Altogether 383 candidates, including 33 women, are fighting for the 56 seats which are spread over seven districts - Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda and Birbhum.
Modi, who termed the incident as "heart-rending" and "shocking", announced Rs two lakh each as compensation for the next of the kin of the dead and Rs 50,000 each for the injured.
Do you have a Baby G watch and forgot to keep the instructions, or found them too difficult to follow? Do you wonder how to set an alarm on it? You have come to the right place.
A study has found that strong, thoughtful language that is more often a product of email and not voicemail arouses the emotions better than voicemail.
Manoj Tongar, a resident of Machgar village said that the committee has been assigned with the task of visiting the Atali village which was scene of communal clashes twice in the last two months.
The removal of requirement of minority certificates is in keeping with the government's decision to accept self-attestation across all departments and educational institutes.
Chondrules are believed to be the original building blocks of the solar system, researchers said. The study shows that asteroids were formed by capturing chondrules with the help of gravitational force.
The ship, named Visakhapatnam (Project 15 B) is 65 per cent indigenous and has a number of weapon systems which have been made at home.
Facebook says it generates a lot of real economic activity - $227 billion worth of economic impact and 4.5 million jobs in 2014, according to a new study.
An injury to playmaker James Rodriguez could prompt Real to dip into the transfer market next month and they are interested in Cruzeiro midfielder Lucas Silva among others.
Geetu Mohandas' film 'Liar's Dice' is representing India at the Academy Awards this year.
The August inflation, measured by Wholesale Price Index (WPI), declined from 5.19 per cent in July, while the same was 6.99 per cent in the same month last year.
The National Education Policy was last revamped in 1986.
The decision to seek army chief General Raheel Sharif's help was taken after both Qadri and Khan refused to budge from their demand for Sharif to quit.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to convene his decision-making security cabinet on Tuesday to discuss the proposed truce, an Israeli official said.
