'The pandemic ends only when 70 per cent of the world is vaccinated with two doses.' IMAGE: Indians who don't have Aadhaar cards queue to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in Howrah, January 28, 2022.......
Is the worst of the Covid crisis behind India?As cases dip three weeks after Diwali, the answer is a possible yes, say several experts, attributing the downslide to a large section of the......
Kolkata police have arrested three people including a doctor with "mental health issues" for their alleged involvement in sending a letter to the wife of former West Bengal chief secretary Alapan......
Dharmendra Pradhan was on Wednesday inducted as India's new education minister while Annapurna Devi, Subhas Sarkar and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh will be the new ministers of state for education. Son......
'Mamata has used minorities only as her vote bank.''In her entire election campaign Mamata did not utter a single sentence against the RSS.' IMAGE: A Trinamool Congress leader seeks West Bengal......
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......
By embargoing Bt brinjal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh may have done a greater service to democracy than he intended, says Praful Bidwai. India has done something unusual in defying the......
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Budget for 2009-10 on July 6. Following is the BudgetSpeechof Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee: Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for......
You may never have heard of Chengdu, a city of 4.1 million people in central China. But you will soon. The Chinese government has invested billions of dollars to entice U.S. companies to start......
Speech of P. Chidambaram Minister of Finance PART A Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2005-06. 2. Last year, while presenting the Budget, I had suggested that the vote in......