India’s first bullet train could be a Calcutta-Delhi service, covering 1,500km in six hours to make Rajdhani and Duronto look like the laggard locomotives of old.

KOLKATA, 7 SEPT: The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act is in no way a colourable legislation, Mr Kalyan Bandopadhaya, appearing for the WBIDC, submitted before Mr Justice IP Mukerji o

BANKURA, 7 SEPT: The state Public Health Engineering department today entered into an agreement of sharing 50 per cent of river water with a private steel unit in drought-prone Bankura.

People of nearly 60 villages under three blocks of Bolpur sub-division have been drinking contaminated water due to sheer callousness of the panchayat and zilla parishad (ZP) authorities.

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KOLKATA, 5 SEPT: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will urge the Defence minister Mr AK Antony not to raise any objection over Hooghly river beautification project, mayor Mr Sovan Chatterjee

Kolkata: Their basic difference on “forcible land acquisition” remains, but Mamata Banerjee and Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh have reached a truce on the draft land bill that will

Didi dam bursts on Delhi- Mamata says won’t go to Dhaka; finger at Centre’s attitude on Teesta; last-ditch salvage attempt on

DURGAPUR, 4 SEPT: The ice at the country’s first proposed Aerotropolis project in Andal near here has started melting, finally.