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....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.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.Wednesday
28 October '09CPM Hooghly district committee leader and former MP Anil Basu, who made disparaging remarks about Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee...Tuesday
27 October '09Land acquisition has always been a bone of contention between the Left Front government and the Trinamool Congress.Monday
26 October '09With the appointment of Rahul Sinha as the president of the state unit of BJP, cracks in the beleaguered unit came to the fore with a section of the party raising the banner of revolt against the party leadership.Saturday
24 October '09The West Bengal govt admitted that it had given in to the Maoists’ demands — and helped free 22 suspects — to secure release of Atindranath Dutta.Saturday
24 October '09Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee today said that he did not accept the offer of the Congress to become member of the Rajya Sabha because he did not want to take any favours from that party....Saturday
24 October '09Nearly a week ago when former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee received an offer from the Congress party to become a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha...Saturday
24 October '09The West Bengal government today admitted that it had given in to the Maoists’ demands — and helped free 22 suspects — to secure yesterday’s release of Atindranath Dutta, the abducted Officer in Charge of the Sankrail police station.Thursday
22 October '09It was on the advice of Maoist leader Kishenji that abducted Office-in-Charge Atindranath Dutta’s family went to the Writers’ Buildings and met Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.Thursday
22 October '09The family of Sankrail police station officer-in-charge Atindranath Dutta on Wednesday appealed to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee not to do anything that could endanger the officer’s life....Wednesday
21 October '09As the Centre prepares to launch operations against the Maoists in the six Naxal-affected states by the beginning of November...Tuesday
20 October '09After introducing a number of new trains, extending Metro Railway and modernising the Railway Sports Complex at Behala...Saturday
17 October '09Posters hailing veteran CPM leader Subhas Chakraborty, who died two months ago, have propped up in almost every nook and corner of the Belgachhia (East) Assembly constituency where bypolls will be held on November 10.Friday
16 October '09Even as the Centre plans an all-out offensive against the Left-wing ultras in six affected states, the West Bengal government is already taking a few tips from the veterans of Operation Steeplechase launched in 1971 to crush the Naxalite movement.Tuesday
13 October '09Unable to wrest the East-West Metro project from the state government, Trinamool Congress chief and Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee has instructed her ministry officials to ask the two directors from the railways on the Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation...
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