Topic: West Bengal

Push for service tax set to raise rail fares

Rail fares are set to go up with the finance ministry considering a service tax on AC class travel if the railway ministry doesn't heed its...
KOLKATA: The Railways have decided to hold periodic meetings to monitor progress of railway projects in the state to ensure their timely...
KOLKATA: Clashes between the two ruling parties in West Bengal---Trinamool Congress and Congress continued on Friday and the state Congress chief...

More babies die at Indian hospital

Dozens of babies have died in the past two weeks at a hospital in India's West Bengal state.. . The latest deaths in the district of Malda come...

Mamata five years younger than official records

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is younger than her official age. . How! The devil lay in a fake certificate, procured by her father...

Twelve states raise Rs 10,961 crore from debt market

KOLKATA: Twelve state governments including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have raised Rs 10,961 crore by selling State Development Loans...

Death toll from India toxic liquor rises to 170

The death toll from a mass poisoning in eastern India caused by toxic home-brewed alcohol climbed to 170 Friday, as police made more arrests and destroyed dozens of illegal distilleries."We now have 170 confirmed dead," Shyamapada Basak, health services director of ...

Toxic liquor kills 143 in eastern India

A batch of home-brewed liquor thought to have been laced with the highly toxic chemical methanol has killed 143 people in eastern India, an official told AFP on Thursday.Hospitals near the impoverished district 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of West Bengal ...

Photos of the Day, May 13, 2011

Photos of the Day selected by the Photo Editors of the National Post. . View yesterday's gallery. ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/Getty Images. Participants in...

What is Microfinance: A View from the Field

They were village women in braids, highland hats and tiny pumps. Some even had babies slung to their backs. But they all made their way about the...