Friday 25 September '09
With the high price of potato becoming another issue in the hands of the Opposition to beat the beleaguered Left Front government with...Wednesday 23 September '09
The internal feud in the CPM over the Vedic Village incident is set to intensify with Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdul Rezzaq Mollah today saying he would hit back at the party leadership in the next state committee meeting.Tuesday
22 September '09Following a request from the National Highway Authority of India, the state government has agreed to set up dedicated land acquisition cells in every district to expedite the process for the upgrade of various national highways.Monday
21 September '09A Seven-member delegation of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) will meet top state government officials on September 22 to discuss the issue of regularising temporary employees of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC).Monday
21 September '09Decks have been cleared for maverick IPS officer Nazrul Islam — now ADG (Traffic) of state police to join the Railway Ministry.Friday
18 September '09Taking a leaf out of BJP-ruled Rajasthan, the West Bengal government is organising a fashion show to revive the khadi and handloom sector in the state....Friday
18 September '09Stung by a string of electoral setbacks in 2009, the Marxists, it seems, need a break to ease the pain. And while Mamata Banerjee has been stealing the show with stars in tow...Thursday
17 September '09At a time when tension is building up between India and China over border disputes, a group of Chinese businessmen who came to Kolkata today said the trade relations between the two countries would continue to grow despite the controversies that they hoped would be solved amicably.Thursday
17 September '09Days after the West Bengal Information and Technology department announced the scrapping of an IT park project with Infosys and Wipro in Rajarhat New Town, Chief Minister Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today put his foot dow...Wednesday
16 September '09On a day when the ruling Left Front suffered a major electoral setback as the Trinamool-Congress combine wrested the Siliguri Municipal Board from it after 27 years...Tuesday
15 September '09The image of West Bengal as an investor-friendly state, feel experts, has nosedived in the West after the pullout of the Tatas from Singur.Thursday
10 September '09The state government has reopened Basumati Corporation, one of the two sick state PSUs it had decided to close down in the second phase of industrial restructuring.Tuesday
8 September '09Just a month after the ruling Left Front accused Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi of being biased against the Marxists...Monday
7 September '09For the first time since becoming the Union Railway Minister, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee failed to turn up at the flagging-off ceremony for new trains in Kolkata on Sunday.Monday
7 September '09Sayantan Bhattacharjee, 15, has been dreaming about space, planets, moon and NASA ever since he was less than 10 years old.Saturday
5 September '09In an unusual departure from their party’s rather rigid norms, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee....Saturday
5 September '09In an unusual departure from their party’s rather rigid norms, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee...Saturday
5 September '09For the last nine months, the West Bengal Human Rights Commission is functioning without a permanent chairperson.Friday
4 September '09The state BJP on Thursday demanded that Jaswant Singh, who won on a BJP ticket from Darjeeling and was expelled from the party, should resign from Parliament as he has lost the moral right to continue as an MP.Thursday
3 September '09Two-and-a-half months after the Centre-state joint security forces launched their operation in Lalgarh to flush out Maoists...Thursday
3 September '09Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, known to be pro-modernisation, has now decided to take on state government employees who owe allegiance to the CPM but prefer the status quo as far as mode of payment of salaries is concerned.Thursday
3 September '09Two-and-a-half months after the Centre-state joint security forces launched their operation in Lalgarh to flush out Maoists, they achieved their first major success on Wednesday...Friday
28 August '09The state government has decided to shoot down the proposal by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee to name the five new Metro stations on the just-inaugurated Tollygunge-Garia stretch after eminent personalities from the state.Wednesday
26 August '09While Maoists in the Lalgarh and the areas around it are trying to stage a comeback, state’s Director General of state police Bhupinder Singh on Tuesday said the Jharkhand police is waiting for the rains to be over to launch operations against the Maoists.Monday
24 August '09Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who is currently staying in an undisclosed location in New Delhi, seems to have reconciled herself to the fact that she will not be able to come to Kolkata, which she considers her second home.
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