The country’s sanitation programmes have failed to achieve the desired targets largely due to planning-level weaknesses even as large-scale...

No criminal offence is “ex-facie” made out against Union Minister VK Singh, a Delhi court said while dismissing a criminal complaint seeking lodging...

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Monday made it clear that it will not get into an alliance with any party, including the Congress, and will contest...

A day after Uttar Pradesh government claimed that the family members of Dadri lynching victim, Mohd Ikhlaq, did not want any further probe in the...

With water receding in most parts of the rain-battered city and its suburbs, focus is now on clearing the areas of muck left behind along with the...

Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi stressed that the government is committed to promote gender equality at workplaces, while...

Satyajit Ray’s iconic fictional sleuth Feluda will re-appear on the silver screen towards 2016 end as the maestro’s son Sandip is set to bring...

First a cyclonic circulation, plus western disturbances in south India and now an anti-cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal were playing...

Flyers had a harrowing time at NSC Bose International Airport on Monday morning following a blockade put up by cab drivers at the entry gate in front...

With West Bengal no longer a “Communist” state, why does the Centre not earmark funds to develop religious and spiritual tourism there, a senior TMC...

Three wage labourers have died and one is battling for life after coming in contact with toxic gas at the Calcutta Leather Complex at Bantala in South...

The West Bengal government is going to launch boat ambulances with GPS tracking and other emergency facilities for patients living in remote islands...