Taslima had criticised a meeting between AAP''s Arvind Kejriwal and UP cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan on Twitter.

Arun Jaitley also urged the Supreme Court not to adopt an escapist route.

President said Ordinances should be normally promulgated only in the event of immediate need.

The petition is likely to come up for hearing on Thursday.

The TMC also took control of the New Barrackpore Municipality, which it was managing jointly with the Congress.

Along with former MLA Ajit Patra, Naren De a senior Forward Bloc leader, was attacked allegedly by Trinamool supporters in Dhanekhali.

Padma was arrested in 2012 along with six of her associates.

Bhattacharya said the walk was to protest the attacks on democracy by the state government.

AAP procession is planned from College Square to Metro Channel.

We are investigating into the the links between the Maoists and the retired doctor, said Goyal.

The number of migrants has decreased after the restriction on issuance of visa.

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

The apex court is already seized of a bunch of matters over validity of Section 66A.

Apart from several other issues, the decision of the ruling party to form a war crimes tribunal in 2009 is one of the reasons behind the existing turmoil.

Suman has since skipped party programmes, even when Mamata Banerjee met party MPs to finalise a blueprint to accelerate development work before the Lok Sabha elections.

The West Bengal Human Rights Commission is waiting for a reply from the West Bengal State Law Clerks'' Council on its action on a letter threatening to frame its Chairman Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly.

The emotive issue of domestic violence and the different ways in which it is tackled in the US and India was discussed at length when an NGO invited a US police chief over recently.

Mirza said he would send a report on Dey''s sudden move to his higher-ups and seek directions from them.

3 TMC workers have been arrested in connection with attack

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

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

The seven-feet long sculpture, weighing several tonnes, allegedly fell and broke into two halves during shifting.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said the trend of students leaving Kolkata for Bangalore or Hyderabad for higher education will be reversed in a couple of years as the state capital will will became a education hub.

The two sides also discussed the issue of allotment of land for construction of border outposts and BSF battalion headquarters across the state.

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

Dev claimed that about three lakh people will attend the rally tomorrow.

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

The forum has also demanded the new wage agreement be done in Siliguri and not in Kolkata and have planned a series of campaign programmes.

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

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

Traditional retailers are giving strong competition to organised retailers and the decision to permit foreign retailers to open stores in the country will not affect small players in India, the government said today.

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'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.

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

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 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

The Economic Survey for 2012-13 has captured the significant changes in the composition of domestic savings over the years and has outlined the required measures to shift investments in gold to other areas.

Amid concerns of possible downgrade of India's credit rating, the Economic Survey today said the government is taking steps to improve interaction with rating agencies to ensure that they make "informed decisions".

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.

Economic advisers in the Finance Ministry today projected India's GDP growth to recover to 6.1-6.7% in 2013-14 from estimated decade-low expansion of five% in the current financial year

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.

Going in tandem with the Rangarajan committee report, the Economic Survey has said that the government is reviewing the production sharing contract (PSC) to clarify the extent to which producers will have the freedom to market the gas

For Rajan, the crucial aspect of today's economic development was a query that disturbs youth -"Where will my job come from?

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

Of the first 10 months of the current financial year, exports saw a decline for eight months

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

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.

What is the spot-on way of regenerating our rural economy? Ask the 308 small farmers of Ghugial village in Hoshiarpur district...

Grapes have lost their allure for the farmers of Bathinda in Punjab, a region that is home to around 70 per cent...

Some say it began with the Mayans who used a stick to plant maize in unprepared soil while others trace it to ancient Egypt.