A youth was quizzed by police on Sunday after he asked a minister why Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee did not visit a slum in West Bengal where 700 shanties were destroyed in fire on Saturday. The incident happened during Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim's visit to Sholo Bigha slum in the Maheshtala Santoshpur area of South 24-Parganas where a blaze had rendered 1,500 people homeless on Saturday morning. ...
11:28 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Two days after violent clashes between the Trinamool and the Congress student union members claimed the life of a police sub-inspector and amidst allegations that TMC minister Firhad Hakim was shielding the accused, the Bengal governor MK Narayanan on Thursday said that ministers must not interfere in such cases. ...
04:47 PM, Feb 14, 2013
CAB and state government are set on a collision course on the issue of new national selector from East Zone. ...
06:26 PM, Sep 12, 2012
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress is not dependent on the Congress, rather the Congress is anxiously waiting for its decision on presidential election, a senior minister in the Mamata Banerjee government on Sunday claimed. "We are not dependent on Congress, rather the Congress is eagerly waiting for our decision on Presidential poll," Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim said. Flaying Congress MP Adhir Chowdhury's denunciation of Mamata's negative stand...
01:16 AM, Jun 18, 2012
Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress minister on Saturday said ally Congress was free to quit the Mamata Banerjee ministry government in West Bengal. "Congress is free to leave the government if they want," Firhad Hakim said on the sidelines of a meeting in Howrah. Referring to WBPCC President Pradip Bhattacharya's threat to withdraw Congress ministers from the government after Mamata's rejection of UPA presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee, Hakim said "such a...
04:28 AM, Jun 17, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) minister Firhad Hakim on Saturday said that Congress is free to leave the government in West Bengal. The statement came after the West Bengal Congress said that they would like to exit the state government after TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee's decision to not support Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's candidature for the post of President. Mamata is still defiant on supporting former president APJ Abdul Kalam...
04:19 PM, Jun 16, 2012
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee was on foot again to the Writers' Buildings - and this time she caused a flutter by turning up for work on a Saturday - something the staff at the state secretariat are not used to. Apart from holding meetings with her ministers, Banerjee utilised the day touring the different blocks of the building and seeing things for herself at the State's power citadel. The West Bengal...
06:49 AM, May 22, 2011
