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
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday reacted to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's address to Bengal Inc by saying he should first woo his own ally Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. "Besides moving around the country, Modi should worry about his ally Nitish Kumar. The United States is not giving him a visa. He is paying their ministers to come to Gujarat and Nitish is not allowing him to come...
01:42 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been on an overdrive for the past one week addressing various meets to articulate his views on various issues before the country and his vision and ideas to make India a developed country. He has used the different platforms to project himself a workaholic, visionary and a leader who has thew vision to transform India. While Modi hit out at Congress Vice President...
12:49 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: 12:15 pm: Modi says public and private partnership in the health sector will be beneficial in future. "In our country if a child falls into a tubewell, there is 24-hour running commentary. One child's misfortune has the entire country in tears but when in our neighbourhood, a mother dies while giving birth, no one seems to care," says the Gujarat Chief Minister. 12:04 pm: Modi hits out at the...
11:45 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal panchayat polls case will come for for hearing in the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday. The State Election Commission and the West Bengal government are at loggerheads. Mamata Banerjee's government has proposed May 5 and May 8 as the new dates for panchayat polls but the EC wants to conduct polls in 3 phases. The state government moved an application before the court of Justice Biswanath...
08:37 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be meeting Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the allocation of funds for her state for 2013. Mamata hopes to get a hike of 25 per cent in the plan size compared to 2012's 16 percent. Mamata is also scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the CPI(M) claimed the trip...
07:29 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: When Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee engages with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the national capital seeking financial assistance for debt-stressed West Bengal on Tuesday, her Gujarat counterpart and BJP poster boy Narendra Modi will have a much-awaited interface with Bengal industry captains in Kolkata. Bengal Inc is set to hear from Modi, who arrives on Monday night, the success story of his state when the flamboyant Gujarat chief minister...
06:25 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: Ahead of her two-day visit to Delhi, West Bengal's Left Front on Monday accused Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee of looking at opportunities to realign with the Congress - its former coalition partner. "Her visit is an attempt at bargaining with the centre, to reinforce the alliance that had broken, thinking that it would help her party in the next Lok Sabha elections," said Leader of...
05:29 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she had never sought a special package for her state and asserted that her two-day visit to Delhi starting on Monday had no political agenda. "I am not begging, neither am I demanding a special package (for West Bengal). But I want to know why Bengal is continuously being deprived. Despite all the problems that we are facing, Bengal is number one...
04:53 PM, Apr 08, 2013
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
Kolkata: Academicians from across the country on Saturday expressed "horror" at the "brutal" police assault on students leading to the death of SFI leader Sudipta Gupta in police custody and demanded an "impartial" probe into the incident. In a statement, 45 educationists from leading institutes like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Punjab University and Viswa Bharati University condemned the "unprovoked singular attack" on a "peaceful" students demonstration. The scholars said they...
01:59 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Kolkata: Family members of Students Federation of India (SFI) leader Sudipto Gupta on Friday expressed disgust over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dubbing his death in police custody as a "petty" and "small" matter, and alleged he was "murdered" by police. "This is murder. The bus driver has reportedly said that he (Gupta) was forced out of the vehicle and beaten up. There were so many injury marks on...
04:30 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Kolkata: The bus driver who was accused of rash and negligent driving leading to the death of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta on Friday denied the allegations against him. He claimed that he was being framed by the Kolkata Police. The police had arrested Raja Das alleging that negligence on his part had led to Sudipto's death. Eyewitnesses, however, have a different story to tell. They have squarely blamed the police...
05:32 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Kolkata: The family of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta is expected to meet West Bengal Governor on Friday. Sudipto was killed after being allegedly beaten up by police during a crackdown on a SFI protest earlier this week. Citing dissatisfaction with police investigations, his family has demanded a CBI probe. The police, however, insists that Sudipto died after hitting a lamp post. To back up their claims, the Kolkata Police on...
05:17 PM, Apr 05, 2013
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