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Protests Hit Retail Ahead of Durga Puja

West Bengal is home to 43,000 Durga Pujas, and the business around it is a major economic driver. IMAGE: People perform a street play during a protest condemning the rape and murder of a trainee......

Confusion over border worsened Partition violence

Exactly 75 years ago, the Radcliffe Line -- a geographical marker that demarcated the boundary between India and newly-created dominion of Pakistan -- was published, cartographically cleaving the......

Trinamool sweeps Kolkata civic polls, decimates Opposition

West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress gained control of the 144-member Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Tuesday clinching nearly 72 per cent of votes, in a ringing endorsement for the party seven......

Kolkata's Durga Puja gets Unesco's heritage tag, Bengal ecstatic

Unesco on Wednesday accorded heritage status to Kolkata's Durga puja festival, bringing glory to the country, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lauding the move.......

Clean Ganga project has a long way to go

'There will always be hiccups given that the Namami Gange programme is spread over different sectors and involves several agencies.' IMAGE: The Ganges in Varanasi. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

Job Quotas In Private Sector?

Rather than a blind reproduction of the government template, a more productive way of enforcing affirmative action in the private sector could be to emulate an American model, suggests Kanika......

Confused about the Budget proposals? Please read this

Extends fiscal deficit reduction roadmap by one year to 2017-18 Raises services tax, to implement GST by April 2016 and cut corporation tax from 2016-17 to 25% by 2020 The Government has presented......

Saradha scam: CBI to quiz Suvaprasanna

Artist Suvaprasanna Bhattacharya, known to be close to the Trinamool Congress leadership, has been summoned by the Central Bureau Investigation for his dealings with Saradha’s Sudipta......

Highlights of the Budget

Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented the 2006-07 Union Budget in Parliament on Tuesday. Presenting the Budget the FM described 2005 as: The best of times and worst of times.He projected the GDP......

The paradox of economic freedom

Which of these statements is correct? Chhattisgarh ranks fourth among states in terms of economic freedom; Punjab is 17th.Punjab is fourth in terms of economic freedom; Chhattisgarh is 19th.Answer:......

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