Declaring the festival open,Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that it will be competitive event from its next edition.

Murlidhar, however, didn''t name the businessman, who, he claimed, was the main accused.

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

Cameron is the second British Prime Minister to visit Kolkata.

He said the city has a huge need for infrastructure and an enormous amount of work is going on.

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has put its demand for a separate Gorkhaland state on the backburner at least for the time being.

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

The country''s banking industry started a new chapter with the launch of first Bharatiya Mahila Bank in Mumbai today.

29 kg gold, including 24 kilos from an aeroplane toilet, seized in last 24 hrs

Speaker Biman Banerjee said under Assembly rules, the CM can make a statement on any issue and no question must be asked.

Customs department Saturday seized a consignment of gold biscuits weighing 3 kg from the NSCBI airport.

The Supreme Court Friday asked the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to operationalise its branch from January 1 in Kolkata.

'If needed we will beg, never steal people''s money''.

Court cites lack of evidence, says victim never said she was raped by Shahzada

CM Jyoti Basu had received Mandela and a civic reception was accorded to him at the Eden Gardens.

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

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.

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

Named Chetna Yatra, the activists say the rally is a step towards creating public awareness about AAP in West Bengal.

Asked not to light ovens and cook food on pavements, vendors have begun shutting shop

A majority of people will have to pay up to get a glimpse of BJP''s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during a public rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on February 5.

With the Aam Aadmi Party assuming power in Delhi, West Bengal has started witnessing the party''s proliferation with each claiming to be the original representative.

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

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

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

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

Uttar Pradesh Government''s idea to introduce mentha (mint) -one of the most popular cash crops among farmers these...

Though Uttarakhand has often been described as a hub of herbs, it has so far failed to tap the natural resources to its potential.

Satnam Singh Mann and his group of dairy farmers are easily fielding a volley of questions from management students at Punjab Agricultural University.

The strawberry crop grown over hundreds of acres in Jammu is threatened by widespread fungal attacks.

GUAVA, called the poor man''s apple, is the sixth most cultivated fruit in India. But the wilt disease has stagnated its yield over the years....

For long, the mulberry silk produced in Jammu-Kashmir Valley was taken to faraway Western countries. As years passed by, silk looms here stopped spinning as fast...

Embryo transfer technology is expected to improve cattle breed in Himachal and enhance its milk production

While retail prices of milk in Maharashtra have been hiked thrice in less than a year, the state govt is struggling to keep dairy farmers in business

Dairy Development Board of Punjab is promoting milk substitute for better growth of calves

Milk is the what sustains farmers in the rain-fed hills of Namhol in Himachal Pradesh. An initiative of six or seven families taken in 2001

Punjab harvests cocoons twice a year. Hoshiarpur woman shows how to do it three more times.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, in an op-ed published in an official North Korean newspaper on Wednesday, said his upcoming visit to Pyongyang will help achieve progress in the negotiations on the Korean Peninsula's denuclearization issue.

Two drug dealers were arrested with 275 grams of brown sugar here, a Kolkata Police officer said on Wednesday.

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