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Ambani visited the two districts and took a survey of the worst-affected areas to assess first-hand the primary and immediate requirements of the victims

A day after suggesting that Indian economy is "poised to recover" as indicated by high levels of loan sanctions by banks over last two months, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday pointed out that banks are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the current coronavirus situation does not result in liquidity crisis for businesses.

Daybell said that after a difficult few months a sense of normality was returning to the COVID-19 ward in the north London hospital where he works.

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Finance Minister P Chidambaram today presented the interim budget for 2013-14, in which he managed to contain the fiscal deficit for the current financial year at 4.6 percent, much lower than the targeted 4.8 percent. The current account deficit for ...

Previously, Banerjee had conducted surprise visits to marketplaces to enforce the lockdown, catching unprepared violators off guard

PM Modi's pandemic messaging has been mostly directed at the middle class and elites and there's little empathy for the poor millions. Is he losing his political touch?

Suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh was summoned by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in connection with the latter''s ongoing probe into the Saradha chitfund scam.

Suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kunal Ghosh Saturday appeared before Bidhannagar police commissionerate for eighth time in connection with the Saradha scam.

A total of 560 complaints have so far been filed with West Bengal police by duped investors, the report stated.

Although the letter said that either Ghosh or his representative can appear at the ED office, Ghosh said he would appear in person.

A TTE of Brahmaputra Mail was detained Monday by GRP personnel for allegedly outraging the modesty of a woman passenger.

Firm''s land, buildings next: Justice Sen panel member.

The TMC donated Rs 41 crore to close to 2,400 para clubs this year with most of them receiving Rs 2 lakh each.

The committee will operate as a task force, will promote the "single window" system for the clearance of proposals.

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.

Sudipta Sen, chairman of the bust Saradha Group that left thousands defrauded, Tuesday said that the persons named by arrested Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh in a Facebook post, had no link with his company.

The Congress Thursday said the people need to know who took away the money involved in the Sardha scam swindle.

Justice Ganguly had been appointed as the chairman of the WBHRC in 2011 at the behest of Mamata Banerjee.

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

Sahara India Pariwar chief Subrata Roy said he wants to invest in West Bengal but never got an invitation from the ruling Trinamool Congress.

The Calcutta High Court Monday admitted a petition filed by a woman lecturer alleging that she was sexually harassed in a meeting of the Teachers'' Council and later suspended.

Two days ago, the Orissa finance department passed an interim order for attachment of over 14 acres of land, and freeze Rs 2,740 crore of the group in IDBI account in Balasore district.

Bera''s counsel had challenged the termination order, saying the vice-chancellor, as per legal provisions, does not have the authority to terminate the registrar.

Yechury said more time is being given to this company to siphon off its assets and relocate them.

The Bench was of the view that a committee is required to study such vast volume of report.

There are at least 270 political prisoners in Bengal

The state has already paid Rs 50 crore to the depositors, which according to the PIL, is not acceptable under law.

The alleged incident happened when the laywer was interning with him.

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.

By pushing up its wheat stock, the state has added to India''s increased food production.

You could say it is a summer of education for the farmers in Gujarat. But there are no boring classes in hot, windless rooms.

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

With less than normal rainfall, the farms in Gujarat are grappling with shortage of both power and water for irrigation.

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.

With the Uttarakhand Government seizing the initiative in the matter, the state might well be on its way to becoming the walnut basket of India.

Even though the weather and soil conditions here can seldom be compared, the yield seems to have transcended those boundaries.

Farmers growing cotton have reason to cheer. They will not have to worry about mealybugs which severely damage the crop even before flowering.

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....

Poor production of the fruit in Kashmir, Himachal has jacked up prices in Pune markets to a minimum retail price of Rs 120 per kg....

After championing a number of innovations in plant breeding and crop research, the Anand Agricultural University (AAU) in Gujarat...

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will now prepare a list of do''s and don''ts for farmers.

Even as India and Pakistan deliberate on a 'corridor'' for Sikh pilgrims to pay obeisance at Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara.

With subsidy from govt, sugar factories have placed orders for harvesters from abroad.

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

With several mills closing down and sugarcane crop unable to fetch good price, farmers of Champaran''s sugar belt have started cultivating turmeric