Chouhan said that the farm loan waiver scheme of the previous Kamal Nath government was a "trick of phantasm", indicating that his government could review it

According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, state governments' gross market borrowings stood at Rs 6.08 trillion in 2019-20, up from Rs 4.78 trillion in 2018-19.

The ICC T20 World Cup is slated to be held in Australia in October-November this year

As India continues its fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Tendulkar made a donation to a Mumbai based non-profit organisation to aid 4,000 underprivileged people, including children

Kohli, the current India skipper, also admitted the "magical" atmosphere will be missing if the cricket season currently stalled by the Covid-19 pandemic resumes in empty stadiums.

With eight more deaths reported Friday, the death toll in the state due to the recent floods touched 17.

All the three babies who died since Friday were underweight and had developed respiratory distress immediately after birth.

Accused in a 2012 case of attacking the District Magistrate''s bungalow in Murshidabad, Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury applied for an anticipatory bail Tuesday at a local court here.

A 19-year-old girl working as a trainee nurse in New Town was allegedly abducted and gangraped on Sunday, the police said.

A Murshidabad court Tuesday extended the period of interim bail for Union Minister of State for Railways, Adhir Chowdhury until November 16.

Yuva Cong rally: Commission to file report after depositions of CM, Buddha.

A truck can carry up to 10 tonnes of potato.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may meet the visiting dignitary during his 7-hour-long stay.

Hearing the girl's cry, neighbours rushed to the spot and caught the teacher and manhandled him, they said.

Mamata said it was good to see that many new hotels were coming up in Kolkata.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday said two years form now no Gram Panchayat in the state would be without banking service.

Amit Mitra said Bengal's collection is second highest in the country.

A total of 116 heritage buildings, constructed in 18th and 19th centuries and located on the bank of river Hooghly in West Bengal, will be renovated and preserved with the help of Denmark.

She said she had told the Finance Commission, Finance Minister and the Prime Minister on several occasions that this should be stopped.

Assembly: TMC chief says she needs time to clean muck left by LF''s 35 years of rule

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

The girl, a Class VIII student, stopped attending school after she got engaged.

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.

The heritage property was restored at a cost of more than Rs 10 crore to its original glory in 2010.

Mamata Banerjee said the state should be given at least a year''s moratorium on repayment of interests on central loans.

On Dec 8, a group of alleged TMC goons barged into the FB office at Cinematolla and beat several leaders.

The girl was in stable condition and that the state will bear all her medical expenses.

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

Altogether16,000 km of village roads would be developed through the launch of one kilometre all-weather roads in all of 3,349 gram panchayats in West Bengal from January 7.

Three days after six people were killed in a cycle bomb blast in Jalpaiguri, police have arrested a former Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) leader and launched an all out search operation for the top leaders of the underground outfit.

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

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.

The party leaders say that by introducing online registration, they are targeting the youths.

The village for the first time celebrated Durga Puja here in the village last year.

The cell would be formally set up after January 26, as the membership drive is going on, Bhattacharjee said.

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 ...

A year after India's economic growth is headed to a record ten-year low growth of 5% in 2012-13, economic advisers in the Finance Ministry expect the economy to recover to 6.1-6.7% in 2013-14.

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.

The Economic Survey today suggested the government reprioritise Plan and Non-Plan expenditure in its efforts to contain fiscal deficit at manageable levels.

Government today said 2012 has been a bad year for FDI due to global economic slowdown and steps were being taken to increase its inflow.

Delays in environment clearances needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis for achieving coal production target of 795 MT during the current five year plan (2012-17), the Economic Survey said today.

Cargo traffic at ports during the six-month period ended September 2012 grew by just 1.8% to 455.8 million tonne due to decline in shipments handled at major ports, 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.

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.

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

The pre-Budget Economic Survey for 2012-13, tabled in Parliament today, has exuded confidence that the Indian economy would bounce back to achieve higher growth of around 6.1 to 6.7%, up from the advance estimates of 5% economic growth in the ...

The Survey clearly indicates fiscal consolidation will be on the back of reduced oil subsidies