Work begins in 11 districts, distribution from Jan 7.

The government has taken this initiative following a directive from the Union Home Ministry.

Two separate processions were taken out to mark five months of the incident.

Hearing a petition filed by the company, Justice Sanjib Banerjee directed that the state government should be added as a party in the case.

The girl''s family can choose to use the amount either for her further education or in her marriage.

The body was lying on an under-repair stretch of the NH 34, which is closed for heavy vehicles.

The SFIO, now, would investigate into the affairs of firm as per the court''s order, said a counsel of the SEBI.

Tower Infotec had collected money from public without taking permission from concerned authorities.

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

The petition alleged that one Kazi Nasiruddin was arrested in connection with a murder case on November 3 by Kultali police station officials.

The project was caught in a controversy over acquisition of land as well as acquisition of coal block.

As Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung prepares to take oath as GTA chief executive at Raj Bhawan Thursday, the state government is keeping its promise of releasing jailed outfit members.

Altogether16,000 km of village roads would be developed through the launch of one kilometre all-weather roads in all of 3,349 gram panchayats in West Bengal from January 7.

Government is likely to send this week a Presidential reference to the Supreme Court for conducting a probe into the allegation of sexual harassment against Justice (retd) A K Ganguly after the Attorney General has endorsed it.

The police have already arrested seven persons in connection with the gangrape.

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.

India witnessed a peak power shortage of 9% during the five years ending 2012 when over 50,000 MW new generation capacity was created, Economic Survey said today.

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.

Reason for wide band is wide amount of uncertainty that prevails in both the Indian economy as well as the external world

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

Doing away with subsidies, correcting policy imperfections

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While the state agriculture department introduced oil palm cultivation in 2001, Mamit rather woke up a little late.

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Farmers told crop will be procured at the MSP from only those who register in advance