Children most vulnerable in Orissa, West Bengal: Study
Jun 17, 2011
Nearly two-thirds of the 100 districts in the country where children are most vulnerable to poverty, lack of parental care, social unrest and HIV/AIDS are in Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand, ... Read More
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Bihar rights panel helps NRI abused by IPS
Jun 17, 2011
The Bihar Human Rights Commission (BHRC) has rejected a police report filed in a case of alleged abuse of an NRI who overtook the vehicle of an Indian Police Service (IPS) probationer, a commission of... Read More
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1,000 train passengers escape disaster in Assam
Jun 17, 2011
About 1,000 passengers of a long-distance train had a miraculous escape here when a powerful bomb was found on board early Friday. The explosive was soon defused by bomb experts.... Read More
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Maoists strike Bihar railway station
Jun 16, 2011
Maoists Thursday set ablaze a portion of a railway station and blew up four mobile phone towers during a 24-hour shut down called by them to protest the arrest of one of their top leaders in Bihar, po... Read More
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Buy land directly from farmers, says West Bengal's draft policy
Jun 15, 2011
Industrialists planning to invest in West Bengal would have to buy all the land they require from land owners and the government would provide homes to each family rendered homeless due to industrial... Read More
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Pranab may become PM, but never Congress president: Gadkari
Jun 15, 2011
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Wednesday said Congress stalwart Pranab Mukherjee may fulfil his wish of becoming the country’s prime minister but he can never be the Congr... Read More
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Gadkari attacks Sonia, Congress returns fire
Jun 15, 2011
India's top two political parties were locked in a war of words Wednesday after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari questioned Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's democratic credentials and... Read More
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Mamata orders probe into Congress workers' 1970 killing
Jun 14, 2011
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday ordered judicial inquiry into the Sainbari case, in which four Congress loyalists were killed 41 years back allegedly by Communist Party of India-Mar... Read More
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West Bengal passes Singur bill, Mamata calls it historic
Jun 14, 2011
Amidst walkout by the opposition Left Front lawmakers, the West Bengal assembly Tuesday passed a bill to return a portion of the land acquired by the previous government from "unwilling owners" for se... Read More
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Woman, locked up by mother for 7 years, rescued
Jun 14, 2011
A young woman, who had been kept locked up in a room for almost seven years by her mother, was rescued in the Bihar capital in a state of depression and malnutrition, police said Tuesday.
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