

Friday 20 November '09
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has virtually said no to the commercial production of Bt Brinjal in the state.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.Tuesday
17 November '09CPM 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'Tuesday
17 November '09Over 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...Monday
16 November '09Work 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.Sunday
15 November '09Jhargram in Bengal was once a bustling tourist spot. But today, Naxal attacks have hit the region’s tourism industry....Saturday
14 November '09The 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.Friday
13 November '09West 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.Thursday
12 November '09All 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.Wednesday
11 November '09Even 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...Tuesday
10 November '09Nayan 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.Tuesday
10 November '09The 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.Tuesday
10 November '09The West Bengal government on Monday dismantled the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) camp in Gidhni near Jhargram, where a Maoist...Monday
9 November '09CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said the state govt was soon going to launch an 'all-out police operation' to free West Bengal of Maoists.Sunday
8 November '09On 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....Sunday
8 November '09On 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.Saturday
7 November '09In 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...Thursday
5 November '09Chief 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.Wednesday
4 November '09A 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.Wednesday
4 November '09He 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...Wednesday
4 November '09The 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.Tuesday
3 November '09Exactly 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.Monday
2 November '09Twenty 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.Saturday
31 October '09Of 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.Friday
30 October '09In 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.