A 5.6-magnitude earthquake on Sunday left one person injured in Assam's Kokrajhar district. The temblor also hit north Bengal but there was no report of any injury or damage to property.

CHENNAI: In a move that would help change the skyline of coastal cities like Chennai, Vishakhapatnam, Surat, Mangaluru and Puducherry, the Union Environment Ministry has amended the coastal regulat

Karnataka Minister for Rural Development H K Patil presents a Gandhi statue to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawa

KOLKATA: A fish hospital — the first of its kind in the country — will become operational in Kolkata in two-three months.

BURDWAN: Even as the state government has started a crackdown on illegal sand mining along Damodar, three Trinamool Congress supporters were killed in alleged intra-party clashes in Burdwan's Wari

The Centre has asked nine state governments to expeditiously implement the Forest Rights Act, which recognizes the rights of scheduled tribes living in the forests for generations.

AHMEDABAD: Among 20 major states in the country, Gujarat's performance on power front seems to be the best as it has been able to achieve 0% normal power deficit and nil peak power deficit in 2013-

Nearly 78 per cent of the West Bengal's population were dependent on the government's healthcare delivery system, state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said on Tuesday.