Five people were killed and nine critically injured in an explosion at Bajrapara in Jalpaiguri district in north Bengal.

GJM supremo termed hill council 'necessity'', months after he said it should scrapped

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

The death toll in Thursday''s bomb blast at Jalpaiguri rose to six when one of the injured undergoing treatment at North Bengal Medical College Hospital succumbed to his injuries Saturday.

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.

A central committee member of the Kamtapur People''s Party (KPP), which is spearheading demand for a separate Kamtapur state, has been arrested from Cooch Behar in connection with the bicycle bomb blast here that claimed six lives.

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

The outfit, which was not taken seriously by the Bengal Police in last few years, is now said to have considerable fire power.

Victim's father alleged that police asked him to leave Kolkata and return to Bihar with his daughter's body.

TMC MP Somen Mitra to quit LS membership on Jan 15, re-join Cong on Jan 17

Former Supreme Court judge A K Ganguly, accused of sexual harassment by a woman lawyer who interned under him, is contemplating resignation as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC).

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

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

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

Easy money policy of major developed and developing nations could aggravate inflationary expectations in India, cautioned Economic Survey for 2012-13

Amid debate over imposing higher taxes on super-rich, the Economic Survey today said efforts should be made to raise revenue by widening tax base and not by increasing the rates

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 ...

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.

The Economic Survey today suggested removal of controls on the "over-regulated" sugar sector in a phased manner as recommended by the Rangarajan committee.

Government should work towards easing "regulatory and bureaucratic impediments" to improve investment climate in the country, suggested the Economic Survey for 2012-13.

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.

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

The Economic Survey is both optimistic and sensible

Recommendations of Rangarajan panel on decontrolling sugar sector should be implemented

Survey says global financial conditions continued to remain too fragile to provide any external growth stimulus to the economy

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

India resumed selling mangoes to the US last year. Exports are now set to rise ten-fold.

Even as the world spins into a global food crisis, here''s some good news from Assam. Scientists in the Assam Agricultural...

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.

The first round of floods that hit Lakhimpur district in eastern Assam last week has already wreaked havoc on the farmers of that district...

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

Tired of fighting for the statutory minimum price for their sugarcane, many farmers in Kolhapur district...

After acquiring a monopoly in fruit production and sale across the country, Kashmir is now set to become the vegetable hub...

Tomato and capsicum growers of Himachal Pradesh have lost some 40 to 60 per cent of their yield to fungal diseases so...

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

The Amarnath land row which prevented the Kashmir apple crop from reaching the wholesale market, proved to be a blessing in disguise for Himachal''s orchards.

Two months ago, Kailash Thate, a young man with 10 acres of farmland close to the Ujjani dam, set up an agro-processing unit to extract fibres...

Two waves of floods and an estimated damage of Rs 330 crore have not deterred the state from setting an ambitious agricultural production target for this season

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.

Unlike other villagers for whom landing a government job was the ultimate dream, Bahadur Singh Verma of Saproon valley chose farming as a career for himself.

Earlier, sanitation of the field by removal and destruction of affected papaya plants was the only way adopted by the farmers to reduce the spread of the papaya mosaic virus disease. In some cases, losses were minimised by controlling the population of aphids.

Developed after years of research by agriculture scientists, the much-hyped new RR-564 Basmati variety seems to have proven a failure in its first commercial utilisation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Just when Valley growers were celebrating the bumper fruit crop and the beginning of cross LoC trade, early snowfall in Kashmir this winter ruined their party.

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

With the Uttarakhand Government seizing the initiative in the matter, the state might well be on its way to becoming the walnut basket of India.

Commercial cultivation of flowers is gradually picking up in Jammu and Kashmir.

It is said to surpass all qualities of basmati except the length of the latter. But surprisingly, Kalanamak, a fragrant variety of rice and named thus as its husk is black, isn''t popular among farmers....

How about repaying a loan in kind? This is exactly what a Kisan Bank set up in Dehradun intends to do...

The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to fund farmers, especially those in the hills, to build polyhouses modern greenhouses, in other words...

A warm winter, overflowing stocks and a rather bleak possibility of private purchase amid falling global prices, all''s not well with Punjab''s wheat crop this year.