Ali was produced at the Chief Metropolitan Court at Bankshall court this morning.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has offered a Lok Sabha ticket to former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly to contest next year's general elections.

Lawyers associated with several political parties but the TMC took part in the rally.

The state has already paid Rs 50 crore to the depositors, which according to the PIL, is not acceptable under law.

The matter has now been referred to Attorney General G E Vahanvati to work out legal details.

Left front and the Congress are peeved at the state government for not placing the CAG report in the Assembly for the last two years.

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

Cabinet reshuffle : Replaces senior leader with Amit Mitra; inducts 2 new faces

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.

Ailing actress Suchitra Sen, who has remained a recluse for the past three decades and is currently undergoing treatment at a Kolkata hospital, made an exception for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday and met her.

Rights activist Sujato Bhadra said Ganguly should have put in his papers much earlier.

BJP will also set up camps at Sector V to tap techies.

India witnessed a peak power shortage of 9% during the five years ending 2012 when over 50,000 MW new generation capacity was created, Economic Survey said today.

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 ...

India needs "urgent attention" on issues related to infrastructure, trade facilitation, taxes and credit in order to boost the country's exports, said the Economic Survey 2012-13.

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)

The over consumption of urea and limited use of phosphatic and potassic (P&K) fertilisers need to be addressed through appropriate price incentives by reducing subsidies to ensure sustainable practises are encouraged, Economic Survey said today.

Fall in global commodity and non-food manufacturing sector prices come to help

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

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.

A vegetable vendor with an IIM degree under his belt - that''s 26-year-old Kaushalendra Prasad of Bihar who would rather...

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

"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"

With the Rabi season around the corner, farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are facing an acute shortage of chemical fertilisers.

Early this week, Fieldfresh, an initiative of Bharti-Rothschild, dispatched a consignment of baby corns to London. In 2008, the firm had exported 200 million tonnes (MT) of vegetables to the European markets...

The exhaustive Dictionary of Indian Plant Gums, Resins, Dyes and Related Products by Dr M I H Farooqi is a unique effort...

The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme has not found many takers ever though it was launched way back in 1998. A Jammu and Kashmir Government report has pointed out that till 2007-end, not more than 74,301 cards....

Satnam Singh Mann and his group of dairy farmers are easily fielding a volley of questions from management students at Punjab Agricultural University.

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

Assurances from the Centre has failed to dispel the mounting concerns of Kerala home to lush expanses of coconut, cardamom...

Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful "invasive weeds" which made their...

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

The gentle mountain slopes in this fascinatingly beautiful place at once catch the attention not merely for their idyllic setting and extremely hospitable people....

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Agency (NREGA) scheme meant to provide minimum employment of 100 days per year has had in many places a ripple effect labour shortage leading to farm mechanisation....

Growing silently since early 1980s, small gardens have now come to contribute over 20 per cent to the total tea output of Assam

Pesticide residue, marketing bottlenecks likely to lead to a decline in exports.

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

Under an ICAR project, NRCM in Nagaland is working on increasing population of mithuns a milch animal referred to as the 'ship of the highland'' or 'cattle of the mountains'' through embryo transfer technology and has recently seen its first success

Tractor sales pick up; govt promotes use of implements, launches schemes for machines on rent and at subsidy

Says horticulture booming alongside agriculture, but not all are convinced

With farmers reluctant to look beyond paddy, diversifying Punjab plans assured price for basmati

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At least 21 people people were injured following a 6.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan's northwestern coast overnight and caused a slight tsunami, officials announced on Wednesday.

Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has quit as reports of a domestic violence incident from nearly nine years ago surfaced marring his chances for confirmation even as Washington readies for a possible confrontation with Iran.

Marta became the top scorer in the history of FIFA World Cups, including the men's tournament, after scoring her 17th overall goal in Brazil's 1-0 win against Italy in the Women's World Cup here.

At least 26 people were injured after an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck Japan's northwestern region, causing landslides and power outages in some areas, authorities said on Wednesday.

As regional language media consumption soars during the lockdown, social media app ShareChat goes full throttle with brand integrations