The 40 meets will be held in N 24-Parganas to guage people''s mood

Reviving an old bone of contention with the Congress-led UPA government just months before the 2014 elections, Trinamool Congress leaders Monday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram.

In another placatory gesture, the GJM Monday resumed work at the hill council ahead of Mamata''s visit to the hills

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet industrialists of the state and members of chambers of commerce on October 28:Partha Chatterjee.

Mamata Banerjee chose to hardsell WB as an investment destination telling the industrialists that land would not be a problem.

West Bengal may pitch in for the inclusion of another 1,000 gram panchayats under the ISGPproject funded by the World bank.

A group of farmers, numbering about 200, Thursday stalled a residential project of the Tata group.

A girl, who had resisted the attempts by her family to marry her off as a child, died late Wednesday.

Modi said the Congress was resorting to other tactics to defeat him in the Lok Sabha elections and stop his rise.

The girl''s family can choose to use the amount either for her further education or in her marriage.

Sudipta Sen has lost 30 kg of bodyweight in the last month and is keeping unwell.

The committee will operate as a task force, will promote the "single window" system for the clearance of proposals.

Barring some of her 'favoured'' journalists, the region around where the CM and her close aides sit, is inaccessible to all.

The Opposition Congress in West Bengal Monday reiterated its demand for a CBI probe in the Saradha chit fund scam.

Stating that Bhattacharya had discussed with him his wish to leave Jadavpur University and return to his parent institute, Basu said that there was no question of removing him.

Launched under the West Bengal Right to Public Services Act, 2013, Chief Minister said, the handbook would strengthen the public service delivery mechanism.

Trinamool Congress ministers are keeping their fingers crossed when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will preside over a review meeting of all departments.

Operational conversion unit bid farewell to its oldest workhorse after five decades of service.

Calcutta Tramways Company celebrated the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore winning the Nobel prize by offering special rides in a tram named Gitanjali.

Refusing to step down as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, retired Supreme Court judge A K Ganguly Monday claimed he had become a victim of circumstances.

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

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 state government''s directive to a private channel to stop airing a serial based on a story by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has raised the hackles of Opposition parties.

TV serial written by Taslima Nasreen was postponed with the instructions of Mamata Banerjee.

Bandopadhyay also questioned the pressure being put on Ganguly to step down as the WBHRC chairman.

Jalpaiguri : Man carrying the bomb on his bicycle had links with KLO, say police sources

The alleged incident happened when the laywer was interning with him.

State spends Rs 2 lakh per month on each PS, who have no work

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.

Apart from sexual misconduct, note also details his foreign trip, arbitration assignment.

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.

Senior BJP leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi Friday condemned the brutal gangrape and the murder of a girl from Bihar in Kolkata and demanded a speedy trial of the case to bring perpetrators to justice.

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.

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.

Indian companies raised a total of Rs 2.81 lakh crore in fresh capital from equity and debt markets in the April-December period of 2012.

India's financial sector faces certain challenges that hold it back from becoming a preferred destination for global investors even though reforms have made domestic capital market more vibrant and transparent, the Economic Survey said today.

India has lost about 10% share of the global BPO market in the last five years to destinations like China, the Philippines and Brazil, raising concerns for the $20-billion Indian BPO industry.

The Economic Survey 2012-13 acknowledged that the $100 billion Indian information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) faces some serious competition from many of the developing countries

Amid declining private investment due to high interest rates and policy bottlenecks, India Inc saw sales growth dip by more than half to an average of 11.4% during the second quarter of the current fiscal.

Resource mobilisation in the corporate debt category witnessed a significant decline as just Rs 4,974 crore was garnered through debt issues in the first nine months of the current fiscal, which was not even 10% of the total funds raised during ...

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.

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.

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

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.

Scientists at Jammu and Kashmir''s agriculture university claim to have worked out the perfect script to make India one among world''s top walnut producers....

The Saurashtra Kutch region, popularly known as India''s groundnut bowl, is threatening to fall off the agricultural map.

It has already helped grow cereals and fodder in the desertland of Qatar, mangrove species along the highly saline Gujarat coastline, and a wide variety of plantation crops on wastelands covered with fly ash....

A team from the Forest Research Institute (FRI), the country''s premier forest research organisation, will soon travel to Cambodia, to save one of the major attractions of that country.

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