Kolkata, With only a few days to go before the state budget, it would be interesting to watch how state financial advisor Amit Mitra put brakes on the growing fiscal deficit in the state.

Experts are of the opinion that the state financial condition was showing signs of recovery despite the outstanding liabilities but

Hyderabad, Despite the dent in revenues during the last two years due to Covid pandemic and lack of help from the Centre, Telangana financially appears to be on a firm footing.

With a higher growth rate and per capita income than many bigger states, India's youngest state has become the fourth largest contributor t

Mumbai, As the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government readies for its third annual Budget (2022-2023) in early March, the focus is again on the state of the state's finances.

The state has been grappling - ranking among the worst-hit - with the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and the series of lockdowns that have pla

Chennai, The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), a political party that is part of the DMK alliance, has come out against the HR&CE department of the state government conducting night long Shivaratri festival at Kapaleeswar temple.

VCK senior leader Vanniya Arasu in a statement on Friday night said it was da

Lucknow, Customs officials at Lucknow Airport on Friday arrested five persons for smuggling gold worth Rs 1.31 crore.

A customs official said that the arrested included three passengers who had flown in from Dubai.

"On specific information, the customs team intercepted three persons and searche

New Delhi, Six persons, including four prisoners and an Assistant Superintendent and a warden of Tihar Jail, suffered injuries in a scuffle between jail officials and some prisoners on Friday, officials said.

"A scuffle took place between the Tihar Jail officials and undertrial inmates inside Jail no four. As

Bhubaneswar,  Senior Congress leader and former Odisha Chief Minister, Hemananda Biswal passed away here at a private hospital on Friday, his daughter Sunita said. He was 82.

Biswal served as Chief Minister of Odisha twice - from December 7, 1989 to March 3, 1990, and from December 6, 1999 to March 5, 2000. T

Guwahati, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Friday that Lachit Barphukan, the celebrated General of the Ahom dynasty, defeated Aurangzeb's army in the historic Saraighat battle and that defeat proved to be the final nail in the coffin of the expansionist policies of Mughals in northeast India.

Inaugurating the

Patna, Amid the crisis in Ukraine, the plight of Indian students keep coming from the war zone.

Reema Singh, a medical student and daughter of ruling Janata Dal-United MLA Rajiv Kumar Singh, contacted her father on Friday and informed that she is safe.

"My daughter went to Ukraine for medical s

New Delhi,  As hostilities continue between Russia and Ukraine, the Tata Group-led Air India will mount direct flights to Romania and Hungary for bringing back stranded Indians.

Romania and Hungary share land borders with Ukraine.

Many Indian nationals, including students, have made their way i