Families of the deceased in Kolkata have been notified, and postmortem of all six were performed.

Amid the massive public outcry over the death of a 16-year-old girl who was gangraped twice and later set ablaze, the West Bengal government on Thursday condemned politics over her body and claimed it had fully cooperated with the bereaved family.

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.

The alumni meet of the class of 1989 at IIT-Kharagpur would have been a regular get-together of old friends going down memory lane but for Arvind Kejriwal, the new chief minister of Delhi, who has been invited to the meet.

Keeping the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in mind, the Trinamool Congress has decided to recruit two interns from the Indian Institute of Management in Kolkata to help the party devise and execute effective communication strategies. ]

Commuters had a tough time in West Bengal as more than 49,000 private buses and mini buses remained off road Monday demanding a rise in fare.

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

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

The former chief minister also alleged that all development work in the state had come to a standstill.

Even as Finance Minister pulls out all the stops to narrow high fiscal deficit, the subsidy bill will overshoot the target of Rs 1.79 lakh crore in this financial year due to higher crude oil prices

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

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 ...

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

India's tourism sector needs an urgent image makeover with higher investment in infrastructure, through PPP mode to capitalise on opportunities provided overall growth in world tourist arrivals, 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.

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.

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.

With India's show piece oil and gas exploration policy running into disputes, the pre-Budget Economic Survey today called for clarity in the policy as well removing distortions in fuel and natural gas pricing

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 ...

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

National Advisory Council (NAC) member Aruna Roy has criticised the economic survey calling it mere government rhetoric that signifies little for the unorganised sector who comprise 95% of the workforce in the country

The Economic Survey is both optimistic and sensible

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

The mutual fund industry has registered an increase of 29.4 per cent in the market value of its assets under management (AUM) during the first three quarters of the current financial year. According to the Economic Survey, the market value of the ...

Equity issues raised in first 3 quarters more than that in entire FY12

Doing away with subsidies, correcting policy imperfections

Survey reiterates commitment to fiscal consolidation

The estimate takes into account a normal monsoon, further moderation in inflation and a mild recovery in global growth

All life insurers, both public and private, are committed to process any death claim pertaining to COVID-19 at the earliest,the Council said in a statement

A variety of phishing campaigns are taking advantage to distribute malware, steal credentials, and scam users

Madras HC ordered the closure of liquor shops noting that there were huge crowds and no social distancing was being maintained by tipplers, however, doorstep delivery through online mode was allowed

In the life of a farmer, flowering or fruition usually constitutes a happy period, brimming over with potential of a good harvest.

The farmers of Dindori, the emerging hub of grape cultivation near Nashik, are fanning out to exports, wine grapes cultivation and wineries

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.

With farmers turning entrepreneurs by forming companies through Special Economic Zones a wine company for the first time has invited farmers to become shareholders.

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

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

Himachal''s apple revolution, which spawned an economy worth Rs 1,500 crore, has its roots in the Kotgarh belt in the upper Shimla region, 82 km from here.

In the very first year of the 11th Five Year Plan, the agriculture sector in Uttar Pradesh has suffered a setback...

With the World Bank giving a call to shift focus on agriculture to tackle food crisis, data gleaned from Punjab's villages only add to its urgency.

In a situation mirroring the change in the national economy, the tertiary sector in Jammu and Kashmir is fast threatening to overtake the primary sector.

While average rainfall figure for Uttarakhand between June and Sept stood at 1,199 mm, Doon valley received 2,240 mm

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.

Orissa is staring at a mini drought after lack of winter rain has led to wilting of standing paddy crops in over 2.86 lakh hectares of land.

Even as Kashmir loses thousands of hectares of its agricultural land to urbanisation...

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

It turned out to be a prosperous 2008 for Punjab farmers as they reaped rich dividends from the bumper wheat and paddy crops. The plentiful season brought some cheer for the state Government as well with Punjab farmers

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....