Madhya Pradesh's Gross Domestic Product ( GDP) growth rate has swelled to 12 per cent in the last fiscal from 8 per cent in 2010-11, according to the revised estimates, officials said on Friday.  Besides, the state, having agrarian economy, recorded 18 per cent agriculture growth rate in 2011 - 12, they added.  The economic and agriculture growth is bound to benefit a huge populace engaged in construction and agriculture sector by...

-The Telegraph Industries minister Partha Chatterjee today turned down a suggestion by CPM leader Surjya Kanta Mishra to follow the Tamil Nadu model by amending the central land acquisition act to fulfil its objective of returning land to Singur’s farMers instead of battling it out in court. The leader of the Opposition also assured Chatterjee that the Left Front would support the state government in the Assembly if it agreed to introduce...

-The Times of India HYDERABAD: Nithin Gollamudi, a city student dreams to be a doctor and secretly wants to be the state topper in medical entrance examination. Belonging to an economically and socially backward family, the 12-year-old who was helping his father in a masonry shop in Chotuppal till two years ago even while going to a nearby government school says that it would have been impossible for him to dream...

The Central Information Commission ( CIC) has directed the home ministry to disclose file notings and correspondence related to the Mercy petitions of all death row convicts including Afzal Guru. Giving the order information commissioner Sushma Singh asked the home ministry to provide information of Mercy petitions related to all convicts (pending and disposed) after Devindersingh Khullar and Mahendernath Dass. The order was based on a RTI application filed by activists S...

-The Telegraph Trinamul Congress leaders today criticised governor M.K. Narayanan for saying that “legal advice” from the administration did not talk of seeking presidential assent for the Singur law. “I thought we did not require the president’s approval. That was the legal advice also. If the high court felt otherwise, it’s fine. That’s ok. What can we do?” the governor had said in response to a question yesterday. A Calcutta High Court division...