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Three prominent institutes of higher studies in West Bengal-Jadhavpur University, Calcutta University and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta are reported to be testing the feasibility of collaboration for setting up Meta University-a ...  

Since the 19th century, the Bengali capital, Kolkata, has been known for some of India’s greatest artists, like the filmmaker Satyajit Ray and the writers Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattoapdhyay ... and North India has always ...  

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Indian Premier League (IPL) victory party at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday turned out to be one of the biggest in the recent past. The party was so big that it even dwarfed the Twenty-20 World Cup victory ...  

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is in JV pact with Burn Standard Co for wagon components unit. This JV will set up 10,000 bogies/yr capacity unit in West Bengal and to invest Rs 200 crore in West Bengal wagon unit, reports CNBC-TV18. It touched ...  

Banerjee’s role in Indian democracy, especially when it comes to support for economic decisions, has certainly been divisive. Many have called ... into Bengal if Banerjee eased her stand on issues critical to the US, mainly FDI (foreign ...  

Kolkata, May 25: The West Bengal government has entered into an MoU with the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and the Burn Standard Company Ltd (BSCL) to set up a railway wagon and component factory in East Midnapore's Jellingham, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Friday. - Indiatalkies.com  

Seven members of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) have surrendered with weapons in West Bengal's Jhargram district, police said Wednesday. This follows an appeal from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Jhargram Superintendent of Police...  

Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) West Bengal's left parties Wednesday threatened to hit the ... leader Surya Kanta Mishra told IANS over phone. Communist Party of India state secretary Manju Kumar Majumdar called the petrol price hike the United Progressive Alliance ...  

I ended up going to Kolkata (Calcutta, India) and Darjeeling for my 10-day travel period for my study abroad program. I had hoped to see some of the Himalayan peaks, but it was bad weather so we just shivered in the cold grayness of Darjeeling.  

Calcutta, May 18: The Bengal government scored a small victory today when a division bench of Calcutta High Court stayed an arbitration proceeding initiated by The Chatterjee Group, the private promoter of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL). TCG had taken HPL ...  

Grape growers uproot vines as Indians fail to acquire taste for local terroirs Hambir Gopal Phadtare, founder and owner of Mountain View winery in Nashik region of western India looks out over his land and sees a diminished vineyard. Four of his 10 hectares have been sold to repay bank loans, the French experts have disappeared and there are no lines of lorries full of grapes bought from ...  

India has developed its own missile defence shield which can be put in place at short notice to protect at least two cities, bringing the country at par with an elite group of few nations. The shield,... Related Stories A scarf, Tagore's Gitanjali among Mamata's gifts for Hillary I am in the dark, says Pranab on Presidential nomination Yatra rift ignites full-scale war in Rajasthan BJP India to ...  

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Whatever its intentions in cracking down on abuse of tax havens, India has alienated overseas investors with the timing and communication of its measures when it can ill afford to do so. India's move to target tax evaders through a general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR), along with a plan to retroactively tax the indirect transfer of assets, has spooked investors and added to an ...  

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will walk a diplomatic tightrope next week as it plays host to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the same time as a large Iranian trade delegation visits seeking to circumvent tough U.S. sanctions that have strangled Iran's economy. The energy-hungry South Asian nation has publicly rejected Western sanctions but has privately pushed refiners to cut imports of ...  

India's government has asked energy giant Reliance Industries to pay a $1.25 billion penalty for a fall in gas production from its main oil fields, a company executive said on Friday.