West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asserted that she did not threaten junior doctors at state-run hospitals, who have been continuing cease-work for 21 days now to protest......
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar met in Bhubaneswar for more than an hour on Tuesday but later claimed that there was no discussion on politics or any......
Within hours of assuming office, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday initiated a major reshuffle in the police hierarchy, transferring 29 top-level police officers,......
In a first in the country, campaigning for nine Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal going to polls in the last phase came to an end at 10 pm on Thursday, 20 hours before the scheduled time, as per......
The economy may grow by around 7 per cent this financial year as estimated by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), say economists with various organisations.......
Slight recovery in growth is expected only in July-September.Indivjal Dhasmana reports. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com India's economy gave mixed signals in 2018 with growth remaining......
Bank deposits may touch Rs 17 lakh crore by December 30 The theory that all banned notes will come back into the system may not be true.Anup Roy/Business Standard finds out. With the government......
Two out of 12 experts polled say central bank will cut rate to cushion note ban blow; others say Fed rate hike might make it push the pause button, reports Business Standard's Anup Roy. The......
Lying in bed listening to his stereo in his dorm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, US, Amar G. Bose fretted about how bad his new stereo sounded. This provoked him to turn......