New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a one-day trip to Kolkata, where he will be attending two events - one at the Bose Institute, and the other at Calcutta University, where he's set to share the dais with West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. This will be the leaders' first meeting after the petrol price hike, which the TMC chief has been protesting against....
09:21 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Mumbai: Filmmakers rarely applaud each other's work but Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee are all praises for each other. After watching 'Shanghai', Kashyap has declared it is the best film he has ever watched and Banerjee is the country's best director. "It's a film that should be made compulsory for everybody to watch. This is the most powerful and the best film I have seen in a long time," Kashyap...
04:06 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Patna: RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Friday said that the murder of now defunct Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh should not be politicised. Lalu also commented that there is no law and order in the state. "Ranvir Sena Chief Mukhiaji is not a small name amongst the farmers of Bihar. The people in the area and across the state are very upset, " pointed Lalu. The RJD chief also demanded...
12:59 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Kolkata: Warning that "politics of destruction" would not be tolerated, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said her government was considering bringing in a law to penalise political parties indulging in vandalism. "We can't tolerate vandalism, hooliganism and politics of destruction. We can't accept the destruction of public property during shutdowns and strikes by political parties," Mamata told reporters here on a day an opposition-sponsored shutdown saw sporadic...
02:02 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Jaunpur: The Doon Express on Thursday got derailed near Mahrawa station in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, killing at least three people died and injuring 15 other. Union Railways Minister Mukul Roy ordered an enquiry into the accident, saying sabotage cannot be ruled out. The Railway Minister, who is mostly absent from New Delhi, ordered the routine enquiry in Kolkata. A crowded Doon Express was en-route to Dehradun from Howrah when...
08:53 PM, May 31, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the CPI-M of colluding with the BJP over Thursday's NDA-sponsored bandh and indulging in acts of arson and other violent activity. "They (CPI-M) used to dub me as the supporter of BJP. But today the CPI(M) in collusion with the BJP has organised this bandh and indulged in destructive activities like setting fire to some buses. I leave it to the...
08:21 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday said it had no information on the claim by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that the CPM had hatched a conspiracy to assassinate her with help from abroad. At the presentation of the monthly report card of Ministry of Home Affairs, Home Minister P Chidambaram was asked by a reporter about the details of threats being faced by the Trinamool Congress supremo as...
07:29 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy has said that sabotage cannot be ruled out in the Doon Express accident near Mahrawa station in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh. A total of five bogies of the 18-coach Doon Express derailed killing at least five people and injuring 12 others. The Railway Minister also ordered a high-level enquiry into the incident, terming the accident as unfortunate. "Relief and rescue operations are...
04:42 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unbridled joy at the Kolkata Knight Riders winning the fifth season of the Indian Premier League was ...
01:11 PM, May 31, 2012
Mumbai: Bollywood has always opened its gates for budding talent and there seems to be a sudden demand for Bengali actors in Hindi cinema post the box-office success of Vidya Balan starrer 'Kahaani' and Paoli Dam's 'Hate Story'. As 'Kahaani' director Sujoy Ghosh plans to bring Vidya Balan back as Bidya Bagchi in a sequel, Kolkata and the Bengali stars are set to become more important. "Writing begins. I have...
12:23 PM, May 31, 2012
Endemol India Private Limted, the pioneers in Hindi serial production is a big name in the entertainment industry of the country. They have now join hands with one of the most reputed Tamil production house Nemichand Jhabhak Productions for their maiden venture in Tamil. Endemol India Private Limited, keen to provide quality entertainment, comes to film production for the first time and have appropriately chosen to do the remake of...
12:11 PM, May 31, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Wednesday put in place several measures to prevent Thursday's NDA-sponsored 12-hour 'Bharat Bandh' against petrol price hike while issuing a circular warning government employees against any leave on Thursday. "All state government offices will remain open and all government officers and employees should report for duty. Government employees will not be granted any leave on May 31," Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh said in a...
10:51 PM, May 30, 2012
Kolkata: A day after courting controversy for saying "true paribartan" (change) had touched West Bengal, Governor MK Narayanan on Wednesday said his words referred to Kolkata Knight Riders' (KKR) win. "After trying for four years, it (KKR) finally won (the Indian Premier League). It is obviously a change. 'Paribartan' means change. It has nothing to do with the state government," he told reporters. While addressing the KKR felicitation ceremony at...
08:13 PM, May 30, 2012
Kolkata: It was de facto holiday in Kolkata on Tuesday as the Mamata Banerjee government pulled out all the stops to celebrate Kolkata Knight Riders' Indian Premier League (IPL) win with thousands of people on the streets and offices reporting thin attendance. Businesspersons and economists termed it a colossal loss of manhours and productivity. The West Bengal capital came to a virtual standstill as office-goers either took time off to...
06:16 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Providing comfort to worried foreign investors, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said that the Income Tax Department will not reopen cases where assessment proceedings had been finalised before April 1, 2012. "I gave a commitment in Parliament with regard to retrospective amendments that CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) will issue a policy circular to clarify that in cases where assessment proceedings have become final before first...
04:19 PM, May 30, 2012
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