Political violence has been rising in West Bengal under the government of Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee. There have been 642 cases of violent clashes related to students politics in the first five months of Mamata Banerjee's tenure. While 27 people have lost their lives at least 926 political workers and 128 students have been injured in the clashes. ...
05:22 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Kolkata: Failing to elicit adequate response from banks and other financial institutions to invest in its proposed financial hub at New Town on the city's northern periphery, the West Bengal government is considering offering a fresh package. "We are ready to offer a fresh package, if Expressions of Interest (EOIs) are not received for all plots within October 31, the last date for its submission", state urban development minister Firhad...
09:20 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Kolkata: With West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee giving a 15-day ultimatum to the central government for accepting the state's demand for a three-year interest moratorium, Trinamool Congress on Monday said it will raise the issue in both the houses of parliament in the upcoming budget session. "The Trinamool MPs of both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha will raise this issue of financial burden on Bengal. All the Trinamool MPs...
09:40 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Mamata cartoon controversy: Tonight at 10 pm, CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, are Indian leaders intolerant of dissent?
11:49 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Mamata Banerjee said that she is against the hike in the passenger fare announced in the Railway Budget. ...
09:51 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday granted bail to AMRI director RS Agarwal but rejected similar pleas of four other board members of the private hospital, where over 90 people suffocated to death in the December 9 fire tragedy. A division bench, comprising Justice Asim Roy and Justice Tarun Gupta, granted the bail prayer of Agarwal and rejected those of RS Goenka, Manish Goenka, Prasant Goenka and Ravi Todi....
06:18 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhgi: Two days to go before Parliament resumes and the Prime Minister has expressed hope that Parliament will function smoothly after Friday's adjournment brought on by pandemonium in both Houses on the FDI in retail issue. This even as the opposition in no uncertain terms serves the government an ultimatum to rollback the decision or face more adjournments. The government seems to be blinking due to sustained pressure from...
06:12 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Kolkata: She went to a movie hall after 20 years and loved it. By her own admission, the film that finally pulled West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the silver screen after such a long time was 'Moner Manush'. "During my student life I used to go to the auditoria to watch movies. But for the last 20 years I had never watched a film there," Banerjee disclosed to...
06:26 PM, Sep 30, 2011
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has released popular Bengali folk band Bhoomi's new album 'Desh Jurrey'. After the success of the group's album 'Gaan Doriyay' released prior to last year's Durga Puja festival, Desh Jurrey' features eight songs translated in Bengali from different regional languages. Bhoomi is scheduled to leave for Australia to perform in a series of programmes. Accepting a request from the chief minister, Bhoomi members Soumitra...
12:54 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Rahul Gandhi's role in Land Acquisition Bill is crucial says rural development minister Jairam Ramesh. ...
10:24 AM, Sep 09, 2011
Jalpaiguri: As Mamata Banerjee's juggernaut rolls out, the Left seems to have hit a red-end in Jalpaiguri. It looks like the tea tribes are drifting away from the Left. Living on the brink of civilisation, these people have been through decades of neglect and deprivation. Trade-unionism and management woes have left many tea-gardens such as this, shut for years, leaving hundreds of families jobless. Seen as the traditional vote bank...
09:14 AM, Apr 17, 2011
The paintings start at Rs 50000 and forty four of ninety eight paintings are already sold out. ...
08:58 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Kolkata: A "depressed" youth, who had set himself on fire in front of Railway minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's residence at Kalighat in Kolkata, died of his injuries tonight at a private hospital. "Prasun Dutta, died of cardiac arrest at 10.20 pm at Belle Vue nursing home in Kolkata," hospital sources said."Dutta succumbed to his injuries but the final moment came off a cardiac arrest," the sources said....
10:26 AM, Mar 11, 2011
Kolkata/New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday came out strongly against the hike in petrol prices, saying she was not consulted by the Centre on the issue even as CPI-M, BJP and other parties pilloried the Government for working against the interests of the common man. "Maybe, we are part of an ally which is in power at the Centre. But we did not know (about the price...
12:07 AM, Jan 17, 2011
The incident followed attempts by the police to seize polluting autos. ...
01:08 PM, Jan 03, 2009
India's biggest vehicle maker Tata Motors pulled out of Singur on Friday. ...
05:11 PM, Oct 06, 2008
A group of five unidentified men assaulted two Tata Motors guards. ...
11:59 AM, Sep 23, 2008
Tatas may face many hurdles if they set up Nano plant in Karnataka. ...
09:42 PM, Sep 18, 2008
Adelaide: Jacques Kallis is in danger of missing the third Test in Perth next week after aggravating his strained right hamstring while scoring a courageous half-century to help South Africa avoid the follow-on on Saturday in the second Test against Australia. The 37-year-old allrounder hurt his leg while bowling on Thursday and didn't field after the 17th over of Australia's first innings. He batted down the order at No. 9...
12:20 AM, Jul 23, 2008
New Delhi: The BCCI selection committee on Monday retained the same 15-member squad for the remaining three one-day internationals against England. The decision was taken when the committee met during the second ODI at Delhi, which India won to take a 2-0 lead in the series. The selectors also chose the squad for the one-off Twenty20 international and recalled Baroda all-rounder Yusuf Pathan and Karnataka's dashing batsman Robin Uthappa for ...
11:40 PM, Mar 10, 2008
