months ago, showing large-scale smoke emerging from the fields of Punjab due to burning of straw

Instrument tells the farmer just how much irrigation his paddy field needs

Temperatures rising by the year and rainfall erratic, Punjab sets up centre for research on how its changing climate has been affecting its crops, and how to protect them

State govt remains opposed as ever but it''s Bt that thrives on cotton fields

Guar in demand in international gas industry, Gujarat farmers go for the easy, profitable option.

In malnourished belt, a cooperative rescues farmers by procuring uncommon veggies.