A brick kiln worker was seriously injured and his eye severely damaged after he was attacked allegedly by Trinamool Congress supporters for participating in the trade union strike of Wednesday and Thursday. ...
08:41 AM, Feb 23, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said her government was taking up a comprehensive plan to boost tourism in the state. Announcing her plan in Kolkata, Banerjee said the state government would set up a budget hotel at Jharkhali in the Sundarbans in a private public participation. ...
11:58 PM, Feb 22, 2013
A Trinamool Congress councillor of Rishra, an industrial town in West Bengal's Hoogly district and about 24 km from Kolkata, was shot at by miscreants while disembarking at the busy railway station on Friday afternoon. ...
10:07 PM, Feb 22, 2013
The Trinamool Congress on Thursday claimed that no worker of the party was involved in chopping off an ear of a panchayat employee for failing to report to work on day one of the trade union strike at Debipur in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. ...
06:01 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Trinamool Congress workers allegedly chopped off an ear of a panchayat employee after he failed to report for work on day one of the trade unions' strike in West Bengal. The incident took place at Debipur in the Murshidabad district. ...
02:15 PM, Feb 21, 2013
While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared that her government will not allow enforcement of the two-day shutdown called by trade unions, the CPI-M on Monday said the strike would be "more spontaneous" than earlier. ...
01:20 AM, Feb 19, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday declared that her government will not allow forcible enforcement of the two-day shutdown called by central trade unions. "We want to make it clear there will no shut downs in Bengal. Bengal will not remain shut, from schools and colleges to shops and offices, everything will remain open," she said at a public rally in South 24 Parganas district's Diamond Harbour, some...
06:15 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Expressing concern over the recent incidents of violence in the state, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Saturday said the Trinamool Congress government should learn from the mistakes of the previous Left Front regime. ...
02:58 AM, Feb 17, 2013
A day after sacking the Kolkata Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda over the killing of a policeman during a TMC-Congress clash, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has cracked the whip against her own colleague, Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim. Hakim has been stripped off his role as the party's official spokesperson. ...
04:17 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Criticising West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan for questioning the sudden transfer of police chief RK Pachnanda, Trinamool Congress MP Sultan Ahmed on Friday said that he should "behave in consonance" with his gubernatorial responsibilities and not as a "former IPS officer". "The Governor of our state should behave like a Governor and not as a former IPS officer. The state government knows its duties and functions better than anyone else,"...
06:08 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Three days after campus violence rocked Kolkata's Garden Reach area and left a police sub-inspector dead, the State Governor himself has stepped into what is turning to be West Bengal's latest political row after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday transferred police commissioner Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda. ...
11:27 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Two days after a policeman was shot dead during a clash between student activists, the West Bengal government on Thursday shifted out Kolkata police chief Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda for failure to apprehend the criminals, replacing him with Surajit Kar Purakayastha. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Kolkata Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda was removed from his post on Thursday, after the death of a policeman during clashes between Congress and Trinamool party workers at a college election in the city two days ago. Sources said that Surajit Kar Purakayastha, ADG, Law and Order, is likely to replace him. ...
07:31 PM, Feb 14, 2013
A day after a police sub inspector was killed and four students were injured in firing outside Hari Mohan College in Kolkata, the police have arrested 12 people. The accused including the main shooter will be produced in Alipore court on Wednesday. ...
01:47 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Countering her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's strong pitch for industrialisation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday reiterated her government's stand of not "forcibly" acquiring land except for setting up railway lines and roads. ...
02:39 AM, Feb 13, 2013
A police sub inspector was killed and four students injured in firing outside a college in Kolkata. The incident occurred when workers of the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) broke out into a scuffle outside Hari Mohan College during the filing of nomination papers for the student elections. As many as four people have been arrested. ...
07:34 PM, Feb 12, 2013
The Trinamool Congress will join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) if it performs well in the 2014 general elections, former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattcharjee said on Sunday. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 11, 2013
In a yet another instance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday allegedly lost her cool in public and threatened to slap a photojournalist at the sidelines of an event in Panagarh in Burdwan district. ...
06:45 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Minister of State for Railways, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary, has denied vandalism in Murshidabad and claimed that he and Congress workers did nothing untoward, though an FIR has been registered with regard to the ransack at the residence of the District Magistrate. ...
06:36 PM, Feb 08, 2013
In a shocking incident in West Bengal, workers of the Congress party trashed the home of the District Magistrate of Murshidabad, led by no less than Union Minister of State for Railways, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary. He further defended himself saying the DM had affronted state Congress leaders and the rampaging workers were within their rights. ...
11:56 PM, Feb 07, 2013
