Two block level leaders of Trinamool Congress were gunned down at a public place on Friday morning in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district. Police said the two - Mukunda Das and Khirod Das - were gunned down on the main road of Padmapukur village. ...
03:57 PM, Jan 11, 2013
In a virtual indictment of the West Bengal government, Governor MK Narayan on Wednesday said "goondaism" was taking place in the state, rocked by Trinamool-Left clashes, and police should act impartially. ...
10:49 AM, Jan 10, 2013
A day after supporters of the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of India - Marxist clashed with each other leaving more than 20 people injured, the two political parties have threatened to hold rallies against each other in Kolkata. The clashes took place at Bamanghata in South 24 Parganas district when the Left supporters were en route to Kolkata for a party rally. ...
08:03 AM, Jan 09, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called an emergency high level meeting at Writers' Buildings to review the worsening law and order situation in the state following clashes between Trinamool Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) supporters. The meeting is being attended by the state chief and home secretaries as well as the state DGP and senior police officers. ...
03:01 PM, Jan 08, 2013
The supporters of the Trinamool Congress and Communist Party of India - Marxist clashed on Tuesday in the Bhangar area of South 24 Parganas district when the Left supporters were headed for the Kolkata rally. ...
02:32 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Politics has hit a further low in West Bengal barely a week after CPM MLA Ansiur Rehman made disparaging remarks against Mamata Banerjee. Now, TMC minister Jyotipriya Mallick has slammed former CPM minister Gautam Deb, comparing him to a rotten fish. ...
09:32 AM, Jan 07, 2013
CPM leader and former West Bengal minister Rezzak Mollah was allegedly attacked at Bangpur, South 24 Parganas on Sunday. The party has alleged that Trinamool Congress strongman and MLA Arabul Islam is behind the attack. ...
03:17 PM, Jan 06, 2013
It was a year of bad publicity for Mamata Banerjee and she has now had enough. The Trinamool supremo is now asking partymen to mind their manners and school their tongues. Her plan is to introduce special training sessions to groom party MLAs in the art of public speaking. ...
09:41 AM, Jan 05, 2013
The centenary session of the 100th Science Congress tomorrow will bring Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the same dais a little over three months after the Trinamool Congress dumped the UPA over FDI in multi-brand retail. ...
03:54 AM, Jan 03, 2013
After being embarrassed, the Trinamool Congress has suspended the party workers who threw money at women dancers at its foundation day party on Tuesday. Party MP Derek O'Brien tweeted saying that the TMC disciplinary committee was meeting to take a call, and that expulsion was not ruled out. ...
03:41 PM, Jan 02, 2013
The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday condemned its workers who were caught on camera heckling and throwing money at hired women dancers at its founding day party. TMC leader Derek O'Brien said, "One of the celebration events obviously went wrong. We condemn what happened. We need to find out who these people are, whether TMC workers or others. What happened last night was condemnable. ...
12:19 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Bengal's politics seems to have hit a new low. At the Trinamool Congress' founding day party on Tuesday, party workers threw money and heckled hired female dancers. The incident took place at South 24 Parganas district. ...
08:55 AM, Jan 02, 2013
Favouring a special session of Parliament on the issue, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday demanded more stringent laws against rape saying CRPC and IPC provisions were outdated. Expressing shock at the death of the 23-year old Delhi braveheart in Singapore, Banerjee said, "there is need for more stringent laws against those who commit such crimes as the provisions of the IPC and CrPC are very old." ...
05:10 PM, Dec 29, 2012
In a blunt message to the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha demand, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday ruled any division of West Bengal. "There will be no division of Bengal. Darjeeling is not outside West Bengal. Dooars is not outside West Bengal," Banerjee said while launching the campaign in North Bengal for next year's panchayat elections. ...
02:37 AM, Dec 29, 2012
Even as the 23-year-old Delhi gangrape survivor continues to be in a very critical condition, fighting against all odds for her survival in a Singapore hospital, the politicians back home have hit a new low as they mocked victims of heinous crimes like rape and passed comments that could be termed extremely shocking and shameful. ...
06:40 PM, Dec 28, 2012
The Park Street rape survivor on Friday criticised Trinamool Congress leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar for her remarks against her. Dastidar had reportedly said that it "was not a rape but a misunderstanding between a lady and her client". "If you're referring to the Park Street rape, see that is a different case altogether. That was not at all a rape case. It was a misunderstanding between the two parties involved,...
03:55 PM, Dec 28, 2012
The lack of gender sensitivity and appalling comments has transcended political lines. In another shocking remark, Trinamool Congress leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has called the Park Street rape case of February 5, 2012, a misunderstanding between a lady and her client. "If you're refering to the Park Street rape, see that is a different case altogether that was not at all a rape case. It was a misunderstanding between the...
03:14 PM, Dec 28, 2012
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday slammed its leader Anisur Rehman for his sexist remark against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Rehman, during a rally on Thursday, had questioned how much would Mamata demand as compensation if she too were sexually assaulted, referring to Mamata's demands for Rs 20,000 as compensation for rape victims. ...
01:28 PM, Dec 28, 2012
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has come out strongly against the Communist Party of India (Marxist) over a sexist remark made by one of its leaders against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Party leader Kakoli Ghosh lashed out at the party, accusing it of being bereft of political values and calling them hooligans. ...
10:31 AM, Dec 28, 2012
After Congress MP Abhijit Mukherjee, another politician from West Bengal has made a sexist remark, and this time the target is none other than Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. CPM leader Anisur Rehman made the crude remarks against the CM at a rally at Itahar in North Dinajpur. ...
09:51 AM, Dec 28, 2012
