Priority is to keep 'alive' oxygen plants during Cyclone Yaas: NDRF DG

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has directed its rescue teams to ensure that the country's major medical oxygen generation plants based in Odisha and West Bengal are 'running and alive'......

'We believe in only one leader and that is Mamata'

'Mamata is synonymous with Bengal, its culture, language, traditions.' IMAGE: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee addresses an election rally at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas. Photograph:......

Suvendu quits Mamata cabinet, BJP says "beginning of the end" for TMC

Suvendu Adhikari, the face of the Nandigram movement that added to the political heft of Mamata Banerjee and catapulted her to power in West Bengal, resigned from her cabinet on Friday, setting off......

Advantage Mamata before Bengal polls

Mamata Banerjee has fulfilled two key electoral promises: Ridding Lalgarh of Naxals and bringing peace to Darjeeling, says Ishita Ayan Dutt. Oh, the power of the word! Mamata Banerjee said, let......

Ganga to get country's first inland waterway

The project would facilitate the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) to put in place infrastructure and navigation services needed to develop the waterway. The Union government and the......

4,000 km of pipelines in 30 months!

BC Tripathi, who helms India's largest natural gas marketer and transporter -- GAIL, discusses last-mile connectivity to homes with Jyoti Mukul and Shine Jacob. IMAGE: A representational......

From an industrial hub to a model village: Nandigram's success story

From an industrial hub as envisaged by the Left regime, Nandigram today is a conglomeration of model villages fenced by its greenery. Image: Nandigram transforms into a model village. Photograph:......

PM for developing 1,100 islands, 300 lighthouses: Gadkari

The move will lead to augmentation of water infrastructure in the country Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown keen interest in developing 1,100 islands and 300 lighthouses across the nation to......