Matigara: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said that with the coming of the Mamata Banerjee government, West Bengal has moved from one dictatorship to another. "It is the mistake of the people that the state has moved from one dictatorship ("tanashahi") by the Left Front to another dictatorship by the Trinamool Congress," Ramesh told Congress party workers here in Siliguri subdivision of Darjeeling district. Criticising the West...
03:20 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Hyderabad: Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh have decided to go ahead with their statewide shutdown on April 9 despite the government providing some relief from the steep hike in electricity tariff announced last week. Bowing to pressure from the opposition and also a section of its own leaders, the Congress government exempted consumers using 200 units or less a month from the tariff hike. However, the latest relief from the...
12:24 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Kolkata: Kolkata is bracing for roadblocks and traffic jams after a bandh call by the Left-wing Students Federation of India (SFI) in protest against the death of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta. The students will be carrying out protests out at Hazra Modh, which is close to Chief Minister's house. A bandh has also been called in Garia and Tollygunge areas of Kolkata. The West Bengal Human Rights Commission report will...
08:13 AM, Apr 04, 2013
There have been massive protests over the death of 23-year-old Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata. Not just in Kolkata, protests are also being staged in Chennai by SFI activists. The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal has also come under attack from the protesters as well as the Left Front. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Protesters took to the streets in New Delhi and Chennai after a Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta was killed in Kolkata allegedly by the police during a crackdown in the city on Wednesday. The police tried to stop the demonstrators as they chanted slogans and marched with Gupta's posters. ...
05:05 PM, Apr 03, 2013
There have been massive protests over the death of 23-year-old Students Federation of India activist Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata. Not just in Kolkata, protests are also being staged in Chennai by SFI activists. The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal has also come under attack from the protesters as well as the Left Front. ...
01:17 PM, Apr 03, 2013
The death of a 23-year-old Student Federation of India activist, Sudipto Gupta, allegedly injured in a police crackdown in Kolkata, has triggered protests. The death has also yet again raised several questions over violence and law and order issues in Mamata Banerjee's West Bengal. ...
08:27 AM, Apr 03, 2013
The Election Commission and the West Bengal government are at loggerheads over the dates of the coming Panchayat elections in the state. The Calcutta High Court will hear the Election Commission's petition to quash the state government's notification. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wants elections in two phases as opposed to three. ...
09:08 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Citing law and order problems in West Bengal, the Congress on Saturday said it was imperative to conduct the upcoming panchayat (rural body) polls under the strict vigil of central security forces for free and fair elections. ...
04:40 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday attacked the State Election Commission, with which it is engaged in a tussle over the panchayat poll, of being 'biased' in favour of the opposition parties and accused the erstwhile Left Front government of doubling the tenure of the present election commissioner to derive political benefit. ...
02:47 AM, Mar 30, 2013
The Opposition Left Front on Thursday alleged that the West Bengal government had 'messed up' the ensuing Panchayat polls and said if the election was not held on time it would be the responsibility of the ruling Trinamool Congress. ...
03:26 AM, Mar 29, 2013
Firing a fresh salvo at the state poll panel, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress on Sunday accused its chief of favouring the Left Front and trying to defer the upcoming rural polls to save it from "an inevitable defeat". Opposition parties flayed the comments. ...
04:50 AM, Mar 11, 2013
The Congress and BJP are caught in another war over alleged attempts to access BJP leader Arun Jaitley's phone records. While the Congress has blamed it on BJP infighting, the BJP has said it couldn't have happened without the government's co-operation. However, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that though Jaitley's call records were sought, they were not provided. ...
12:44 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Jubilant over the ruling Left Fronts's victory in Tripura for the fifth straight term, the CPI(M) in Assam took out a victory procession through the main thoroughfares of Guwahati on Thursday. ...
06:45 PM, Feb 28, 2013
It was a repeat of the 2008 Assembly elections in the three northeast states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya as the incumbent parties came to power in all the three states. In Tripura, the CPI(M) registered its fifth consecutive victory with wins in 49 seats. In Nagaland, the Naga Peoples Front retained power with wins in 37 seats. In Meghalaya, the Congress emerged as the single largest party with wins...
06:09 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The return of the CPI(M)-led Left Front in Tripura and Forward Bloc wresting the Nalhati seat from Congress in West Bengal reflects "re-emergence" of the Left parties, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday. "We congratulate the people of Tripura to have given us two-thirds majority for the seventh Left Front government in the state and sixth in a row," he told reporters when his reaction was sought on...
04:03 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The Left Front led by the CPI(M) came to power for a record fifth straight term defeating the Opposition Congress by a huge margin. The CPI(M) won 48 seats in the 60-seat Assembly. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar won the Dhanpur Assembly seat defeating his nearest Congress rival Shah Alam by 6,017 votes. ...
02:00 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The counting of votes began in Tripura amidst tight security and CPI(M) is leading in one seat. ...
08:09 AM, Feb 28, 2013
While the AIADMK and the Left parties accused the government on Wednesday of not doing anything for the Tamils in Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said the government was committed to bringing justice to Lankan Tamils. During the debate on Sri Lankan war crimes in the Rajya Sabha, Khurshid said, "I reiterate the commitment of government to see the end of hostilities in Sri Lanka." ...
02:48 PM, Feb 27, 2013
There were noisy scenes in the Rajya Sabha as the government came under fire from the AIADMK over war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan government in the last days of the crusade against the LTTE in 2009. The AIADMK's V Maitreyan lashed out at the government for not doing anything for the people of Tamil origin living in Lanka. ...
01:42 PM, Feb 27, 2013
