The new board of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to address the concerns of the stall owners of Lansdowne market on Sarat Bose Road in south Kolkata before reviving a makeover proj...

Let them grow Sir — In spite of an abundance of books on parenting, there is no proverbial rulebook on how to raise a child. So parents, overwhelmed with the dos and don’ts, are often ove...

The Bengal education department is exploring for the first time the possibility of a public-private partnership (PPP) in school education.  “The school education department has prepared a ...

Countering West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegation about Centre having “inordinately delayed” the Rs 15,000-crore Tajpur deep sea port project, Union minister Nitin G...

The Centre also approved a proposal to give a one-time relaxation in the working capital limit for discoms as part of  the Rs 90,000cr liquidity infusion scheme. At the press meet, Javadekar sai...

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal for leasing out airports at Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram through public-private partnership (PPP). Adani Enterprises had won the rights...

Bengal Chamber of Commerce — the country’s oldest representative body for business interests — is staring down the barrel of a tax gun. The 187-year-old chamber, which is housed at ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked Venkata Krishna Reddy Gunupati, the chairman of the GVK group of companies, and his son G. V. Sanjay Reddy, the managing director of Mumbai Interna...

The Meghalaya government has started the process to implement Smart City projects worth Rs 160 crore. Shillong city has been selected along with 99 cities across the country under the Centre’s Smart...

It’s been a few years but I clearly remember a visit to a chest ward in a hospital in Patna. Tuberculosis patients, their faces emaciated, lay on their beds, staring, coughing, in despair. These imp...