Claiming that Trinamool Congress would decide the fate of next government at the Centre, party general secretary Mukul Roy on Monday said the Mamata Benerjee-led outfit was all set to emerge as the third largest party after the Lok Sabha elections.
The United Nations and its partners are supporting the governments of India and Nepal in search-and-rescue operations and providing assistance to thousands of people displaced due to landslides triggered by monsoonal rains in the two countries.
British energy firm Cairn Energy on Wednesday said its oil and gas operations in offshore Andhra Pradesh have not been affected by the Tsunami tidal waves caused by a massive earthquake.
The Tata Sponge Iron Ltd has plans to set up a Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billlion) expansion project within the next ten years, including a 1 million tonne steel plant.
Over two dozen Muslims have been elected to the Lok Sabha. This shows that all is not lost for India's Muslims, suggests Mohammad Sajjad.
ULFA and eight other militant outfits of the Northeast had announced the 'ban' on screening Hindi films from November 15 saying they were a tool of 'cultural invasion'.
Contending that the definition of secularism has been distorted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday invoked Jan Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay to say that Muslims should be treated as "your own" rather than seeing them as "items of vote market".
Lagarde had said an Indian could head IMF.
The government has already embarked on strengthening the tax net by sending letters to those who have not filed tax returns.
The baby boy, born to Kolkata-based Shampa Sarkar in an invitro fertilisation procedure, is a rare case as Indian pregnancies of less than 28 weeks are extremely rare.
Financial shares were the top losers.
In a bid to provide reliable data connectivity to the software export companies in the East and North-Eastern India, the Software Technology Park of India will set up two more such parks in West Bengal and one in Manipur.
The management hopes to clinch a deal by year-end, failing which even a shut down of the fortnightly cannot be ruled out, according to a top official, who did not want to be named.
The company has also advised power firms to use trucks to carry coal from remote mines, like the Amrapali open cast pit in eastern Jharkhand state.
According personhood to the Ganga and Yamuna is probably the best way to ensure the protection of natural resources, says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
The CA insitute had asked the SFIO numerous times for details against the auditor, but it has not been furnished till now
Experts claim impact of breather limited as most hybrid vegetable seeds are sold by private companies.
The earlier attempt by the authorities in Dhaka that Islamist militancy had not established a presence in Bangladesh will now have to be given up.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how Indian society and the polity need to be carried along.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, rice exports are pegged at 9.3 million tonnes for the 2013-14 marketing year (October-September), slightly lower than 10 million tonnes in the same period last year.
Mergers to create at most six state banks
The Archaeological Survey of India on Friday declared Taj Mahal and all other monuments under it "safe" after conducting a detailed assessment in the wake of the devastating quake that wrecked Nepal and reverberated through several states in northern and eastern India.
Spread over three acres, the project will house the new office of the Grid Corporation of Odisha Ltd, under the Odisha government's energy department.
As Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar frowned at the Centre, the Bharatiya Janata Party ion Monday took a dig at him, saying he was led up the "garden path" by the Congress on the issue of special status and hinted that this had led to its split with the BJP.
'There was a period when they questioned the flag and there were questions also against the Constitution.' 'That's long past.'
However, it's too soon to see any trend; July rain is key.
Ahmedabad-based firm to fund deal through equal amount of equity and debt.
On his maiden visit to Bihar after assuming power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said politics had hampered the development of the state and promised to give more than Rs 50,000 crore special package to the poll-bound state at the right time.
Left-arm spinner Vijay Gohil registered his best first-class bowling figures to put defending champions Mumbai in firm control against Hyderabad in the quarterfinal of the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament in Raipur on Monday. Gohil picked up five wickets giving away just 28 runs from his 10 overs to reduce Hyderabad to 121 for seven while chasing 232 runs for an outright win at stumps on the fourth and penultimate day of the match. Besides Gohil, Abhishek Nayar (2/27) picked up two wickets for the 41-time winners.
Banking services are likely to be affected for the next four days as employees of PSU banks plan to go on a zone-wise relay strike beginning with Southern region from Tuesday, after wage revision talks failed.
PM has asked the Reserve Bank to prepare a 20-year road map for financial inclusion
'It is the regional parties and their leaders who are the ones we have to watch.'
A Bangladeshi court on Thursday handed down the death penalty to 14 people, including the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami and a top leader of India's separatist outfit United Liberation Front of Asom, in the country's biggest ever weapons haul case, nearly 10 years after the seizure took place.
The prime minister came down heavily on the Congress government in Assam and the previous UPA government at the Centre for "failing" to fulfil dreams and aspiration of the people.
It took the Danish beer maker eight years to move among the top three.
Technology and prudent practices can ensure that crop output does not suffer in years of drought.
'Breaking out of the corner into which China has painted itself would be a feat.' 'Whether Xi is able to pull it off will be known in the coming days,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant and member of the Joint Intelligence Committee at the time of China's invasion of India.
Payments banks are niche banks which will be allowed to function with several restrictions.
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