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10:39 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, undergoing medical treatment for the last three days, was today discharged from the Belle Vue Clinic after agreeing to advice by doctors to take rest. "The chief minister was insisting on returning home since morning and her doctors decided to discharge her with a request to her to take rest," clinic's CEO PK Tondon told PTI. Quoting the chief minister he said she...
08:45 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Kolkata: Efforts were being made to downplay the 'attack' on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and finance minister Amit Mitra by projecting the Presidency incident, the Trinamool Congress claimed on Saturday and reiterated the demand for an impartial inquiry into the vandalism. Stating that the party had condemned both the April 9 'attack' on Banerjee and the finance minister and the vandalism at Presidency University a day after, TMC Secretary General...
06:51 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Kolkata: The CPI(M)-led Left Front on Friday demanded immediate steps against attacks on its party offices and workers in West Bengal following the heckling of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and manhandling of state finance minister Amit Mitra in Delhi on April 9, 2013. "Arson, loot, ransacking and physical assault of party leaders have been reported from many areas," the Front said in a letter to the state Home Secretary Basudeb...
02:45 AM, Apr 13, 2013
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11:29 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: Two days after Presidency University was vandalised by alleged Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan addressed students at the campus and started by apologising for the incident. Meanwhile, five people, including Shubhojeet Burman, whose mother has admitted he is a Trinamool student wing member, have been arrested. "I have failed you as a Governor, I have failed you as a chancellor. There are others who have...
09:27 PM, Apr 12, 2013
A freak 18-vehicle pile-up in Mumbai left two people dead and six injured. ...
09:21 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday rang up Presidency University Vice-Chancellor Malabika Sarkar and said she was devastated by the vandalism at the Baker Laboratory on April 10. "Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called me up. She said that she was devastated by the incident as Presidency University is a dream project. She expressed her grief over what happened," Sarkar told students of the university during an interactive...
08:03 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Making it clear that it will go alone in West Bengal, the Congress on Friday cautioned its estranged ally Mamata Banerjee that the "loss will only be hers", as in the past, if she joins hands with the BJP. Responding to questions whether Mamata was inching closer to the BJP, AICC in-charge for West Bengal Shakeel Ahmed tersely said, "If she will join hands with the BJP again,...
07:59 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Siliguri: Forty six CPI-M activists, including a former MP, were on Friday sent to judicial custody till April 18 in connection with the clashes with cadres of the Trinamool Congress in Siliguri on Wednesday. The activists had been arrested following the ruckus, however, two Left leaders, Ashok Bhattacharya and Jibesh Sarkar, were released on Thursday after night-long detention. Five women councillors were also released on bail on Thursday. ...
06:29 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's condition was improving with relief from pain and slight improvement in blood pressure, a medical bulletin said on Friday. Her pulse rate continued to be low and she was examined by cardiologist SK Biswas at the premiere Belle Vue clinic, where she was admitted to. Mamata, whose health was reviewed by members of the medical consortium headed by Subroto Maitra, was advised to...
05:53 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: An emotional West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan on Friday addressed the students of the Presidency University and said sorry for the violence that had taken place two days ago on its campus. "I want to assure the students that this will never happen again. You, especially the girl students, come to the University to build your future, not to fend off goons. I am sorry this happened," the Chancellor...
05:35 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: The battle between the Trinamool Congress and the students of the Presidency University is getting uglier. Five people including a TMC worker have been arrested for ransacking the Presidency University. The TMC has now filed a counter-complaint against the activists of Students' Federation of India in the Presidency University for provoking them. Two Presidency University students named in the FIR have surrendered, but are expected to be out on...
02:17 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: Two days after the attack on the Presidency University in Kolkata by alleged Trinamool Congress workers, four people, including a TMC worker, have been arrested. Those arrested are Shubhojeet Burman, Jayanta Haldar, Vishal Jaiswal and Pushkar Kumar Das. In the first clear admission of a TMC hand in the ransack, the mother of Shubhojeet Burman, one of those arrested, has acknowledged that her son is a Trinamool worker. All...
01:15 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: Two days after the attack on the Presidency University in Kolkata by alleged Trinamool Congress workers, two people have been arrested and three have been detained. Those arrested are Shubhojeet Burman and Jayanta Haldar and both are not students of the Presidency University. Meanwhile, the West Bengal Governor is now caught in a political crossfire between the Left and the TMC after he asked the CPM to apologise for...
10:44 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Kolkata: Senior Trinamool Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee on Thursday hinted at an 'invisible' Congress hand behind the heckling of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and manhandling of Finance Minister Amit Mitra in Delhi on April 9. "It should be looked into if an invisible hand of Congress worked behind CPM and SFI hooliganism against the CM, Amit Mitra and I," Mukherjee, the Panchayat Minister, who was present during the...
12:47 AM, Apr 12, 2013
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11:32 PM, Apr 11, 2013
A day after the attack on Presidency University by alleged Trinamool Congress supporters, students and the faculty marched in protest in Kolkata. ...
11:28 PM, Apr 11, 2013
The staff and students of Presidency University in Kolkata on Thursday submitted a memorandum to West Bengal Governor over the attack on their campus a day ago by suspected Trinamool Congress youth wing workers. ...
11:20 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler broke his silence, a day after a Delhi court rejected the CBI clean chit to him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Tytler said he will not take any party post till he's cleared of all charges. ...
09:32 PM, Apr 11, 2013
