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Mamata defies state pleas, sends ministers to Lalgarh

Monday 22 June '09

A day after top Maoist leader Kishanji issued an ultimatum to Trinamool Congess chief Mamata Banerjee...
No change a day after ‘liberation’

Monday 22 June '09

Twenty-four hours after the state government claimed that it had liberated the Lalgarh police station and established the rule of law, not much seems to have changed.
Mamata defies Bengal govt pleas, sends two ministers to Lalgarh

Monday 22 June '09

A Day after top Maoist leader Kishanji issued an ultimatum to Trinamool Congess chief Mamata Banerjee to break her “silence” or face a boycott from the people of Lalgarh...
Day 4, both sides offer talks, with condition

Monday 22 June '09

Four days after the operation to end the Maoist takeover of Lalgarh began, there seemed a thaw...
Nandigram on mind, Left Front tells Buddha: act but with caution

Thursday 18 June '09

As Lalgarh continues to boil, Left Front leaders on Wednesday told Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to take “stern and steady but not hasty” action against Maoists.
Mamata lines up her men against CPM

Monday 15 June '09

Eyeing the 2011 Assembly elections, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee has prepared a two-pronged strategy to take on the CPM-led state government.
In slam Buddha season, Mamata pays Jyoti Basu a surprise visit

Sunday 14 June '09

Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday paid an impromptu visit to Jyoti Basu’s Salt Lake residence....
Post-poll violence shadows CPM’s Bengal meet

Friday 12 June '09

The post-poll violence across the state, especially in Khejuri where a number of CPM party offices were torched and ransacked, figured prominently during the first day of the two-day CPM state committee meeting here on Thursday.
Khejuri shadow over CPM’s Bengal meet

Friday 12 June '09

The post-poll violence across the state, especially in Khejuri where a number of CPI(M) party offices were torched and ransacked....
Govt wary of middlemen, to take thumb prints of victims

Saturday 6 June '09

It took 12 days for the state government to realise that relief is not reaching the victims of Aila...
Aila blows quacks into state health system

Thursday 4 June '09

The state government has decided to use the services of village quacks in the Sunderbans for providing medical relief...
Relief work gets political colour

Wednesday 3 June '09

In AILA country, government relief has been given political colour. In remote parts of West Bengal...
In Aila's wake, saline for Rs 70 a bottle, lives are much cheaper

Tuesday 2 June '09

Nine-year-old Sandeepa Gharami survived Cyclone Aila, but succumbed in its aftermath. She died on an embankment near Lahiripur....
In Aila’s wake, saline for Rs 70 a bottle, lives are much cheaper

Tuesday 2 June '09

Nine-year-old Sandeepa Gharami survived Cyclone Aila, but succumbed in its aftermath. She died on an embankment near Lahiripur on Friday...
Aila anger: Mob roughs up BDO, Buddha leaves in a hurry

Monday 1 June '09

Amid complaints of shoddy distribution of relief among victims of cyclone Aila, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had to face angry mobs today at Gosaba in South 24-Parganas...
After cyclone, oneupmanship over relief work storms affected areas

Sunday 31 May '09

The CPM and the Trinamool Congress continued with their efforts on Saturday to outdo each other in the relief work in the cyclone-hit areas.
Days on, Sunderbans still under the weather

Sunday 31 May '09

The devastation caused by cyclone Aila in West Bengal was discussed at the meeting of the Union Cabinet in New Delhi on Saturday.
Rail minister takes boat to nail Left in backwaters

Wednesday 27 May '09

Very much aware of the sensitivity of the situation arising out of the cyclone Aila’s large-scale devastation, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee lost no time to signal that her new responsibility as the country’s Railway Minister would not distract her from Bengal.
Bolstered Trinamool to ‘wait no more’, take violent route in Singur

Wednesday 27 May '09

Bolstered by its Lok Sabha polls success, the Trina-mool Congress is planning an aggressive agitation in Singur....
Mamata 1st day: Passes for poor, train renamed, visit to cyclone-hit

Wednesday 27 May '09

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday assumed charge as the Railway Minister at a brief programme organised at the Sealdah station....
Old storm gathers over Singur again

Tuesday 26 May '09

Emboldened by Trinamool’s success in the Lok Sabha polls, a local committee to save farmland in Singur that enjoys the support of Mamata Banerjee’s party has drawn up plans to storm the area...
Mamata fastens saddle to rein in Buddha govt

Monday 25 May '09

After decimating the Left Front to its worst defeat in over 30 years in Bengal, a confident Trinamool Congress is set to encircle the CPM-led government in the state on various issues.
T for Tapasi not Tata, Singur says no to Left

Monday 25 May '09

The tragedy of Tapasi Malik’s murder in the compound of the Nano car factory, it appears, played a bigger role than the exit of the Tatas from Singur....
Victor Mamata lands home; Singur to take off again

Sunday 24 May '09

With half-a-dozen assured portfolios in the Union Cabinet, apart from the Railways for herself, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee returned home today...
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