Driven by market dynamics, steel prices in the country have risen but are still competitive compared to prices of the metal in the international markets, an official said on Friday. Steel makers in t...

The Congress has announced a 15-day “Jan Jagran Abhiyan” from November 14 on price rise, the first of a series of mass contact programmes it is planning that will highlight people’s ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit out against the BJP-led government at the Centre today and said "Acche Din" (good days) promised by it did not mean skyrocketing prices of esse...

The survey cites individual examples. Gita Singh, 50, from Bagmari village in Salbani block, West Midnapore, had taken the Ujjwala Yojana connection in November 2019 but stopped using LPG in January 2...

The Bengal government is working on a package for private bus operators to switch from diesel to CNG.   This move is part of the state’s initiative to stand by the bus operators who a...

The Narendra Modi government has finally buckled under pressure from consumers, voters and the Opposition and slashed excise duties on petrol by Rs 5 a litre and on diesel by Rs 10 a litre. From Thur...

Buckling under pressure, the government on Wednesday cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by a record Rs 5 and Rs 10 per litre to help bring down rates down from their highest-ever levels. The excise...

The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Sunday launched an agitation against rising prices of fuel and other essential commodities and submitted a memorandum addressed to the President to the governor. H...

About the worst thing that can happen to a smoker is smoking itself. The next would be to have a cigarette (or bidi, or cigar, or cigarillo, or pipe) and have no way to light it. In the early days of ...

Several routes in Kolkata witnessed a nearly 40 per cent drop in the fleet strength of private buses and minibuses since Thursday morning following the rise in the diesel price beyond Rs 100 per litre...