Union minister of state for health Sudip Bandopadhyay on Monday gave a clean-chit to the Mamata Banerjee government for the death of 17 new-borns at Dr B.C. Roy Memorial Hospital for Children in Kolkata. He also rubbished the reports of negligence into the death of 17 infants at Burdwan Medical College and Hospital in Burdwan.

Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Jarbom Gamlin on Monday submitted his resignation in order to authorise Congress president Sonia Gandhi to take a final decision in resolving the political stalemate in the state.

It is now UP sports minister Ayodhya Prasad Pal who is facing the Lokayukta scanner for corruption charges.

The beginning of Bihar’s four-day religious festival of Chhath brought bad news for the state’s Opposition parties RJD and LJP on Sunday as two of their leaders decided to join the ruling JD(U) in the

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) and the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikash Parishad (ABAVP) on Sunday clinched a deal for inclusion of all mouzas of Terai and Dooars into the jurisdiction of the Gorkhala

Seasoned Indian diplomat Kamalesh Sharma was on Sunday reappointed Secretary-General of the 54-nation Commonwealth grouping for a four-year term beginning April 2012.

The family of Sushil Kumar, the first contestant in Kaun Banega Crorepati to have won `5 crores, has got very little time to themselves to savour the young computer operator’s monetarily massive achi

With one more child dying Thursday, the number of crib deaths at Kolkata’s Dr B.C. Roy Memorial Hospital for Children in the past 48 hours rose to 13. The hospital authorities, however, claimed the deaths of so many babies in such a short span of time was not abnormal.

With its strength of 15 Lok Sabha members, the ruling BJD in Orissa headed by chief minister Naveen Patnaik has succeeded in keeping two of its strong opponents — the Congress and BJP — on tenterhooks.

Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh here on Thursday said that his department has asked the CAG to do performance audit of all the rural development schemes in 11 states including Assam.