Patna, Nov 14 : Sale of devotional music cassettes, CDs and imported fruits are on the rise in the eastern part of India, mainly Bihar and neighbouring areas of Uttar Pradesh, ahead of the Chhat Pu

Patna, Nov. 14 : A bureaucrat in Patna, Anjani Kumar Singh, has earned a unique distinction for collecting over 7,000 species of Cycus plant from different parts of the country and world.

Kolkata, Nov 14 : Thousands of people from varied field, including the intelligentsia, took out a protest march here on Wednesday against the violence in West Bengal's Nandigram area.

New Delhi, Nov 14 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday hinted at the thaw between the UPA and the Left Front over the contentious Indo-US civil nuclear deal, and stated that he

New Delhi, Nov 14 : Vijay L. Kelkar, former Union Finance Secretary and adviser to the Finance Minister, has been appointed as Chairman of the XIIIth Finance Commission.

The President constituted the XIIIth Finance Commission under Article 280 (1) of the Constitution.

Other full time members of the Commission are Indira Rajaraman, Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Abusaleh Shariff, Chief Economist, National Council of Applied Economic Research, and Atul Sarma, former Vice-Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University.

B. K Chaturvedi, Member of Planning Commission will be a part time member of the Commission. Sumit Bose will be the Secretary of the Commission.

New Delhi, Nov 14 : Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday said that the healthcare revolution is waiting to happen in the country, and called for developing new infrastructure in the sect