The Subhas Ghising-led GNLF had sought the tribal status for all the people living in the hills under the Sixth Schedule.

Left Front chairman Biman Bose today demanded a CBI probe into the multi-crore Saradha Group ponzy scam and claimed that several names other than that of its chairman Sudipta Sen had cropped up in connection with it.

The House, however, was not adjourned and continued with its business till recess.

Significantly, Governor M K Narayanan had said that he does not agree with the name change Bill.

Trinamool Congress demanded the resignation of former Supreme Court judge Asok Ganguly from the post of chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission.

Stating an inquiry would be made and those involved would be traced, Banerjee said the sleuths of Kolkata Police were on the scene.

The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) may boycott the closing ceremony of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of the West Bengal Assembly from December 4 to 6 over the Speaker''s permission to allow Congress members to counter the statement of CM Mamata Banerjee on price rise issue.

Stating that Bhattacharya had discussed with him his wish to leave Jadavpur University and return to his parent institute, Basu said that there was no question of removing him.

Bose pointed to the multi crore Saradha Chit Fund scam in which a Trianamool Congress MP has been arrested and the one in the Siliguri Jalpaiguri Development Authority and condemned them.

The Opposition leader also hurled accusations at the CM for running "a government riddled with corruption.

GJM panel to meet BJP leaders in Delhi, plans dharna at Jantar Mantar.

Rahul Sinha said the victory is indication of the huge wave that would soon follow.

Chit funds and other such schemes are clearly a concern and all regulators should be more vigilant.

K D Singh and V K Singh were addressing a state level convention organised by members of the Punjabi community in Rohtak.

Inaugurating the session on behalf of the CM, state finance minister Amit Mitra pointed out the "massive increase" in the budget allocation for minorities since Mamata came to office in 2011.

Modi will divide the country if he comes to power: Buddha.

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.

Private bus operators have been demanding a fare hike to cope with increasing operational costs and a substantial rise in fuel price.

A member of the TV show Satyameva Jayate, hosted by Aamir Khan, Thursday met the parents of the Madhyamgram rape victim at the local CITU office here and interviewed them.

The family of the 16-year-old Madhyagram gangrape victim will meet President Pranab Mukherjee on January 7 and are likely to demand a CBI probe.

Trinamool Congress in West Bengal Sunday accused the Opposition parties of making concerted efforts to belittle the West Bengal''s image before the outside world.

A K Ganguly confirmed on Tuesday that he had resigned as chairman of the WBHRC.

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.

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

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.

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

Reforms will help establish a credible social security system, specially for the elderly

Curb inflation, offer products such as inflation-indexed bonds, expand financial inclusion, improve access to financial products, says Survey

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

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To counter the debilitating effects of natural calamities, the Himachal Pradesh Government has proposed to the Centre...

The state Government is pleased at the production, the farmer with his cheques and transporters with their business.

It''s a story of one crop''s gain being another crop''s loss. In Punjab''s Malwa region, the traditional cotton crop is set to lose its hectarage...

While Punjab''s Malwa belt is witnessing rising incidence of cancer - largely due to addiction to alcohol and tobacco...

While farmers are selling potatoes for as low as Rs 1-1.50 per kilo to the middlemen, consumers are shelling out Rs 7-10 in the retail market.

Even as the national highway has opened, only a few trucks are plying with the result that fruits are not only rotting in cold storages but also in orchards. Losses so far: Rs 500 crore.

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...

It has taken 61 years for the famous produce of the Dal Lake nadroo (lotus stem) - to reach PoK.

When a demand and supply story goes horribly wrong, a bumper crop like that of potatoes in Uttar Pradesh...

Soaring potato prices have returned to haunt farmers and average consumers this summer again.

The UPA government''s much-hyped National Food Security Mission launched in 2007 to boost the productivity of rice....

An Oriya meal isn''t complete without dal, either arhar (lentil) or moong (green gram), in liberal quantity.

India''s agrarian economy has long been plagued by the lack of storage, marketing and processing facilities....

Always straddled with overflowing stocks, 'the Granary of India'' is now all set to have huge grainhouses. Of the total capacity of 127 lakh MT storage space to be created in the country, 71.25 lakh MT will come up in Punjab alone....

A team from the Forest Research Institute (FRI), the country''s premier forest research organisation, will soon travel to Cambodia, to save one of the major attractions of that country.

With no funds coming under the Intensive Cotton Development Programme and a Centre-state blame-game on in full swing, cotton farmers in Punjab are again left on their own to struggle against their fate and pests

Poultry farmers in the remote hills of Manipur have found two new birds Australian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) and turkey.

Despite knowing that its storage capacity was far less, the state government revised its wheat procurement target twice. Procurement shot up due to a populist measure of Rs 100 per quintal bonus

If successful, it would save paddy growers from depending on erratic monsoon and rapidly depleting ground water.

The Centre has sanctioned a special irrigation scheme worth Rs 3,250 crore aimed to meet a new micro-irrigation target of 1,43,500 hectares in the Vidarbha region still coping with reports of farmer suicides