With the arrival of Diwali comes better, brighter moments for sex workers in Watgunj area of Kidderpore who make a substantial sum after selling designer candles made by them to corporate executives and guests at hotels.

This is the first time Mahapatra would approach a court personally over the issue.

Modi said the Congress was resorting to other tactics to defeat him in the Lok Sabha elections and stop his rise.

Patil said she had told Singh to Keep all issues aside and serve the nation.

Congress blamed Trinamool Congress leadership for conniving with potato traders and big hoarders to hike the price of the essential vegetable.

Partha Chatterjee, tried to brush aside the auto firm's submission.

A K Banerjee directed the state government to file the affidavit by December 2.

Those identified spots include Victoria Memorial Hall, Nakhoda Maszid, St Paul''s Church, and Town Hall.

Police suspect gang rivalry over turf control and extortion as possible reasons behind the shootout.

Tripartite meet : Demands 3-tier Panchayati Raj system in hills, backward status for GTA area

Ghosh would be writing to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting him to start a CBI probe into the scam.

Cops raid MP''s home after FB post, seize hard disk. TMC says 'fire started by Ghosh will decimate many''.

In pre-recorded video, arrested MP claims Saradha Group media houses were like TMC mouthpiece; says he is being made scapegoat

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.

Police will lodge a case of impersonation against unidentified persons for using the Facebook account of Kunal Ghosh.

The govt might write to the President to remove Ganguly as chairperson of West Bengal Human Rights Commission.

Sharmistha addressed a series of rallies for Congress in Delhi, which is going to polls on December 4.

Karat said BJP and RSS are trying to add fuel to the fire of communalism in the country.

Many high-profile invitees are likely to skip the programme, though Ganguly may attend it.

Clearances have been received from the fire and health department and OPD would be functional by the end of December.

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

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

The girl, a Class VIII student, stopped attending school after she got engaged.

The court has extended the date of his statement under Section 164 before the magistrate till December 27.

While the first home will accommodate 100 elderly sex workers , the second one, for their daughters, will house 50 girls.

Lawyers associated with several political parties but the TMC took part in the rally.

The West Bengal Human Rights Commission is waiting for a reply from the West Bengal State Law Clerks'' Council on its action on a letter threatening to frame its Chairman Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguly.

The girl was in stable condition and that the state will bear all her medical expenses.

The Economic Survey 2013 says that foreign exchange reserves were steady at $295.6 billion at December 2012 end. Fiscal deficit may be at 5.3%, possible that Chidambadarm may bring it down to 5.2%, committed to controlling fiscal deficit. Food ...

The pre-Budget Economic Survey for 2012-13, tabled in Parliament today, has projected a turnaround in the economy in 2013-14, with growth expected to be in the range of 6.1 to 6.7 per cent, up from the advance estimates of five per cent growth in ...

Even as Finance Minister pulls out all the stops to narrow high fiscal deficit, the subsidy bill will overshoot the target of Rs 1.79 lakh crore in this financial year due to higher crude oil prices

A proposal is being put in place for providing 100% government funding to developers so as to rescue the highways sector, where there are few takers because of severe equity crunch, Economic survey said today.

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

Chief Economic Advisor says we need to be sensible rather than flashy, over-the-top hits

The estimate takes into account a normal monsoon, further moderation in inflation and a mild recovery in global growth

A Ghaziabad institute develops a hydroponics machine to produce quick, green fodder.

The farmers of Dindori, the emerging hub of grape cultivation near Nashik, are fanning out to exports, wine grapes cultivation and wineries

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 the World Bank giving a call to shift focus on agriculture to tackle food crisis, data gleaned from Punjab's villages only add to its urgency.

One new variety each of three vegetables - bittergourd, bottlegourd and vegetable pea developed by the scientists of G B Pant University of Agriculture...

Orissa is staring at a mini drought after lack of winter rain has led to wilting of standing paddy crops in over 2.86 lakh hectares of land.

Tomato and capsicum crops grown in the mid-hills of the state are increasingly being lost to collar rot and leaf blight diseases.

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....

With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...

Two droughts wiping out 50 per cent of the rabi crop, the apple produce reduced to half of its usual quantity, the unusual rise in temperature...

Ashok Bajare, a potato cultivator from Ambegaon taluka in Pune district has reason to worry. He has a Rs eight lakh investment riding on his potato crop at his 20 acre plot in Bhavadi village....

For the past eight years, standing crops of the three tehsils of Kannad, Gangapur, Vaijapur and some parts of Phulambri in Aurangabad district lay vulnerable, not only to drought and heavy rains, but also to deer herds....

While North India is reeling under heavy rainfall, for the state''s farmers it has brought cheer

Fruit production in Jammu and Kashmir has touched 20 lakh metric tonnes this season an all time high thanks to bumper apple crop.

Twenty-eight villages in Maharashtra, 21 of them in Vidarbha, have worked their way to build, operate and own minor irrigation projects.