Kolkata: Upset over various incidents ranging from the Park Street rape case to attack on human rights organisations, intellectuals of Kolkata, including a Trinamool Congress MP, on Thursday hit the streets in protest against the 11-month-old Trinamool regime in the state. "There are lots of differences between the old Mamata Banerjee and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The people of this state have thrown away those who have tried to throttle...
08:12 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has been contemplating amendment to the present Panchayat Act, 1973, to remove some lacunae in it. "We think there are some lacunae in the present Act and in view of this, we are considering amendment to the Panchayat Act, 1973," state's Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee told reporters at Writers' Buildings. Incidentally, Mukherjee was the Panchayat minister in the SS Ray cabinet in 1973 when the...
08:24 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government's move to extend the national grid to the Sundarbans delta for electrifying villages has come in for criticism from environmentalists. "The land is soft and setting up large and heavy transmission poles may lead to greater erosion, and change the tidal patterns when installed in rivers and creeks," SP Gon Chaudhuri, former director of West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation Limited (WBGEDCL), told PTI. These...
12:24 PM, Mar 02, 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
Kolkata: West Bengal Government on Thursday declared 730 days Child Care Leave (CCL) for working mothers employed by the state government, apart from their scheduled maternity leaves, during their entire service career. "This revolutionary decision has been taken in the state cabinet meeting today. The entire holiday will be with pay", state's Industry and Commerce Minister Partha Chatterjee told reporters. With this decision, working mothers employed by the state government...
11:30 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Kolkata: Three weeks after the directors of Kolkata's AMRI Hospital were taken into custody after a fire in the hospitals basement claimed 89 lives, industry body FICCI has slammed the arrest of 7 hospital directors as anti-industry, and not 'completely non-discriminatory'. In a strongly worded statement, FICCI demanded the immediate release of those who were not responsible in the day-to-day operations of the business. It said it would prevent the...
10:12 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal Health Department, after health officials visited the main wing of the AMRI Hospital on Tuesday, instructed the Dhakuria wing of the hospital, where over 90 people killed in fire, to stop admitting new patients in the main wing as well. The main building was still in operation after the Annexe building was sealed after Friday's fire. This, in effect, means that the state government has cancelled...
09:51 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court is expected to pronounce its verdict on a plea filed by Tata Motors challenging the constitutional validity of the Singur Land rehabilitation act. The Supreme Court, on an appeal from Tata Motors, had stayed distribution of the land of the disputed factory site until further orders from the High Court. The judgement is scheduled to be passed at 10:30 am by the court of Justice...
07:49 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Kolkata: The Calcutta high court will continue hearing the Tata Motor's plea to scrap the Singur Land Act on Thursday. Tatas on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court against the bill, which allowed the state to cancel the lease agreement. The company challenged the act passed just last week and asked for an interim order to regain possession of the land. "We are saying that the Act is ultra vires...
10:02 AM, Jun 23, 2011
Kolkata: In the first major reshuffle after taking over, the Mamata Banerjee government on Monday effected some changes in police and civil administration. Additional Director (Security), A K Maliwal was given the newly-created post of Additional Director (Provision). Senior IPS officer Virendra will replace Maliwal as Additional Director (Security), Secretariat officials said. Additional DGP (Welfare) Sivaji Ghosh will take over as Special Commissioner (I) of Kolkata Police, while IGP CID...
10:18 PM, May 30, 2011
Kolkata: In a rare gesture, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over a personal cheque of Rs 2 lakh to the Chief Secretary towards the cost of renovating her official chamber at the state secretariat. Ten days after assuming office as Chief Minister after toppling the long-ruling Left Front government, Banerjee on Monday sat for the first time in her refurbished chamber that had been under renovation...
06:08 PM, May 30, 2011
Kolkata: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday assured that West Bengal would be provided all assistance to tide over its financial crisis. "Whatever short-term assistance is required will be provided and after discussions a long-term plan for the state's financial recovery will be taken," Mukherjee told newsmen after a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at his residence. Accepting that the situation was 'difficult', Mukherjee said in the presence...
08:13 PM, May 29, 2011
Kolkata: The Maoists on Saturday said they would consider a proposal for talks with the Mamata Banerjee government if the Chief Minister spelled out her stand on junglemahal. "Immediately after the swearing-in ceremony, Banerjee said she was ready to hold talks to sort out problems in junglemahal, but she did not speak about specific plans," West Bengal state committee members of Communist Party of India (Maoist) Bikram and Bikas said...
07:17 PM, May 28, 2011
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Sunday formally staked claim to form the government in West Bengal shortly after Mamata Banerjee was elected Leader of it's Legislature Party. A four-member Trinamool Congress delegation met Governor M K Narayanan and submitted a list of 184 party MLAs staking claim to form the government. Trinamool Congress chief Banerjee was not in the delegation as she had left for New Delhi with Union Finance...
08:24 PM, May 15, 2011
New Delhi: Charging Home Minister P Chidambaram with adopting a "partisan approach", the CPI(M) on Monday said the purpose of his letter to the West Bengal government on alleged role of armed CPI(M) cadres was meant to "serve the political interests of Trinamool Congress". The party also sought an explanation from him, saying the media was briefed about his letter to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee even before it reached the...
02:51 PM, Dec 27, 2010
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