West Bengal Elections BJP vs TMC: Political campaigns in West Bengal are creatively using fish and meat, staples of Bengali culture, to con...

West Bengal is heading into a high-stakes Assembly election scheduled in two phases on April 23 and April 29 across all 294 seats, with cou...

West Bengal's economy is set for robust growth. Projections indicate a 7.62 percent expansion in the 2025-26 financial year. The state's Gr...

The Economic Review for 2024-25 reveals that West Bengal has experienced significant economic growth over the last 13 years, largely due to...

In the midst of financial turmoil, the West Bengal Governor faces allegations of sexual assault, further complicating the state's already d...

Five states, namely, Bihar, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, and West Bengal, figure among the most stressed states fiscally, as per a Reserve Ba...

A similar scheme could be envisaged for states that are borrowing more, with a scale down in the permissible borrowing or the higher advanc...

In a letter to Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman, Mitra also sought that the compensation period be extended by five years beyond July 2022, whic...

In a report, it also said it found a “significant gap" between its estimates and revised estimates provided by West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, ...

The consolidated fiscal deficit of the Centre and states is thus likely to be around 12.7 per cent of GDP, assuming that the Centre’s fisca...

According to the data, West Bengal was ahead of the national rate in services and agriculture sectors also, Mitra, a former secretary gener...

West Bengal has seen doubling of its outstanding liability in excess of Rs 3 lakh crore in the course of last five years.

Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh come in the second place, but far behind Maharashtra, with a GSDP of Rs 9.67 trillion each, according to the r...

In 2013-14, West Bengal's debt as a proportion of gross state domestic product (GSDP) was estimated at 34.6%, the highest among the non-spe...

Among all the states and union territories, Sikkim recorded highest GSDP growth rate of 31.6 per cent during the five year period followed ...

States benefitted from a higher share in central transfers in accordance with the 13th Finance Commission recommendations. But their tax re...

The northeastern state of Arunchal Pradesh clocked the highest economic growth rate in the country of 22.43 percent in 2009-10, followed by...