Saturday 27 June '09
After the Congress -Trinamool combine reaped electoral success in the recent Lok Sabha elections in Bengal, much of which was attributed to the Left Front’s government faulty handling of land acquisition in Nandigram and Singur...Thursday 25 June '09
The state government has turned down a request from the State Election Commission for deployment of paramilitary forces to provide security for the June 28 civic polls.Wednesday
24 June '09Even though Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya has claimed that the Examiner of Local Accounts — a wing of the Comptroller and Auditor General...Monday
22 June '09The Left Front Government’s hesitation following the LS poll debacle in acquiring land for industrial or infrastructural projects has cost it a major infrastructural project in Kolkata.Saturday
20 June '09The Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s budget for the current financial year has jumped by Rs 1,000 crore.Thursday
18 June '09The CPM’s discomfort with land acquisition after facing an electoral reverse in the Lok Sabha elections has forced it to ask the Left Front-run board of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to put a pause on the Rs 500-crore slum development projects.Wednesday
17 June '09A day after a group of Trinamool councillors staged a protest in front of Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya’s office, civic officials on Tuesday claimed that the acute water crisis faced by south Kolkata is nothing new.Friday
12 June '09Even as the Congress and Trinamool Congress alliance achieved a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls, internal disputes between the two parties at grassroots level have started reflecting in the upcoming municipal polls.Monday
8 June '09The visit of the much-awaited Central team to the cyclone-affected areas fell short of expectations as the team could manage to visit only two places, though they were expected to visit ten villages in Sunderbans.Monday
1 June '09Around 400 houses were flooded in Chowbhaga when a contractor involved in the Rs 51-crore Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project (KEIP) allegedly ran away from the project site after the Aila alert last Monday...Monday
1 June '09With all faith lost in the administration, the People’s Committee against the Police Atrocity (PCPA) has taken several developmental projects worth Rs 40 lakh in the villages in Lalgarh...Monday
25 May '09The state government’s plan to meet the July 31 deadline extended by the Calcutta High Court to convert all the two-stroke engine autos running in the Kolkata Municipal Area to four-stroke CNG or LPG ones has gone awry.Friday
22 May '09Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee may be tipped for the top seat in Rail Bhavan, but some of the flop projects that she pushed through during her earlier stint as Railway Minister in the NDA regime could return to haunt her.Monday
18 May '09With the CPM winning the elections by a huge margin in the tribal belt of West Midnapore, Purulia and pockets of north Bengal...Friday
15 May '09Around 70 per cent polling was reported in 100 booths of Mandirbazar Assembly segment in the Mathurapur parliamentary constituency on Thursday.Friday
8 May '09On Thursday, during the second phase of polls in the state, 126 EVMs had to be replaced owing to technical snags. In the first phase, 101 machines had to be replaced.Wednesday
6 May '09With the central observers in Bengal making “expensive” demands, the office of the state chief electoral officer is facing a tough time in meeting them.Friday
1 May '09Despite several initiatives taken by the Election Commission and the district administration, around 30,000 eligible voters from the remote villages in Lalgarh block did not cast their votes on Thursday.Friday
1 May '09When 72-year-old Ashutosh Das left his home at 7:30 on Thursday....Monday
27 April '09With the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) having successfully barred police entry and taking over the job of maintaining law and order in Lalgarh...Monday
27 April '09With tribals constituting nearly 60 per cent of the total 12,40,580 voters in Jhargram parliamentary constituency, the eight candidates in the fray are devising ways to cash in on the tribal uprising to garner votes.Saturday
18 April '09More than 50,000 offenders with non-bailable warrants (NBW) issued against them are absconding, even as the Election Commission had asked the state government to execute all the cases of pending NBWs before the Lok Sabha polls in Bengal.Thursday
16 April '09Nandigram is back in the news, and once again for all the wrong reasons.Wednesday
15 April '09Chief Electoral Officer Debashis Sen has asked all district magistrates to submit a report on how many FIRs have been lodged till date...Saturday
11 April '09The state government has not acted on an Election Commission directive to transfer senior police officers from election related duties for allegedly having a bias towards the ruling party.
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