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Trinamool Congress is said to be keen on proposing the name of former West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi as its choice as the Vice Presidential candidate. The name of Krishna Bose, former Lok Sabha member and niece of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, is also being floated by the…
Three new trains were on Wednesday flagged off by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who also announced a slew of development programmes for Cooch Behar district in north Bengal. Banerjee flagged off the New Cooch Behar-New Jalpaiguri Intercity Express, Bamanhat-New Jalpaiguri-Siliguri DEMU service and New Jalpaiguri-Howrah Shatabdi Express by remote control from…
Loading image. Please wait Warden held for atrocious punishment Kolkata: The West Bengal police on Monday arrested the hostel warden of Visva-Bharati's Patha Bhavan School for allegedly forcing a class 5 student to drink her urine as a punishment for bedwetting…
Loading image. Please wait Cong downplays Mamata's opposition to FDI New Delhi : 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…
Loading image. Please wait Pranab is a friend of Communists: Trinamool Kolkata : A Trinamool Congress leader Sunday said that UPA presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee has been a close friend of the Communists throughout his life."He (Mukherjee) owes a lot to CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) and Left Front.…
West Bengal rights panel directive to State Home Secretary & DGP, Health Department Taking cognisance of the complaint filed by a civil rights group of ill-treatment of international athlete Pinki Pramanik by the police and the administration, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) has sought a report from…
In an effort to bring UPA's key ally Trinamool Congress on board, Congress has renewed its appeal to the party to support the candidature of UPA's nominee Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential poll. "Trinamool Congress is our strong ally and they are also in the UPA government. We hope…
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has said that the final decision on her party's stand on Presidential election would be taken three days before the polling date on 19th July. …
Presidential candidate P. A. Sangma today met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to seek Trinamool Congress’ support in the election for the top post, but the party was non-committal, saying that there was “no hurry” to take a decision…
Stung by the Calcutta High Court verdict, political activists and the civil society on Saturday adopted a resolution in Kolkata that every effort would be made to return the land to the unwilling farmers of Singur. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool leaders like Subrata Bakshi, Purnendu Bose and Bratya…
The Calcutta high court on Friday held the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 as unconstitutional and void. A division bench of the high court gave the verdict on Tata Motors’ appeal against a single judge order. Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and Mrinal Kanti Chowdhury set aside an earlier…
