Embarking on a damage control exercise, the Mamata Banerjee government on Thursday relented and allowed the state libraries and state government-aided libraries to stock five more newspapers.

Undeterred by the wide-spread criticism over the circular directing government libraries to offer only a few selected government-friendly newspapers to their readers, the Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday stuck to its decision.

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had complained that she was not informed before the hike in the freight rates by the then railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, otherwise she would have not allowed it. Ms Banerjee’s hand-picked Mukul Roy, who has succeeded Mr Trivedi as the railway minister, however, has no plans to roll back the increased freight rates.

In a strongly worded, partly sarcastic letter, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has once again reminded Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal of the wholesome suitability of Motihari as the site for the pro

In a shocking act of violence, abductors in north Bihar have killed a five-year-old girl and thrown her severely mutilated body on a road near her house, spreading a wave of fear and anger against the

Terming the South China Sea as a disputed region, China has warned India to refrain from undertaking oil exploration in the resource-rich Vietnamese blocks in order to ensure “peace and stability” in

The Mamata Banerjee government during its first 10 months in the office has made West Bengal a more debt-stressed state.

A day after the criminal investigation department (CID) claimed that former CPI(M) MP Lakshman Seth had confessed that he had prior knowledge of the 2007 Nandigram attack, the CID on Sunday started re

Sabyasachi Panda, Orissa’s top Maoist leader who engineered the abduction of the two Italian nationals — Basusco Paolo and Claudio Colangelo — refuses to have committed any mistake.

Claudio Colangelo might not have imagined in his wildest dream that his maiden trip to the tribal hinterlands in Orissa would end up in a nightmarish experience.