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Mamata assigns portfolios to council of ministers

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday allocated portfolios to her newly sworn-in council of ministers, keeping to herself nine departments, including Home, Land and Land Reforms. Her......

Communal violence bill may be introduced in Budget session

A bill allowing the Centre to declare an area in a state as communally disturbed on its own and send central forces without the state's request, is likely to be introduced in the ongoing session of......

Mamata's reshuffles ministry, inducts 8 new faces

Reshuffling her 18-month-old ministry in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday inducted eight new faces, mostly from rural Bengal, with an eye on the coming panchayat elections......

Sedition law should be scrapped, says Katju

Chairman of the Press Council of India, Justice Markandey Katju, on Friday said that he was personally in favour of scrapping the sedition law. He also alleged that those who had slapped sedition......

People's voice: Scrap Jaitapur and Koodankulam

Three important developments in the nuclear sector have put the department of atomic energy and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India on the back foot, says Praful Bidwai If the Manmohan Singh......

GST: Centre turns down alternative model

The Centre on Wednesday refused to accept the alternative model of Goods and Services Tax, mooted by state GST panel head Asim Dasgupta and a couple of BJP-ruled states."We have regretted our......

'Bio resources:India wants legally binding treaty'

India plans to play a larger role in protection of forests and biodiversity, especially in the 10th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to be held in Nagoya, Japan, in......

ISB among 201 institutes running sans approval:HRD

Over 200 institutions, including the Indian School of Business and ICFAI Business School, have been identified as unapproved institutions which are running courses in violation of regulations of......

The paradox of hunger amidst potential plenty

Grain stocks in the current procurement season will be enough to feed all those who go hungry, and the FCI only needs to invest in proper storage facilities, says N Chandra Mohan.A truly landmark......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......

  People speak for west bengal legislative council

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Q. Tell me about Sir Rasbeehari Ghosh.
:  A. Rashbehari Ghosh was a lawyer by profession, who is also famous for his philanthropic. He was born in 1845, in the Khandaghosh village of Burdwan...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/tell-me-about-sir-rasbeehari-ghosh.//answers/13084171

Q. in which country homeopathy originate?
:  A. Homoeopathy came to India as early as 1810 when a French traveler, Dr. John Martin Honigberger who learnt Homoeopathy from Dr. Samuel Hahnemann...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/in-which-country-homeopathy-originate/13084064/answers/4972002

  Web results for West Bengal Legislative Council
"US-India share similar manufacturing goals"

Kolkata, May 21 (IBNS): U.S. Ambassador to on Tuesday said the United States and India share similar goals to encourage domestic manufacturing and... ...

http://www.indiablooms.com/BusinessDetailsPage/2013/businessDetails210513i.php
BJP appoints Amit Shah in charge of Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's close confidant and BJP General Secretary Amit Shah was Sunday appointed in charge of politically... ...

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For team Rahul, it's good politics that will yield rich dividends for poor Indians

The Rahul-led Congress is rearing to go, not with any coloured ideological weaponry but with a brigade of new faces, which will reflect the united... ...

http://newindianexpress.com/prabhu_chawla/columns/For-team-Rahul-it’s-good-politics-that-will-yield-rich-dividends-for-poor-Indians/2013/05/19/article1595958.ece
Trinamool Congress at crossroads as people see red

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee assumed the office of the West Bengal chief minister on May 20, 2011. Banerjee and her... ...

http://www.sify.com/news/trinamool-congress-at-crossroads-as-people-see-red-news-columns-nftakTiihcj.html
State leaders resent central patronage and prefer partnership model

Business India News: In the sub-text of the new episodes is the changing texture of India's federal fabric. State leaders resent central patronage... ...

http://www.keralanext.com/news/2013/05/18/article103.asp

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