Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said that he "did not agree" with the popular perception that his successor in the top post Mamata Banerjee was honest. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Virtually donning the robe of a teacher, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday dictated a list of her government's successes to student leaders of her party, asking them to memorise it. ...
03:40 AM, Feb 05, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the Congress-led central government was talking about the food security bill to hoodwink people before next year's general elections. ...
12:40 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Noted economist and Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen has criticised Muslim groups for raising a hue and cry over author Salman Rushdie's proposed visit to Kolkata for the Literary Meet. Dr Sen, who is attending the Literary Meet, said, "There are a lot of people who are enormously disadvantaged. There are a lot of reasons to complain about other things. I think when Muslim groups are taking up these issues......
07:44 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kakoli Ghosh may have embarrassed her party again. On Sunday, while addressing a public rally, the TMC MP took a swipe at her Congress rival Deepa Dasmunsi and said that dancing and make-up cannot form leaders. "Dancing won't make you a leader. It won't work. You can't say bad things about the TMC. Also, you need to think about humanity," Ghosh said. ...
06:51 PM, Feb 03, 2013
Trinamool Congress leader Sultan Ahmed defended West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying she did nothing wrong in blocking author Salman Rushdie's visit to Kolkata. "There is nothing shameful, I am congratulating the state government for taking the right decision," Ahmed said. ...
01:52 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy on Sunday shocked many with his choice of words at a party rally where he said that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has "gone to hell" and would not be able to return from there. Roy used a Bengali slang to indicate that the CPI(M) had lost its spine and gone to hell. ...
10:08 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Days after a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader courted controversy by throwing wads of currency notes towards skimpily-clad girls dancing at its foundation day event, a freshers' welcome function organised by the party's student wing saw a dancer giving an obscene performance on stage. ...
10:40 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Attributing crib deaths to underweight and malnourished babies, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday labelled the influx of patients from neighbouring Bihar as a problem. "You know what our problem is? Many people from Bihar bring their children for treatment to hospitals in Malda and Murshidabad (districts)," Mamata said while inaugurating a fair price medicine shop here. ...
05:20 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Stepping up her anti-Centre tirade, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh several times to protest against fertiliser price hike but to no avail, and she could not do anymore. ...
05:34 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Stating that "Gujarat can do riots, we can't", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said the western state was flourishing mainly because of the huge funds it was getting from NRIs. ...
04:28 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Accusing West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee of encouraging attacks against CPI(M) leaders and workers, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Saturday claimed that the people of the state have realized the harm done by voting such a party to power. ...
02:20 AM, Jan 20, 2013
The West Bengal government on Saturday announced that allowances introduced by the erstwhile Left Front government for those who suffered during the Naxalite uprising in 1970s, would be discontinued. "Allowances given to political sufferers will be discontinued from now," Finance minister Amit Mitra said about the category 'political sufferers on post-Independent democratic movement' introduced by the Left government. ...
05:27 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Crowds protested outside a police station in West Bengal's Hoogly district after a Trinamool Congress (TMC) activist died in custody due to alleged torture by police. Relatives of the 30-year-old Kazi Nasiruddin, along with locals surrounded the police station and pelted stones at it. ...
05:10 PM, Jan 19, 2013
A police complaint was filed against a college student in Kolkata on Saturday for sharing cartoons of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on his Facebook account. "A police complaint has been filed by Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TC students wing) against Ram Nayan Choudhury for circulating cartoons indicting Chief Minister in it," officer of Bidhan Nagar (north) police station Santanu Kar said. "We are investigating the case," Kar added. ...
03:50 PM, Jan 19, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that there might have been "one or two incidents" of crime against women in the state and criticised political rivals and the media for claiming that they were feeling "unsafe". ...
11:38 AM, Jan 19, 2013
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan on Thursday said the Mamata Banerjee government has to find out a "suitable solution" to the land acquisition problem and reminded it of the "major responsibility" to restore confidence in industrialists. ...
02:45 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Being termed as West Bengal's Gujarat Summit, which wrapped up after a successful show on Saturday last week, the Trinamool government's Bengal Leads Conclave is set to begin at the industrial town of Haldia on Tuesday. The second edition of the three-day industrial fair is intended to showcase the town as a prime industrial destination. ...
08:32 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Assailing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for using Swami Vivekananada's name to publicise her Trinamool Congress' political slogan, the CPI-M on Monday accused her of distorting the monk's teachings for furthering her political interests. ...
12:35 AM, Jan 15, 2013
The CPI-M on Sunday said the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government was now making desperate efforts to placate Governor MK Narayanan since it was now afraid of being "red-carded" by the central government. ...
12:52 AM, Jan 14, 2013
