India on Friday signalled there was no change in its position on Ukraine, again abstaining from a vote on a US-initiated resolution in the UN Security Council against Russia for the “referendum&...

It was never going to take long for condemnations of Russia's freshly announced annexation of four Ukrainian territories to come rolling in on Friday. Ukraine's closest backers had already mad...

The formula-driven domestically produced natural gas prices were hiked by a steep 40 per cent to record levels of $8.57 per million British thermal units for six months from October, as global prices ...

Over 3,700 people, mostly children, living in areas prone to human-animal conflict have got new clothes ahead of the festive season. The areas are in the Sunderbans, Bankura, Paschim Medinipur, Howra...

The stridently pro-Kremlin editor of Russia’s state-run RT news channel expressed anger on Saturday that enlistment officers were sending call-up papers to the wrong men, as frustration about a ...

A day after President Vladimir V. Putin announced a call-up that could see 300,000 civilians swept into military service, thousands of Russians across the country had reportedly received draft papers ...

The West Bengal Forest department will employ local youths as 'Gajamitras' (friends of elephants) in pockets of south Bengal where depredation by wild elephants is causing serious problems for...

A Russian missile exploded near the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant just after midnight on Monday and forced a shutdown at a hydroelectric station, Ukrainian officials said, in the latest attack by ...

Animals that do not hog the limelight have had their habitat and distribution documented for the first time in West Bengal. A study, commissioned by the state forest department and don...

India’s top oil and gas producer Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) wants the government to scrap the windfall profit tax levied on domestically produced crude oil and instead use the divide...