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
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had earlier objected on certain issues, has a 'positive mind' towards the National Counter Terrorism Centre. ...
04:48 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Three more people were arrested and produced before court in connection with the Garden Reach shooting case. Sub-inspector Tapas Chowdhury was killed in the Congress, Trinamool Congress clashes that broke out during student elections at a college. ...
02:30 PM, Feb 16, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called an emergency high level meeting at Writers' Buildings to review the worsening law and order situation in the state following clashes between Trinamool Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) supporters. The meeting is being attended by the state chief and home secretaries as well as the state DGP and senior police officers. ...
03:01 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Kolkata: Ruling Trinamool Congress MLAs were involved in a fistfight with their Left Front counterparts inside the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday. The shameful incident took place when the Left Front moved an adjournment motion over the state government's alleged failure to curb chit funds in the state. After West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee rejected the Left Front's plea for an adjournment motion, MLAs from the two sides came...
02:14 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader and Union Law & Justice and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has taken on Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee over her protest at Janatar Mantar in New Delhi against foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail. Claiming that Mamata's support base is limited to West Bengal, Khurshid said that her views on economic reforms are different from those of the Congress's. "There was stress on us when...
11:33 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: After her 72-hour deadline and an over three-hour long meeting in Kolkata with Trinamool Congress MPs and leaders, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday finally walked out of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government. Mamata Banerjee took the decision to pull out of the UPA after meeting her party leaders, which was attended by all the MPs including the six ministers belonging to the Trinamool Congress...
08:35 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Government is in a bind over the increasing fuel prices as several UPA constituents are opposed to the move. Even as state-run oil companies like Hindustan Petroleum, Bharat Petroleum and Indian Oil Corporation say they are losing around Rs 15/litre on sale of diesel and approximately, incurring losses of Rs 200 crore each day on sale of this fuel, political pressure may force the government to...
01:05 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the latest hike of petrol price "without consulting allies" and demanded its immediate rollback till a long-term policy evolves after consulting all political parties. "We have learnt from news reports that there has been a fresh hike in petrol prices. We do not support this. We are deeply unhappy. TC will protest it," Banerjee said. She...
11:09 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-backed presidential candidate PA Sangma on Wednesday said he holds no grudge against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for supporting Pranab Mukherjee in the race to Rashtrapati Bhavan. "In politics everyone has their right to decide who they will back... I don't have any grudge," Sangma told a news channel. "She (Mamata Banerjee) has every right to decide for her party, I have nothing to...
03:50 PM, Jul 18, 2012
New Delhi: Hours before UPA meet on vice presidential election on Saturday, Railway Minister Mukul Roy said the Trinamool Congress (TMC) will clarify its stand "at an appropriate moment". "Our party will speak at an appropriate moment... There is no need for an individual to speak," said Roy. Roy is likely to represent Trinamool at the United Progressive Alliance meet to be held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's official residence....
02:30 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Kolkata: With the Trinamool Congress still undecided on whom to support in the July 19 presidential election, two influential Congress MPs on Monday urged the Congress high command to break the alliance with Mamata Banerjee's party and allow Congress to go it alone in West Bengal. Emerging from a meeting with UPA presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee in Kolkata on Monday, Congress MPs Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Deepa Dasmunshi lashed out...
05:19 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday batted for FDI in retail downplaying Mamata's Banerjee remarks disapproving the measure and said that a number of Chief Ministers across party lines would not be making a pitch for it had it not been in the interest of the country. "I do not think there is really any need to go into the specifics of objections, which a particular political party may or...
09:34 PM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: With her decision to back APJ Abdul Kalam for the post of President of India, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has proved once again that virtually no politician in India understands people's minds as well as she can. The West Bengal chief minister may have suffered a short-term setback within her political network by losing the support of the Samajwadi Party and finding herself isolated in the UPA....
01:01 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on expressed the hope that TMC chief Mamata Banerjee will accept the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee for the post of President like other UPA partners. "People give their candidature. After that whatever decision is taken with consensus everybody accepts it. Mamata is our very senior leader and we hope that she will also accept it. If everybody agrees, the whole coalition agrees then I think she will...
03:42 PM, Jun 16, 2012
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