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
Kolkata: After asking people not to watch certain channels, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that the state would launch its own television channel and newspaper. The Trinamool Congress chief said that the television channel and the newspaper would publicise the activities and achievements of the government. "In one year, this government has far exceeded development promises it had made," said Mamata. She further said, "We are...
03:24 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Kolkata: Dubbing the West Bengal government's order asking state-run and state-funded libraries to stock only specific newspapers as "most partial and undemocratic", the Congress on Sunday urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to immediately withdraw the order. "West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee is deeply concerned over the recent controversy and turmoil surrounding the issuance of a circular by the Directorate of Library Services, Government of West Bengal. The content of the...
01:47 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Kolkata: A West Bengal minister on Sunday defended the government's order to its libraries to stock only specific newspapers for promoting "free thinking" and said only pro-government dailies will be given preference. "We are running the government and whoever writes about us will get preference. Only pro-government newspapers will be promoted. Where is the harm in it," Minister of State for Rural Development Sisir Adhikari asked while speaking to reporters....
08:26 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have mastered the art of making unforced errors, to use a sports terminology, to hand down potent ammunition to her opponents. She regularly generates controversies without fail through her actions and utterances, the latest being the government's decision to ban most leading dailies from state-run and state funded libraries. Earlier, during her consistent opposition to the Left rule before she became...
12:20 PM, Apr 01, 2012
Kolkata: English dailies or high circulation Bengali ones will no longer be available in state-sponsored and aided libraries in West Bengal, according to an official circular. The circular specified eight newspapers which it said would significantly contribute to the development and spread of free thinking among the library users. Listing the eight newspapers published in Bengali Hindi and Urdu, the Department of Mass Education, Extension and Library Services, in a...
02:53 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New York: The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organisations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, have come to light as the NYPD fends off criticism of its monitoring of Muslim student groups and...
10:51 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Deccan Herald, a premier English newspaper from south India, launched its Delhi edition on Sunday, its seventh since it began publishing from Bangalore in June 1948. The Delhi edition comes with Metrolife, a youth-oriented city supplement, four days a week, a statement from the daily said. Living, a Lifestyle supplement, will accompany the paper on Saturdays. The weekend Sunday Herald will focus on trends, culture, art, entertainment, books...
10:50 AM, Dec 12, 2011
London: The newspaper coverage was troubling: London's huge international showcase was beset by planning problems, local opposition and labor woes - and the transportation was a mess. It sounds like the 2012 Olympics, but this was the Great Exhibition of 1851 generating stories of late trains, unscrupulous landlords and dangerous overcrowding. Coverage of the event is found in 4 million pages of newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries being...
11:10 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Oslo: The accused ringleader of a terror plot in Norway has rejected charges that he conspired with al Qaeda to attack a Danish newspaper, saying he was planning a solo raid against the Chinese Embassy in Oslo. Mikael Davud, a Chinese Muslim, told the Oslo district court on Thursday his two alleged accomplices helped him acquire bomb-making ingredients but didn't know he was planning an attack. The trio was arrested...
07:59 AM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: As social activist Anna Hazare's fast enters Day 5 on Saturday, pressure is mounting on the UPA government to find a way out of the deadlock. The Parliament's Standing Committee has placed an advertisement in Saturday's newspapers calling for views from the public on the Lokpal Bill. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on personnel, public grievances, law and justice, which is to suggest amendments to the Lokpal Bill, on...
11:12 AM, Aug 20, 2011
Brussels: Google blocked several Belgian newspapers from its web search results Friday in what the papers called retaliation over a copyright infringement lawsuit. Google said an order issued in the case required it to exclude the newspapers' websites. The newspapers filed a lawsuit against Google in 2006 claiming the web giant had no right to post links to their articles on Google News without payment or permission. They won, and...
01:32 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Chennai: The family that runs The Hindu, is slugging it out in court on the question of management. In the course of the legal battle the counsel for Nirmala Lakshmanan, Joint Editor of The Hindu said in a hearing at the Madras High Court that N Ram wanted to exit by selling his shares at a premium for which he was looking for an investor. N Ram responded to the...
08:32 AM, Jun 22, 2011
Chicago: Chicago businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana on Thursday was found not guilty on charges that he assisted in carrying out the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 166 people. However, he was convicted by the jury for his role in a thwarted plot targeting a Danish newspaper that printed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Court spokesman Randall Samborn said, "Rana is convicted of providing material support...
03:50 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Chicago: International pressure in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks led Lashkar-e-Taiba to abandon its plan to attack a Danish newspaper in retaliation to the publication of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammed, David Coleman Headley told a court on Tuesday. Deposing before a federal court in Chicago, Mumbai attacks suspect David Headley, said he was told by one of his handlers in Pakistan, Sajid Mir, during a visit to Lahore...
09:46 AM, May 25, 2011
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