New Delhi: The running battle between Congress and Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government intensified on Wednesday with the AICC declaring that the Centre has released Rs 23,695 crore to the state, dismissing as a "complete error" state Finance Minister Amit Mitra's statement that not a paisa has been received. Besides, Rs 6754 crore worth of proposals from West Bengal stand approved by the Empowered Committee in the Planning Commission, party...
08:51 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Monday said the cash-strapped government has not received Rs 8,000 crore, as claimed by the Centre. Disputing Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi's claim that the state has been extended this amount, Mitra said at a press conference, "The claim is absolutely incorrect. So far not a single paise has been received as part of a central relief package. Perhaps he is ill-informed"....
06:24 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Tuesday discussed a financial package to help the eastern state to tide over its financial problem and the meeting will continue on Wednesday. "We will meet again on Wednesday," Mitra told reporters after a long meeting with the Union Finance Minister that lasted for more than an hour but remained inconclusive. The two leaders are...
12:33 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Tuesday discussed a financial package to help the eastern state to tide over its financial problem and the meeting will continue on Wednesday. "We will meet again tomorrow," Mitra told after a long meeting with the Union Finance Minister that lasted for more than an hour but remained inconclusive. The two leaders are reported to...
12:39 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee it seems has inherited a staggering debt from the Left in West Bengal. In the last seven months alone, unpaid bills of the government amounts to Rs 3,500 crore. Current Finance Minister Amit Mitra claims the Left government borrowed this proportion atleast from the Centre to ensure salaries of its employees and interest payment on loans. To tide past the financial crises the State Government is now ...
06:54 AM, Jun 01, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Tuesday accused the previous Left Front government of gross financial mismanagement putting the state on the brink of insolvency. Addressing his maiden news conference after assuming charge, Mitra said accumulated liabilities from November, 2010, till March, 2011 stood at Rs 3,500 crore as no bills were paid from the treasury. "A liability of Rs 3,500 crore has been thrust on the new...
06:48 PM, May 31, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday allocated the key Finance portfolio to former FICCI secretary-general Amit Mitra and Commerce, Industries and Parliamentary Affairs department to her close aide Partha Chatteerjee. Portfolios of other cabinet ministers and ministers of state would be announced soon, the chief minister told her maiden press conference after holding the first cabinet meeting at the Writers' Buildings. "I will keep some departments with...
12:03 AM, May 21, 2011
Kolkata: Manish Gupta and Amit Mitra, who defeated former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta respectively in the West Bengal Assembly elections, on Friday found berth in the new cabinet headed by Mamata Banerjee. Gupta, former chief secretary, and Mitra, former FICCI secretary general, won from the key constituencies of Jadavpur and Khardah respectively. Rabi Ranjan Chattopadhya, another giant killer who trounced former Industry Minister Nirupam Sen,...
08:00 PM, May 20, 2011
The party that had forced the Nano project out of WB is now trying to woo Ratan Tata. ...
09:06 AM, May 17, 2011
New Delhi: The poor state of economy in West Bengal will be one of the immediate challenges for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee who is set to become the next chief minister after her resounding win in polls. West Bengal, once amongst the top industrialised states, has lost its pre-eminent position in the country following controversies over land acquisitions for projects like Nano and opposition to special economic zones. Ficci...
06:06 PM, May 13, 2011
FICCI Secretary General Amit Mitra says that peace and stability will help attract investors to West Bengal. ...
08:34 AM, May 13, 2011
FICCI General Secretary and TMC leader Amit Mitra told CNN-IBN that people of Bengal are with TMC. ...
01:36 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Kolkata: Polling came to an end in 75 constituencies spread over Kolkata and two adjacent districts in the third phase of the West Bengal assembly elections on Wednesday. The polling saw an impressive 78.3 per cent turnout in 3rd phase of West Bengal assembly poll, says Election Commission. "However, the number was likely to increase as people are in the queue at several booths, the official said. He said there...
10:50 AM, Apr 27, 2011
Kolkata: The third phase of the West Bengal elections on Wednesday will see a high profile battle of two economic PhDs in Khardah. This time all eyes will be on the two contestants fighting for the state's finance ministry. It's the clash of ideas as voters will have to decide from the liberalisation of Amit Mitra or the labour-intensive growth model of Asim Dasgupta. For FICCI secretary general Amit Mitra,...
08:26 AM, Apr 26, 2011
The queen of 90's Bengal cinema Debashree Roy and the action hero Chiranjeet are in TMC's candidates' list. ...
07:41 AM, Mar 21, 2011
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