Mamata magic: GJM gives in to DIDI''s Demand; also agrees to bipartite talks with state.

Chhetri had said this after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday.

Areas of Howrah and Hooghly and Contai in East Midnapore are still inundated.

After successfully hatching critically endangered Batagur turtles in captivity, officials at the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (STR) would release a batch of the hatchlings in the Sunderbans mid-2014.

West Bengal may pitch in for the inclusion of another 1,000 gram panchayats under the ISGPproject funded by the World bank.

In order to check the spiralling prices of vegetables, especially potatoes, in the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday imposed a ban on their export.

Drill, cultural programmes to mark the day.

Cameron is the second British Prime Minister to visit Kolkata.

Yadav had Sunday said that MPs should be banned from making speeches in English in Parliament.

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

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday said two years form now no Gram Panchayat in the state would be without banking service.

The Calcutta High Court Monday stayed a notification issued by the West Bengal government, which banned inter-state trading of potato.

In A move that has angered even those who owe allegiance to the ruling Trinamool Congress, the Mamata Banerjee government Tuesday banned all processions, rallies and demonstrations by government employees at Nabanna, the new secretariat building at Howrah.

The employees gathered outside Nabanna, chanted slogans and burnt a copy of the circular.

The LBA envisages exchange of 161 enclaves adversely held by India and Bangladesh in each other''s territories and alterations of boundaries in some places.

The meeting, convened to discuss the party''s strategy in the winter Parliament session, was presided over by party supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday lifted the ban on potato and vegetable export, allowing their movement from West Bengal to other states.

7-member team to visit Bangladesh High Commission today

A seven-member delegation met Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner Abida Islam and submitted a memorandum expressing concern over the alleged violation of human rights of Hindus.

Mamata said that her government would never allow any attempt to incite communal violence.

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

Preliminary investigations have revealed prima facie involvement of four customs department men.

The MP went on to claim that a large number of irregular chit fund companies had come into existence.

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

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.

10 depts yet to submit amount of land they have

The Kolkata police has admitted that the blanket ban on cycling and other forms of non-motorised transport in the city was initiated without making any study on how the ban would improve traffic.

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

Senior BSF officers are camping at the bordering areas to keep a watch," said ADG (East) B D Sharma.

Indian banks have set up over 40,000 ultra-small branches across the country to drive financial inclusion in un-banked and under-banked centres, according to the Economic Survey for 2012-13.

Pointing to sharp rise in bad loans, Economic Survey said the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of public sector banks are still at manageable level

The economic slowdown, a rise in interest rates and aggressive lending in good times led to a sharp rise in bad loans

Tired of fighting for the statutory minimum price for their sugarcane, many farmers in Kolhapur district...

For a state that consumes nearly Rs 500 crore worth of bananas every year - one of the highest in the country...

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...

How about repaying a loan in kind? This is exactly what a Kisan Bank set up in Dehradun intends to do...

Spiralling aflatoxin levels in groundnuts are giving nightmares to exporters in Gujarat, which accounts for over 50 per cent kernel exports from India.

The National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, is working to develop transgenic varieties of mangoes and bananas...

The long dry spell this monsoon has forced farmers to alter their crop pattern and switch over to the kharif cotton crop in several parts of Gujarat....

Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....

Banana grower Adhinath Barve of Junnar tehsil in Pune district is expecting to double his exports when he begins harvesting his three-acre plantation in February next year.

The total area under rice cultivation in Assam, which registered a bumper record production of 40.7 lakh metric tonnes of rice...

The diversification stride in the country''s granary state has reached banana groves. The baby step was taken in 2005 in a small village...

Orissa plans to raise per-hectare harvest from about 8 tonnes to 33 tonnes in the next decade; to plant Grand Naine banana rhizomes over 1,500 hectares

Banana growers in Punjab claim to be profiting heavily from the relatively new crop, but its one-crop-a-year pattern has prevented it from really catching on

Sources in the PAU fruit sciences department claim banana research had been halted midway because of lack of funds, staff and interest.

All analysts are optimistic on the stock, which hasn't seen any downgrade so far

Experts say while the decision is positive, it may not make any significant contribution

Provisioning costs higher than expected; FY21 EPS estimated to decline by 2-4 per cent

The earnings were better than what most of the analysts had expected. Kotak Securities, for instance, estimated the private lender to log net loss at Rs 4,404.4 crore in the quarter under review