Huge uproar erupts over Jadavpur University student death

A raging battle broke out between activists of an ultra-left organisation with Bharatiya Janata Party's Yuva Morcha members on Thursday as the saffron party leader Suvendu Adhikari's convoy came up......

CBI arrests TMC MLA in school jobs scam

Trinamool Congress MLA Jiban Krishna Saha was arrested on Monday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from his residence in West Bengal's Murshidabad district in connection with its......

Mulayam, Ustad Zakir Hussain, SM Krishna get Padma Vibhushan

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, former external affairs minister in the UPA government S M Krishna and tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain were among six luminaries selected......

Will Partha's arrest in SSC scam impact Mamata?

After the Trinamool’s overwhelming majority in the West Bengal assembly elections last year, the SSC scam has given fresh ammunition to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......

Will India get the $1-billion university?

Indian mining magnate Anil Agarwal is having a tough time giving away a billion dollars. He's pledged $1 billion to start a university along the shores of the Bay of Bengal in eastern India's......

Innovation from India: The next big wave

A new portable electrocardiogram machine, the MAC 400, can take 100 EKGs on a single battery charge and weighs less than three pounds. This is appropriate for rural areas in emerging markets where......

People keys to India's development: Kalam

President Dr A P J Abdul Kalamstressed on the need for people's active participation in transforming India into a developed nation by 2020. Laying the foundation of P C Ray super-speciality......