Kolkata: Meet Nityananda Das, one of Singur's "unwilling farmer" who lost his land to Tata Motors. His family was allegedly tortured by the police and CPM cadres for refusing to accept the Left Front Government's compensation package. Despite a change of political guard, Nityananda Das and 2000 other Singur farmers are still waiting for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to fulfill her promise of returning their land. "We are...
09:40 AM, May 20, 2012
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee has also announced that the West Bengal government will launch its own current affairs television channels and a newspaper. The Trinamool Chief had accused a section of the media of painting a bad picture of her government. With her former supporters turning vociferous critics a clearly perturbed Mamata has decided to give herself an image boost. It's not too strange a decision coming from the Chief Minister...
11:36 PM, Apr 21, 2012
New Delhi: It now seems that distributing satirical cartoon of Mamata Banerjee may not be the real cause behind the assault and subsequent harassment of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra. Rather a clash of interests between the housing society residents and Trinamool Congress-builders nexus is emerging as the root of the trouble. Reports say that it's not free speech which is at stake, in fact Ambikesh Mahapatra was arrested because...
10:18 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Kolkata: It was a cartoon on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that earned Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and his neighbour Subrata Sengupta, the West Bengal government's ire. The two are now out on bail, after being arrested for sharing the satirical cartoon with others through the university e-mail system. Mahapatra alleges that he was roughed up by Trinamool Congress workers and forced to write an apology, confessing to being a...
07:31 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Kolkata: After the recent controversy over banning certain English newspapers in government libraries, now a proposed restructure in history syllabus in the state-run schools has assumed political colours. The move has left the Mamata Banerjee government facing yet another controversy. Many, however, see this academic effort turning political as unfortunate. Mamata now plans to remove the red of communism from West Bengal's textbooks. A state government appointed committee has proposed...
06:39 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Kolkata: Heavy thundershowers woke Kolkata on Friday morning. In fact, overnight rains have left several parts of the city waterlogged. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been working to drain out the water. While the showers have stopped for the time being, the MET predicts more rainfall through the day. The weather condition is unusual for this time of the year and the MET cites the reason as a depression over...
10:17 AM, Apr 06, 2012
The sun quietly drifted behind the hills and I was standing in the middle of nowhere as dusk approached. We had travelled nearly 30 kilometres ...
11:01 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Kolkata: Auto rickshaw drivers went on a rampage in different parts of Kolkata and held rush hour traffic to ransom on Tuesday while protesting hike in fuel prices. Auto rickshaw drivers pelted stones on buses and forced passengers to disembark. The highly unionised three-wheeler operators in the city blocked roads at Kankurgachi, Phulbagan and Hudco crossing in north Kolkata and at Rashbehari crossing in the southern part of the city,...
12:44 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Lamba Bandha (Odisha): Nine days after Maoists abducted two Italians - Bosusco Paolo and Claudio Colangelo, the second round of negotiations between the government negotiators and the Maoists to free the hostages are set to resume on Friday. The first round of negotiations ended on Thursday in a stalemate. Dandapani Mohanty, one of the mediators suggested by the Maoists, claimed that one of the hostages could be released on Friday...
12:00 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: The abduction of the two Italians is a clear reflection that Maoists are not on the back foot even after operation Green Hunt. CNN-IBN travelled to Kandhamal in Odisha to find out the ground reality. Sixty two-year-old Pyari Mohan Naik, a retired school teacher in Kandhamal, came to know about the abduction of two Italian trekkers through his radio, his only means of contact with the outside world....
10:25 AM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Naxal leader Sabyasachi Panda has reportedly issued a fresh audio tape regarding the abducted Italian nationals and set Tuesday evening as the new deadline for the state government to respond. The message in the tape says that the two Italian tourists are safe and are being fed well. The Naxals have also announced a unilateral ceasefire and urged the odisha government to declare the halt of all operations...
07:17 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Parambrata Chatterjee who plays the supportive police inspector in the film talks about the film and working with Vidya. ...
07:02 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Two Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists were arrested on Sunday night in the Burdwan double murder case. CID is hopeful to soon crack the murder case of two CPI(M) leaders allegedly by a mob on February 22. The CID arrested Mantu Ghosh and Nabakumar Roy from the Mirzapur area of Burdwan, close to where the murders took place. CID has taken up the case of the killing of former...
04:27 PM, Mar 12, 2012
Kolkata: Despite West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's tall claims, another rape case has been reported in Bankura district of the state. An 18-year-old hearing impaired patient was allegedly raped by an attending doctor at the government-run Bankura Medical College and Hospital late Monday evening. The CID and the state Health Department are probing the charges, but no arrests have been made so far. "They took my daughter for examination...
10:43 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Kolkata: Two CPI(M) leaders were hacked to death allegedly by Trinamool supporters in West Bengal on Wednesday. The recent spate of political killings in the state has left the Mamata Banerjee government red faced. Former CPI(M) Burdwan MLA Pradip Tah and district leader Kamal Gayen succumbed to injuries on Wednesday after they were allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress supporters at a rally. Injured CPI(M) supporter Rupkumar Gupta said, "We were...
11:08 AM, Feb 23, 2012
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