It has been just a year and a half that the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government assumed power in West Bengal and the fault lines within the party rank and file are already beginning to show. ...
01:03 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Trinamool Congress cadres are engaged in extortion and the Chief Minister knows about it, said a disgruntled West Bengal minister who played a key role in Mamata Banerjee's Singur agitation, days after he was shunted to a low key department. He also alleged that Trinamool Congress leaders were involved in cash-for-job scandals. ...
07:27 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Burdwan: Burdwan may be the Rice Bowl of Bengal. However, its farmers are committing suicide. Here, rice is not a source of prosperity but of anguish. Spiralling debt has reportedly driven 16 farmers here to commit suicide in the past one year. Fifty-four-year-old Amiya Saha was one such farmer. The memories haunt his wife, but what hurts more is the continued government denials that something is amiss here. Says Jayanta...
04:07 PM, Jun 24, 2012
