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Bengal puts Bt Brinjal on the backburner

Friday 20 November '09

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has virtually said no to the commercial production of Bt Brinjal in the state.
In season of errors, CM makes all efforts to be right

Wednesday 18 November '09

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee called the media on Tuesday evening to clarify that he had mistakenly referred to ‘astrology’ as ‘astronomy’ at a programme earlier in the day.
No one can stop Mamata from becoming CM: CPM minister

Tuesday 17 November '09

CPM may still deny it but its ministers have read the writing on the wall. Controversial minister Abdur Mollah said: 'nobody can stop Mamata from coming to power in 2011'
CPM veterans give up fight under Mamata blitz

Tuesday 17 November '09

Over a year that is left for the 2011 Assembly polls in the state may be a long time in politics, but Mamata Banerjee’s winning streak has clearly left the Left Front in a daze...
Work resumes in Basumati

Monday 16 November '09

Work in the sick PSU Basumati Corporation, which didn’t resume even after it was reopened on October 26, began on November 12 after representatives of the employees’ union held a meeting with senior government officials.
A Town Awaits its guests

Sunday 15 November '09

Jhargram in Bengal was once a bustling tourist spot. But today, Naxal attacks have hit the region’s tourism industry....
Naxal, terror allowance fails to impress cops

Saturday 14 November '09

The West Bengal Police Association is up in arms against the Left Front government over the way it is providing risk allowance to policemen combating terrorism in the state.
Rebel minister won’t go with Mamata or Cong

Friday 13 November '09

West Bengal Minister for Fisheries Kiranmoy Nanda today said that under no circumstances his party was going to have an alliance with the Congress or the Trinamool Congress.
Gidhni jawans return to Kharagpur

Thursday 12 November '09

All the 27 jawans of Eastern Frontier Rifles at Gidhni were today sent to their base camp at Kharagpur and another group of jawans from Kharagpur was sent there as replacement.
Trinamool man dies of bullet injuries, kin put cops in dock

Wednesday 11 November '09

Even as Trinamool Congress chief and Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee raises pitch for the withdrawal of joint forces from Left Wing Extremism affected areas of West Midnapore...
‘My pistol was no match for their AK-47s’

Tuesday 10 November '09

Nayan Mondol (36), an ASI posted with the Jamboni police station who was supposed to go on a week-long leave from today, was sipping his evening tea near a stall at Gidhni market yesterday.
Gidhni police camp wound up after Maoist ambush

Tuesday 10 November '09

The state government today dismantled the Eastern Frontier Rifles camp at Gidhni near the Bengal-Jhargram border where a Maoist squad shot four jawans dead on Sunday.
Day after, police camp shut

Tuesday 10 November '09

The West Bengal government on Monday dismantled the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) camp in Gidhni near Jhargram, where a Maoist...
Buddha warns Maoists of 'all-out police action'

Monday 9 November '09

CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said the state govt was soon going to launch an 'all-out police operation' to free West Bengal of Maoists.
Maoists kill 3 on day of Buddha visit

Sunday 8 November '09

On the first day of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s two-day visit to Naxal-hit areas, Maoists on Saturday killed three members of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha faction....
Maoists kill 3 as Buddha visits Naxal heartland

Sunday 8 November '09

On the first day of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's two-day visit to Naxal-hit areas, Maoists on Saturday killed three members of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha faction and dumped their bodies on the road near Dahichuri in West Midnapore district.
PCAPA pipes down as Buddha goes to Naxal heartland

Saturday 7 November '09

In a positive development a day ahead of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s visit to Midnapore to give a healing touch to the Naxal-hit areas...
Buddha’s note to Sibal: good but don’t play with federal structure

Thursday 5 November '09

Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has come down on the Union HRD ministry’s for not consulting the states before drafting its proposal for constituting the 15-member Central Madrasa Board for the entire country.
Trainjack: Railway minister suggests joint operation with RPF

Wednesday 4 November '09

A joint operation of the West Bengal police and the Railway Protection Force could take place in case another incident similar to the Maoists holding the Bhubaneswar Rajdhani for over seven hours at Banstala, West Bengal, on October 27.
Buddha finds peace in films: ‘Even a hungry man sings’

Wednesday 4 November '09

He may be a man besieged nowadays, but the connoisseur in him has not given up. Today, even as south Bengal was caught in a spiral of violence, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was busy defending the 15th Kolkata Film Festival...
State civil service split over armed security for BDOs

Wednesday 4 November '09

The two associations of West Bengal Civil Service Officers are divided on the issue of providing personal security officers for Block Development Officers in Naxal-affected areas of Purulia, West Midnapore and Bankura in the state.
A year after bid on life, CM to visit Midnapore

Tuesday 3 November '09

Exactly a year after Maoists triggered a blast on his convoy’s route at Salboni, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharje is going to Naxal-hit Midnapore on November 7 to get a first-hand view of law and order and development even as security forces gear up to mount a fresh offensive against the Maoists.
Anti-Sikh riots: Govt yet to pay compensation to victim

Monday 2 November '09

Twenty Five years on and Ranjit Singh is yet to get justice. On November 1, 1984 — a day after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated — Ranjit lost his father and his younger brother in the anti-Sikh riots.
Chinese engineers get MHA clearance, 22 fly back home

Saturday 31 October '09

Of the 25 Chinese employees of the Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation who were detained by the Kolkata police on Thursday morning, 22 boarded the flight to their home country today.
Trinamool leaders skip Buddha, but meet Asim

Friday 30 October '09

In a rare instance, sabhadhipatis of Trinamool Congress-controlled zilla parishads met state Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta at the Writers’ Buildings on Thursday to discuss development plans in their respective areas.
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