According to the police, the incident took place late on Sunday.

3 TMC workers have been arrested in connection with attack

A Bharat Sevasharam monk was arrested and remanded in police custody for allegedly abusing minor boys in the ashram premises at Sahapur.

There was no official announcement whether portfolios of existing ministers would be changed, or anyone would be dropped.

Bodies of six persons of a family a couple and their four daughters aged 1, 5, 8 and 10 were recovered from a guesthouse room at Tarapith in Birbhum on Thursday.

Family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Monday appealed to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to respond to an RTI query on secret files relating to the mysterious disappearance of the INA leader.

In order to counter the demand for a fare hike by bus associations and curb the violation of rules by auto-rickshaw drivers, transport minister Madan Mitra said 1,000 taxis would hit the roads on January 1 and 900 buses would be provided by the state government by March 31.

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

Families of the deceased in Kolkata have been notified, and postmortem of all six were performed.

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.

Women''s organisations Friday sent a letter to West Bengal government seeking an impartial investigation into the gangrape and killing of a 16-year-old minor girl in the state.

The family of the 16-year-old Madhyagram gangrape victim will meet President Pranab Mukherjee on January 7 and are likely to demand a CBI probe.

The tower has a prayer room, a library, a guest house and a charitable dispensary located on its premises.

The report, however, has no mention of the investigation by the West Bengal Police.

The Economic Survey 2013 says that foreign exchange reserves were steady at $295.6 billion at December 2012 end. Fiscal deficit may be at 5.3%, possible that Chidambadarm may bring it down to 5.2%, committed to controlling fiscal deficit. Food ...

Claiming that the "downturn is more or less over", the pre-Budget Economic Survey today projected an optimistic 6.1 to 6.7% growth in the next fiscal and made a strong call for cutting subsidises

Indian banks have set up over 40,000 ultra-small branches across the country to drive financial inclusion in un-banked and under-banked centres, according to the Economic Survey for 2012-13.

As the government battles to keep food inflation within manageable limits, the annual Economic Survey of the Finance ministry said that existing price support mechanism, should not be the sold tool to incentivize farming, but instead methods other ...

Despite the Wholesale and retail Inflation moving in opposite directions, the government today exuded confidence that the headline Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation will ease to the range of 6.2% to 6.6% in March 2013, primarily on the ...

As the country faces the prospect of being saddled with record almost 100 million tonnes of foodgrains in the next few months, the government's annual Economic Survey released today said that urgent attention needs to be accorded to efficient food ...

India's tourism sector needs an urgent image makeover with higher investment in infrastructure, through PPP mode to capitalise on opportunities provided overall growth in world tourist arrivals, the Economic Survey said today.

Air India is likely to come out of its precarious financial position this financial year with a positive cash flow, as its performance has improved considerably, the Economic Survey said today.

The Economic Survey for 2012-13 released on Wednesday said that with moderation in inflation and expected fiscal consolidation there is room for further rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Industrial production presents a mixed picture of sluggishness bottoming out as well as continuing for a little longer period, the Economic Survey 2012-13 said today.

The ongoing issues in the energy sector, particularly related to pricing, may pull down growth of the overall infrastructure sector, the Economic Survey has warned. It recommended doing away with subsidies through import parity in domestic fuel ...

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 ...

Investors have put in more than Rs 1.2 lakh crore in various mutual funds in first nine months of the ongoing financial year compared to cumulative net outflow of nearly Rs 80,000 crore in last two financial years.

After being at the receiving end of public ire, the government did not miss the opportunity of slipping in a brief policy statement on addressing the issue of violence against women in the Economic Survey

At a time when a number of public private partnership (PPP) projects are in trouble, the ministry of finance has pitched for allowing flexibility so that a contract can be withdrawn and put up for rebid when a private party underperforms

Economic Survey growth figures as a "warning bell" as these came down from 9 to 5%, said Arun Jaitley

The cover itself shows that the main author of Economic Survey, 2012-13 is different from the one who penned pre-budget documents for the previous three years

India not only ranks first in the world in milk production, its per capita milk availability at 290 grams daily is marginally higher than the global average

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

Policy on price and procurement support should not encourage more production of abundant crops

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

If you are wont to frequenting Delhi''s five-star hotels, chances are your palate has developed a fond familiarity with...

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

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

The early onset of monsoon and heavy downpour have brought good news for West Bengal farmers...

Uttar Pradesh Government''s idea to introduce mentha (mint) -one of the most popular cash crops among farmers these...

Kashmir''s world-acclaimed saffron and its vast fields are fast dwindling, courtesy the poisonous dust emanating from nearby cement plants.

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.

Farmers in the Kuttanad region have been faced with a host of hurdles, ranging from sowing to marketing of the produce.

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.

This tiny pest was ravaging mint crops until one day scientists found out how to deal with it.

In the very first year of the 11th Five Year Plan, the agriculture sector in Uttar Pradesh has suffered a setback...

While average rainfall figure for Uttarakhand between June and Sept stood at 1,199 mm, Doon valley received 2,240 mm

On Tuesday, as a convoy of 12 pick-up vans carrying different varieties of fruits from the Valley crossed the Kaman Bridge, fruit growers lined up on the LoC to see off the vehicles.