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Over 68 percent, or 833 million, of Indians still live in villages despite a sharp decline recorded for the first time in the overall growth rate of the country’s rural population, according to the census data released Friday. According to the rural urban distribution of population census, of the 1.21 billion Indians, 377 crore stay in urban areas. The census data on the rural-urban break-up of population, which is considered very useful for policy-making, …

Within days of the West Bengal government reaching an agreement with Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), Bollywood returned to the picturesque Darjeeling hills Wednesday for a film shoot after an eight-year gap. The shooting of Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra starrer Barfee' was held at Ghum station of Darjeeling. The film is being directed by Anurag Basu. The film is a romantic murder mystery and will be shot at various locations in Darjeeling in …

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar Saturday revealed his old Kolkata connection: He once worked in a travel agency in central Kolkata in the early 1980s. “I want to share something with you guys. I have an old connection with this city (Kolkata) and I love it. During early 1983-84 I used to work in a travel agency in New Market area of Kolkata,” Akshay told media persons here. He said he felt proud and nostalgic whenever he came to the metropolis. “Earlier …

After the successful launch of Duranto trains, Rail Minister Mamata Banerjee has moved on to her next pet project... that of launching Air-conditioned Double Decker coaches, these coaches are being manufactured indigenously at the Kapurthala Coach Factory.

The private sector is likely to contribute nearly half of the estimated $1 trillion investment in infrastructure sector during the 12th five-year plan period (fiscal 2012-17), Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Monday. “Nearly 30 percent of the total spending on infrastructure sector during the first three years of the 11th plan period has come from private sources. As we go into the next plan period, we expect this proportion to go up to nearly …

Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata said Monday he regrets Tata Motors could not do the Nano car project which it wanted to do in West Bengal, but the state would always be there as a part of the group’s corporate identity. “We regret we have not been able to do what we wanted to do over here,” he said, without mentioning the Singur project in the annual general meeting of the company. Tata Motors in October 2008 moved the small car plant to Sanand …

Tens of thousands of Left activists staged noisy but peaceful protests across India Thursday, with thousands courting arrest, to denounce rising food prices and attacks on their cadres in West Bengal, party sources said. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said an estimated 25 lakh workers and leaders of the CPI-M, Communist Party of India (CPI), Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) took part in the protests. A CPI-M statement …

Konkona Sen Sharma believes that “The Japanese Wife” is Rahul Bose’s best film so far. “I think this is Rahul’s best film. This is a very poignant, sweet and sad love story. It’s very unusual. This kind of film we don’t get to see always,” said Konkona who worked with him in “Mr & Mrs Iyer”. “The Japanese Wife” is about three people – Snehamoy Chatterjee (Rahul Bose), an arithmetic teacher in a school in the interiors of West Bengal, his pen friend …

Aparna Sen, whose long-awaited film “The Japanese Wife” will soon be seen in the theatres, says she couldn’t trust anyone but old favourite Rahul Bose to play Snehamoy, the Sundarbans schoolteacher who falls in love with a woman he’s never met. “To play Snehamoy, I needed an actor who would give me 200 percent,” Sen, who gets back to direction after “15 Park Avenue”,said in an interview. “What is very difficult about Snehamoy’s character is that …