Around 40 million people in India are infected with Hepatitis B and the risk of its transmission is hundred times more than that of the dreaded HIV, a gastroenterologist said here on Tuesday.

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Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced that the state government will start an award in the name of Mahanayak Uttam Kumar from 2012.

Putting the earlier Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government in the dock, the CPI(M) state committee, in the line of its central committee, finally acknowledged that the Left Front government’s pro-working

Seven-year-old Barun Khandelwal did not panic when his left hand was severed from the elbow after it got trapped in a lift.

Rather, he coolly went to a hospital near his house here holding the mutila

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Wednesday presented the Serar Sera Bengali (the best among the great Bengalis) award.

Banerjee was selected for the award for her unwavering long str

Admitting that , CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Saturday asked party workers to change and reorganise themselves in the coming years.

"Self-complacency and loss of mass contact are found

The long-standing impasse in the Darjeeling Hills is heading towards a resolution on Monday when the Centre, the West Bengal government and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) will sign a tripartite agreement for the

Asserting that the Mumbai serial blasts have strengthened India's resolve to root out subversive activities, union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said the terrorists would be mistaken i

The Trinamool Congress, the second largest partner in the Congress led-United Progressive Alliance government, is happy with the Cabinet reshuffle as the party has managed to retain the railways ministry.

Taking a dig at the Congress-led UPA government, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani said that never had there been a government in the Centre functioning like the way it was doing at present, insinuating at the corruption scams penetrating into the government.