New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) India's annual rate of inflation fell marginally to minus 1.58 for the week ending July 25 from minus 1.54 the week before, according to official data rele...More

Lucknow, Aug 6 (IANS) Scanty rainfall in most parts of Uttar Pradesh, where 58 of its 71 districts have been declared drought-hit, will hit agricultural production leading to a sh...More

Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) A key index of the Indian equities markets was ruling in the red Thursday after a weak start and shortly before noon was 81 points lower than its previous clo...More

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Nearly one million bank employees in India, including some with private and foreign banks, began a two-day nationwide strike Thursday demanding higher wage...More

Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) Unions should be constructive partners in the growth of institutions to play a meaningful role in society, according to Nobel laureate and eminent economist ...More

Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) There were no victors in the Singur land acquisition stand-off, Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen has said, urging political parties to sit together and f...More

Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) The West Bengal government Wednesday requested Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee to hand over the excess railway land to the state government for developing ...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday flagged off the the first 'Ladies Special' train here for women commuters from Delhi to Palwal in Haryana and sa...More

Chennai, Aug 5 (IANS) Puducherry Chief Minister V.Vaithilingam Wednesday announced his government would give free of cost a colour television set and one cow to each below poverty...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Jet Airways has sacked two of its senior pilots for joining a newly formed union. Balaraman and Sam Thomas were sacked for joinin...More

Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) Kolkata Dock System of the Kolkata Port Trust has handled a record high monthly volume of container traffic of 34,287 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in July...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Nearly one million people travelled by Delhi Metro Tuesday, the highest for the mass transit system so far, which helped the corporation to earn a whopping...More

Mumbai, Aug 5 (IANS) The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group Wednesday alleged conflict of interest in naming the two experts who evaluated and validated the overstated capital cost of Kr...More

Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) The West Bengal government has acquired 200 acres of contiguous land for the Rajarhat information technology (IT) hub, where software majors like Infosys and...More

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has asked the national airlines to conduct the re-examination of an aspiring pilot whose selection was denied on medical grounds despi...More