Wednesday 26 August '09
While 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 '09
Bangladeshi 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.Wednesday
19 August '09Left Front allies on Tuesday hit out at Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for not having deputed a minister to attend the chief ministers’ meet on internal security with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a day earlier.Wednesday
19 August '09While his recent remarks on political violence in the state may have cost him his goodwill with the ruling Marxists, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi certainly seems to have endeared himself to the people.Wednesday
19 August '09With nine more persons testing H1N1 positive and the total number of swine flu cases in the state climbing to 56...Wednesday
19 August '09With nine more persons testing H1N1 positive and the total number of swine flu cases in the state climbing to 56....Tuesday
18 August '09Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has a spanner in Trinamool Congress chief and Union Railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s plans to take over Basumati Corporation Ltd ...Monday
17 August '09With the fledgling BJP unit in West Bengal affected by infighting, several BJP leaders are switching allegiance to the Trinamool, the party which was their partner in the NDA government.Monday
17 August '09As if the debacle in the Lok Sabha and municipal elections was not enough, health has become a serious concern for CPM top brass in Bengal.Saturday
15 August '09Intellectuals of the city have strongly expressed their opinion in favour of controversial Bangladesh author Taslima Nasreen’s coming back to the city.Friday
14 August '09A cavalcade stopped in front of a monument and Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, along with his wife and a few family members got down and walked towards the building.Thursday
13 August '09The Railway Board has written a letter to the state government offering a takeover of ailing state PSU Basumati Corporation Ltd by the railways, a proposal Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee had included in her budget.Wednesday
12 August '09With its land acquisition policy said to have undone it in the recent Lok Sabha polls, the Left Front government on Tuesday made it clear there would be no industrialisation at the cost of food security.Tuesday
11 August '09The polarisation in the ranks of bureaucrats and top police officers of the state has begun.Monday
10 August '09In the ongoing tussle between Governor Gopalkrishna Ga-ndhi and the state government, the ruling Marxists went a step further on Sunday by highlighting the “partisan acts” of the Governor.Monday
10 August '09The polarisation in the ranks of bureaucrats and top police officers of the state has begun.Friday
7 August '09With political violence claiming over 50 lives in the state since the Lok Sabha elections, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Thursday came down heavily on all political parties.Friday
7 August '09With political violence claiming over 50 lives in the state since the Lok Sabha elections, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at political parties in his first scathing comments since the Nandigram firing incident.Friday
7 August '09The state government on Thursday admitted that the Centre-state joint operation against the Maoists has not achieved much after small initial successes as it could not be sustained even as the Central government insisted that the state government return the Central forces engaged in the operations.Thursday
6 August '09Ahead of the tripartite talks between the state government, the Centre and the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) on the GJM’s demand...Thursday
30 July '09In a marked policy shift, the state government on Wednesday sent out a clear message that it no more favoured land acquisition since it is “cumbersome”...Wednesday
29 July '09In a bid to steal the show from Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee who declared in the railway budget that her ministry would take over Basumati Corporations Ltd...Friday
24 July '09Come August 1, Sunil Mitra, the architect of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s bold disinvestment initiative for West Bengal state PSUs...Wednesday
22 July '09A day after state Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen gave a clean chit to the police for the incident at Mangalkot where eight Congress MLAs...Wednesday
22 July '09History has a strange way of repeating itself. In 1940, Mahatma Gandhi had paid a visit to Santiniketan and stayed there for two days as guest of Rabindranath Tagore.
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