He said the party needed to motivate people to build a movement against "state-sponsored terrorism".

Mitra said he felt good to be in the company of Congress leaders with whom he had worked closely in the past.

BJP state president Rahul Sinha claimed that whatever "traces of CPM remain in Kerala would soon be wiped out".

The WBHRC, however, could not confirm if he will be there and he did not attend office on Monday.

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.

Coming to the defence of Justice A K Ganguly again, former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Thursday said it would be a 'travesty of justice'' if SC was requested by the Centre to probe into the allegations against him afresh.

Even the Trinamool leaders claimed to be in dark about the impending reshuffle.

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

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

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

The Survey, tabled by Finance Minister P Chidambaram in Parliament, projected an optimistic growth rate of 6.1-6.7% for the 2013-14 claiming that the downturn is more or less over and economy is looking up.

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

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

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

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

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When he would come home from his modest half-acre farm after sundown, Ramesh Pradhan wouldn''t go near his children and wife until he had bathed and changed his clothes.

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The Bt gene gave cotton farmers freedom from bollworm. Now the weedicide-resistant gene is likely to relieve them of weeds as well.

Mango growers of Marathwada region fear more than 50 per cent losses this season.

Aeroponics reportedly ensures five to six times more production of potato minitubers as compared to traditional tissue culture system; the institute has started a commercial unit in Modipuram, UP.

While the crop''s acreage this season is highest ever in the country, the yield will now depend on weather conditions.

In Arunachal''s Lower Dibang Valley, the fruit slips into the hands of middlemen in the stage of flowering itself in the absence of market linkages and storage facilities.

Kinnows a citrus fruit considered a half-brother of orange are set to be costlier this season with Punjab staring at a poor yield of the fruit.

The state was chosen for the India-UK study as it is most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change

Besides, the solvent extraction technology is also not environment-friendly.

Decent rainfall, coupled with contract farming and govt policies, boosts wine production