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
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday cancelled her meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, citing ill health, highly placed sources said in Delhi. "She was supposed to meet the prime minister. But it was cancelled as she was not well," a highly placed source said. Sources said her blood pressure had gone down so she had to cancel the meet. The chief minister had earlier faced...
03:13 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday registered a case against unknown persons for manhandling West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission office here. While no arrest has been made yet in the incident, Police registered the case under IPC Sections 186(obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty). The unknwon persons also...
01:15 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
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11:24 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Tuesday registered a case against unknown persons for manhandling West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission office in the capital. While no arrest has been made yet in the incident, Police registered the case under IPC Sections 186(obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty). The unknown...
11:14 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee fell ill and was administered oxygen while her Finance Minister Amit Mitra was put under observation in AIIMS for some medical tests, hours after they were heckled by an angry mob of SFI activists outside the Planning Commission office. Sources close to Banerjee said she cancelled her meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the evening as she was not feeling well....
10:38 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
New Delhi: As Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi sought to reach out to her, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday deflected questions on the possibilities of her party's tie-up with BJP. "Whatever I have come to know, he (Modi) appreciated the government. Political differences could be there but a government's work can be appreciated by anyone," she said. Banerjee was asked to respond to the praise heaped by...
08:02 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
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. ...
06:24 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
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
