In the wake of two back-to-back abductions in Orissa, a complete ban has been imposed on the entry of foreign nationals and tourists into the Maoist-hit Koraput district.

On a day when chief minister Mamata Banerjee assured a three-member delegation of the National Commission for Women (NCW) that all complaints of rape were being impartially investigated by her governm

The Mamata Banerjee government will make few amendments in the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, in its bid to attract new investment in the state.

Biennial elections to 13 seats in the Vidhan Parishad are scheduled to be held later this month and expectedly, it is the Samajwadi Party that has the maximum number of claimants for the upper house.

After the BSP’s debacle in UP, the party’s long-cherished ambitions to spread its roots in neighbouring Bihar’s caste-driven politics have come crashing with 31 BSP district presidents joining the rul

The competition in Bihar’s rival political parties to augment their support base among the state’s Muslims became sharper on Monday with both sides vehemently protesting against the increasing arrests

The Mamata Banerjee government has broken the convention of several years. An officer of the additional chief secretary level had always been appointed as the state home secretary earlier.

In an apparent travesty of justice, Bihar’s ruling JD(U) has forced a contractor to withdraw an FIR he had lodged against a senior minister accusing him of assault and coercion to pay off a part of th

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday praised chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her response to the expectations and aspirations of the people of the state.

The number of households in rural areas in Uttar Pradesh having mobile phones has increased from 2.4 per cent in 2001 to 63.6 per cent in 2011, showing a massive upsurge in telecom penetration.