Highly inaccurate exit polls predicting a sweeping election victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party have led to dramatic public ap...

The Nobel laureate's father Asutosh Sen had taken 125 decimals of land on lease from the varsity in 1943, its spokesperson Mahua Banerjee s...

Are Pew’s findings credible? The survey shows all groups are overwhelmingly opposed to inter-faith marriages and religious conversions. Peo...

General and standalone health insurance companies have also been asked to mitigate the hardships of the affected insured population by ensu...

The majority of the rural respondent households suggested prioritising doctors and nurses for administering the COVID-19 vaccine, followed ...

Furthermore, insurers have also been asked to advise customers to use online modes for intimating claims.

If a statistical fog renders data dubious, we can't identify what’s going right or wrong, or fix failures.

If Indian women had the same work participation rates as men, Oxfam estimates the GDP would rise by 43%.

The survey, conducted by rural media platform Gaon Connection, noted that the next generation in 48 per cent farming families does not want...

New Delhi has tied up with Dhaka to dredge two river stretches. It has committed 80 per cent of the total amount required for these two str...

Critics have long pilloried the shortcomings of the Doing Business report. Yet it has become popular, warts and all, because it captures at...

Government has launched a survey in five states, for identification of movable and immovable assets once held by people who migrated to Pak...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday busted an alleged fraudulent insurance claims racket here in West Bengal.

The government and party failed to convince the people that there were either no scams, or we were taking actions against the culprits.

Thousands of rural folk come and work in boom towns, where homes are being constructed, but they go back to their villages during elections.

Steel plants in West Bengal are blatantly "flouting environmental norms" by polluting land, water and air, according to a green rating surv...

The world's largest delta, Ganga-Bhagirathi, is slowly disappearing into the sea, finds a study by river expert Kalyan Rudra.