A day after 33 trawlers with 550 fishermen went missing in Bay of Bengal following heavy rains, 27 trawlers were traced out after the weather improved on Saturday. The trawlers were traced through radio communication after they had drifted into the waters of Bangladesh, South 24 Parganas district magistrate N.S. Nigam said. Some of the

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday once again made it clear that the state government would not procure land for the private investors. They would have to purchase their land directly from the owners at the market price. In her first interactive session with the industrialists and representatives of the industries as chief minister, she also

The Coastguard on Saturday traced all the 33 trawlers with 550 fishermen onboard, which went missing in the Bay of Bengal since Thursday night following heavy rains.

However, Sundarbans Fishermen Ass

As many as 550 fishermen in 33 trawlers went missing in the Bay of Bengal on Friday in rough weather due to heavy rains triggered by a depression, prompting a search by a Coastguard ship and a Dornier

The West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday passed the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Bill 2011 by voice vote after the Opposition Left Front had walked out of the House. This will pave the way for the return of land to Singur’s unwilling farmers of Singur. The House electronic clock read 3:14:20 when Speaker Biman Banerjee announced the bill had been passed.

Describing the crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s hunger strike in New Delhi as the Congress party’s “fascism”, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday called the ruling party

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will address a gathering of captains of industry and chambers of commerce here on Saturday to outline her blueprint for the state’s industrialisation.

The Congress on Sunday launched a campaign to counter the anti-graft movement by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev and accused a section of civil society of trying to weaken democratic institutions.

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Indian industrialists as well as NRIs are keen on pumping in investments in West Bengal for its industrial development, state commerce and industries minister Partha Chatterjee said on Saturday.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s ordinance faux pas may have given the beleagured Opposition CPI(M) a stick to beat the fledgling Trinamul Congress government with, but the Congress-led U