New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said she will fly back to Kolkata on Wednesday itself and has cancelled all her meetings in Delhi. She said she was advised by doctors to get hospitalised but she did not want to be hospitalised. "I was given oxygen whole night on Tuesday, the doctor advised me to get hospitalised, but I don't like to get hospitalised," Mamata said. Mamata...
01:51 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed regret over the protest faced by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Left activists outside the Planning Commission's office in Delhi. Singh spoke to Mamata after her office called up the PMO to cancel the meeting scheduled with him on Tuesday evening, sources close to the chief minister said on Wednesday. The West Bengal Chief Minister had sought cancellation of the...
11:28 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: 3:20 pm: Even as the TMC and the Left leaders appealed for calm, there were reports of violence. TMC and CPM supporters clashed in the Presidency University in Kolkata and a few students were reportedly injured in the clashed. TMC supporters reportedly ransacked labs at the Presidency University. 2:10 pm: Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien has called the attack on Mamata Banerjee and Amit Mitra a 'pre-planned' one....
10:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal's politics of violence reached the national capital on Tuesday as Students Federation of India activists manhandled State Finance Minster Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission. While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was angered by the incident, Trinamool Congress workers went on a rampage in Kolkata and plan a statewide protest on Wednesday even as the CPM has condemned the violence of its student affiliate body. Mamata...
08:07 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Kolkata: With Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi echoing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's view on UPA's alleged apathy towards non-Congress states and misdeeds of the Left, BJP on Tuesday night said sympathising with Banerjee's view did not mean extending olive branch to her before Lok Sabha polls. "Some channels are showing that Modi has extended an olive branch to Mamata. But the fact is Modi has sympathised with the...
12:17 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tried to woo West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by indirectly hitting out at the previous Left government in Bengal. He said that Bengal has suffered a lot due to 32 years of misgovernance, and added that, "I believe steps are being taken in the right direction in Bengal but it will take many years." He said Bengal was also being discriminated against just like ...
11:54 PM, Apr 09, 2013
In retaliation against SFI protest against Mamata in Delhi, Trinamool Congress workers ransack CPM office in various places in West Bengal. ...
11:45 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday taunted the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with a claim that it comes out with official response to issues raised by him during any speech even before he concludes it. "I have been observing off late. Wherever I make any speech, even before my speech gets over, the PMO tweets answers to it. From the PMO!" he told a programme organised by state...
10:56 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Planning Commission on Tuesday approved West Bengal's annual Plan of Rs 30,314 for the current fiscal, which is 17 per cent higher than the outlay for 2012-13, meeting the state's expectations. The annual plan size of Rs 30,314 crore was approved after a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the capital. The Rs 30,314-crore Plan size...
10:31 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi continued his offensive against the UPA government on Tuesday. ...
09:24 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The battle between West Bengal's warring political parties, the Trinamool Congress and the CPM, reached New Delhi on Tuesday as suspected SFI activists heckled a TMC minister outside the Planning Commission building and an angry Mamata Banerjee blamed it on CPM's "dirty politics". As the protesters chanted "Mamata Banerjee hai hai (Mamata down down), TMC hai hai, Hatyari Mamata sharm karo (have shame, killer Mamata)", an agitated Chief...
09:00 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Questioning the 'certificates' given to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by her Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi, the Congress on Tuesday wondered if there was a secret "nexus" between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP. "What is the actual purpose of Modi's visit to Kolkata and why is Mamata Banerjee away? Whatever it may be, we feel there is a nexus between the two parties," WBPCC President Pradip Bhattacharya...
06:50 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi continued his offensive against the UPA government on Tuesday. Addressing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in Kolkata, the likely Prime Ministerial candidate of the party ripped apart the rival Congress and Left parties through his powerful oratory. Modi alleged that the UPA was the most hated government since Independence and that "32 years of Left rule" had brought West Bengal to ruins. Modi did...
06:05 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra was heckled by activists of Students Federation of India (SFI) in Delhi on Tuesday as he tried to enter the Yojna Bhawan. SFI activists shouted slogans against him and pushed him while policemen tried to pull him out of the crowd. Upset with the protests, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had accompanied Mitra, vented her ire by blaming the Left...
04:08 PM, Apr 09, 2013
As Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tried to woo West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari said, "The West Bengal Chief Minister like other political parties do understand the fundamental political fact that people are with secularism. The politicians have to decide where they want to stand between secularim and communalism." ...
03:34 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday side-stepped questions on his Prime Ministerial ambitions, saying he is an "apolitical person". "I am not a politician," he said, when asked by a questioner at a programme about the desire of politicians to aim for the top political post and what was his attitude about it. "A politician may have (the desire to become Prime Minister) but I am not a...
02:49 PM, Apr 09, 2013
A day after wooing the industry in Delhi, Gujarat Chief Minister shifted his attention to West Bengal on Tuesday where he is on a day-long visit. Addressing a joint session of three Bengal chambers of commerce, Modi reached out to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, praising her for taking the steps to reverse the effects of 32 years of Left rule. ...
02:25 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: In a shocking case of mob justice in Asansol in West Bengal, five children were allegedly tied to bamboo poles and kept in a hut overnight for alleged theft. The children were aged between 10 and 12 years. But the ordeal didn't end there as the next morning, the children were paraded in the streets, beaten up with electric wires and their heads were shaved off. All this took...
02:14 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the central government was engulfed by policy paralysis and it was on "borrowed time". "It (UPA government) is not watching the calender, but the clock. It is on borrowed time," Modi said at a programme jointly organised here by three city-based chambers of commerce. Modi, who is widely being perceived as the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, accused the Centre of policy...
01:58 PM, Apr 09, 2013
