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Kolkatta: President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee has been selected as the Congress candidate for next month’s bypoll to the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. The seat was held by Mukherjee senior till his elevation to the presidency. The bypoll will be held on Oct 10 and counting…
Kolkata: Key UPA ally and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that she was unhappy and astonished at the diesel price hike and the decision on LPG and demanded immediate rollback. “We are unhappy and astonished that inspite of the formation of the UPA coordination committee after a long…
Kolkata: Congress, which is a junior partner in Trinamool Congress-led government in West Bengal, does not require the ally to stand on its own feet, WBPCC President Pradip Bhattacharya said on Wednesday. “Congress is not lost in Bengal and it does not require TMC as it can stand on its own…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee figures in the list of 50 most influential people in the world of finance as rated by Bloomberg Markets magazine. “Her Trinamool Congress party, part of the ruling coalition, has stalled Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s economic reform agenda by opposing foreign retailers. Banerjee, 57,…
Loading image. Please wait WB to provide shelter to Assam refugees Kolkata: West Bengal would shelter those fleeing the riots in Assam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s attention has been drawn to the violence in the neighbouring state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday. …
Former judge Calcutta HC and ex-Lokayukta Samaresh Banerjee and his wife were allegedly threatened and abused over phone on Wednesday and Thursday by anonymous callers posing as journalists, police said on Friday. “The person threatened that I will be falsely implicated in a rape case,” said the ex-judge. His fault? He criticised…
New Delhi: CPM leader Basudeb Acharia today utilised a discussion on human rights to put in the dock West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on a range of issues, including the recent controversial arrest of a farmer for asking her a question. With no Trinamool Congress member present in the Lok Sabha, Acharia…
Former Supreme Court Judge Santosh Hegde today slammed West BengalChief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her corruption in the judiciary remarks, saying it was ‘unbecoming’ of her to level such charges. “It is not right to make unsubstantiated allegations by one constitutional authority over another. It is unbecoming of a Chief Minister to hurl such allegations,” he told at media…
KOLKATA: The West Bengal Human Rights Commission on Monday asked the Mamata Banerjee government to compensate Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and his neighbour Subrata Sengupta with Rs 50,000 each in connection with the “cartoon fiasco”. It has also recommended departmental proceedings against two policemen of East Jadavpur police station…
Siladitya Chowdhury, who was dubbed a Maoist by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and arrested after he asked her a question during a rally, was on Monday denied bail by a local court. The bail petition was moved by Chowdhury’s counsel Aswini Mondal at the Jhargram sub-divisional court which…
A day after a man was arrested for asking questions at her rally, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee came under fire from various quarters — including Press Council of India chairman justice Markendey Katju and the BJP. On Sunday, Katju called her “dictatorial, intolerant and whimsical” and said she…
Athlete Pinki Pramanik, who was suspended from her job in Eastern Railway following allegations of rape against her, has resumed work. The suspension came as per service rules that say an employee is deemed to be suspended if he or she spends 48 hours in police custody. After the grant…
