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.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.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...Thursday
8 October '09Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, it seems, knows the art of diplomacy very well. So almost a fortnight after he exhorted the UPA government to form an alliance with China and Russia to take on America’s might...Thursday
8 October '09The Z-Plus category security for former chief minister Jyoti Basu, has been scaled down following a review of protection that the 96-year-old communist leader gets from the state government.Tuesday
6 October '09Following a string of poll debacles, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has now set up a powerful Chief Minister’s Office on the lines of PMO to oversee and speed up developmental work in the state.Monday
5 October '09She had never dreamt of being the Mayor of Siliguri Municipality. But 60-year-old Gangotri Dutta, a lawyer by profession and a former teacher at Jalpaiguri College, believed that some day she would be recognised for her work.Sunday
4 October '09Taking a leaf out of the Left-ruled Kerala, the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is quietly working on a plan to bring in more Muslim sub-groups under the OBC category so that reservation benefits could be extended to the community that has been the CPM’s traditional support base.Thursday
1 October '09West Bengal Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen had a surprise caller on Wednesday. Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee phoned up Sen...Thursday
1 October '09In a development that has generated interest both in political and administrative circles here, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today called up Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen...Wednesday
30 September '09The West Bengal government on Tuesday defended its decision to send policemen posing as journalists to nab Chhatradhar Mahato....Wednesday
30 September '09The operation in which the policemen posing as journalists nabbed Chhatradhar Mahato, the leader of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities...
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