The incident, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said, has put the country's democratic history to "shame".
Four members of the Bengal Table Tennis girls team were physically assaulted at a guest house in Pondicherry.
Transcript of the market chat held on December 5.
It may stifle the development of private schools and add to the bureaucracy
India's energy needs are expected to jump four-fold in 25 years, but it faced problems ranging from depleting fuel reserves and uncertainty in policy framework, consulting firm KPMG said on Monday.
The BJP locked in an intense rivalry with the TMC since general election vented ire against the state government over the episode, whereas the ruling party directed its criticism at the Governor for rushing to the University which it said is expected to provide justice to the university's vice-chancellor, professors, students, who were beaten up during and the after the minister's visit there.
Action against auditors, last of the 276 recommendations of a JPC probing Ketan Parekh scam, is still pending.
Government schools in West Bengal will not make any arrangement for students to watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi's live address on Teachers Day and many private schools too may skip the programme.
The three were transferred for their trial in the shoe baron Partha Pratim Roy Burman abduction case, Inspector General (Prisons) Joydeb Chakraborty said.
Global research firm Gartner Inc expects an increase in travel to and from India, mirroring the growth trajectory of the country's information technology and business process outsourcing segments.
As part of its expansion plans, Barista Coffee Company on Thursday launched Barista Creme, an exclusive sub brand of premium cafes, costing Rs 50 lakh.
There has been a significant increase of 50 per cent in global wealth between 1990 and 2010, but it rose by only an "anaemic" 6 per cent during this period if measured in terms of sustainable development.
Bankers of HPL too have endorsed the idea and are pitching hard for the chairmanship of Chatterjee.
Eleven people including a former TMC leader were awarded death sentence by Nadia district court on Thursday for killing a woman to grab government land about 14 months ago.
Gartner India Research and Advisory Services Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Gartner Inc, is talking with five state governments to provide IT consultancy services and advices for the states' Citizen to Government Initiatives.
'... That they should emerge as role-models to be emulated by the fellow countrymen; and that the middle classes should not stick only to hate-filled and scornful criticism and condemnation against the state of affairs,' remembers Mohammad Sajjad.
Stunned by the sudden saffron surge, daggers seems to have been drawn in the Trinamool Congress camp with local leaders blaming those holding top party posts for their "lack of foresightedness" and "arrogant approach" as primary reasons behind the poor poll show.
He attacked the dispensation over issues such as the state of the economy, the situation in Kashmir, the National Register of Citizens in Assam and action by probe agencies against opposition leaders.
West Bengal government has 1.2 per cent stake in BAPL.
Trinamool Congress on Saturday removed Mukul Roy, a former confidante of Mamata Banerjee, from the key post of party general secretary.
On Wednesday, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan said that while driving from the airport through Rajarhat, he came across beautiful buildings but it looked like a countryside under development with no signs of industrialisation.
HRD Minister Javadekar responding to criticism of politicising the event said the UGC communication reflected "patriotism not politics", and it is not compulsory for the academic institutions to organise any such event.
Roy, on his part, said the decision to name him in the first information report was 'politically motivated'.
The resolution said the state will be called Bangla in three languages -- Bengali, English and Hindi.
The violence fanned out to Asansol areas, prompting police to suspend Internet services and clamp prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC in the trouble-torn areas of the district.
However, no fresh incident of violence was reported from the area since Wednesday night, the police said adding that the situation was 'under control'.
Did you know that 17% seats are reserved for girl students in every branch of engineering?
The West Bengal State Election Commission on Sunday postponed counting of votes in the election to Bidhannagar and Asansol municipal corporations following allegations of large-scale violence, even as opposition parties demanded fresh elections.
The Kathmandu-based International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development has launched a project to set up a hi-tech flood early warning system in the flood prone districts of Eastern Assam's Dhemaji and Lakhimpur.
The Congress failed to win even a single seat in the polls.
IIT Kharagpur set to be a one-stop-shop for all your parents' 'doctor-engineer' dreams! :-)
If the government seriously keeps out of business, the business world will know about it at a lightning speed; there would be no need for rock show-like events.
Under the Shri Gopal Rajgarhia International Programme which was launched on Wednesday, at least 10 professors from some of the world's leading universities would come to the Kharagpur campus each year for few months.
The list, which is a mix of seasoned political players and greenhorns, has 17 women candidates, five more than the last elections, constituting roughly 41 per cent of the candidates.
India to be 2nd largest IT market in APAC by 2019: Gartner
The child after returning home on Thursday from her school - G D Birla Centre for Education - kept on crying and complained of severe pain. Her mother spotted blood stains on her clothes, he said. The girl told her mother that the physical training teacher had taken her to the washroom but could not narrate what happened thereafter.
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