Modi to flag off world's longest Varanasi-Dibrugarh river cruise on Friday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the world's longest river cruise, MV Ganga Vilas, and inaugurate a 'Tent City' on the banks of the Ganga river in Varanasi on January 13 via video......

Priority is to keep 'alive' oxygen plants during Cyclone Yaas: NDRF DG

The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has directed its rescue teams to ensure that the country's major medical oxygen generation plants based in Odisha and West Bengal are 'running and alive'......

'We believe in only one leader and that is Mamata'

'Mamata is synonymous with Bengal, its culture, language, traditions.' IMAGE: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee addresses an election rally at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas. Photograph:......

Suvendu quits Mamata cabinet, BJP says "beginning of the end" for TMC

Suvendu Adhikari, the face of the Nandigram movement that added to the political heft of Mamata Banerjee and catapulted her to power in West Bengal, resigned from her cabinet on Friday, setting off......

How Gadkari plans to change the way you travel

'Do not want to stop production of petrol, diesel cars.' ‘Environment-friendly and cost-effective indigenous production is our philosophy.’ Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari,......

Ganga to get country's first inland waterway

The project would facilitate the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) to put in place infrastructure and navigation services needed to develop the waterway. The Union government and the......

4,000 km of pipelines in 30 months!

BC Tripathi, who helms India's largest natural gas marketer and transporter -- GAIL, discusses last-mile connectivity to homes with Jyoti Mukul and Shine Jacob. IMAGE: A representational......

From an industrial hub to a model village: Nandigram's success story

From an industrial hub as envisaged by the Left regime, Nandigram today is a conglomeration of model villages fenced by its greenery. Image: Nandigram transforms into a model village. Photograph:......