West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday won a major legal battle against Tata Motors when the Calcutta high court ruled that her government was well within its rights to re-acquire nearly 1,000 acres of land in Singur that the previous state government had allotted to the automobile major for its now defunct Nano plant.

Mamata Banerjee could not have asked for better Puja gifts. Wednesday brought “three cheers” for the chief minister of West Bengal. She not only won Bhowanipore Assembly seat by a record margin (78 per cent) and snatched Basirhat North Assembly seat from the Left Front, but also received a most favourable Singur ruling from Calcutta high court.

The Calcutta high court on Wednesday upheld as valid the Singur act passed by the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal scrapping the land lease given to Tata Motors in the area.

Bihar’s much-hyped “bicycle revolution” in girls’ education and empowerment is going to be celebrated in a song being planned by the state’s education department that believes the song will add a furt

Flood situation in Orissa continued to remain grim on Sunday, even as the death toll rose to 17.

The byelections to the two Assembly seats — the high-profile Bhowanipore seat where incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting against CPI(M) candidate Nandini Mukherjee and Basirhat North

Perhaps no other Assembly bypoll has ever generated so much interest and excitement as the Bhawanipore bypoll being held on Sunday where chief minister Mamata Banerjee is in the fray. Although her victory is a foregone conclusion, still the people are keenly watching the contest to see if she

BJP spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy here on Thursday alleged that Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi had overlooked the state’s interests while agreeing on the land swap deal with Bangladesh.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Thursday reprimanded local media for advising him to take a lesson from Gujarat and Bihar chief ministers to bring in development to the state. Mr Gogoi told reporters, “Why should I look towards Modi and Nitish Kumar. My state has progressed better than Gujarat and Bihar.”

Twelve stranded foreigners were rescued from the North district as relief teams battled hard to reach remote quake-hit areas with landslides blocking roads as the toll in Sunday’s powerful temblor rose to 117, including 74 in the Himalayan state.