The police will examine the mobile phones and laptops of Saradha chief Sudipto Sen as well as employee Debjani Mukherjee to gather more information about this huge chit fund fraud. The multi-crore chit fund scam has taken on a political note as Finance Ministe...
The main accused in the multi-crore chit scam, the chairperson of the Saradha Group, Sudipto Sen has been brought to Kolkata and will be presented in the court today. Meanwhile all the people affected by the scam and the ones who have lost their life savings a...
The connection between the chairperson of the Saradha Group Sudipto Sen and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been revealed. It has been alleged that the person who bought Didi's paintings for several crores was none other than Sudipto Sen himself...
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and minister Madan Mitra have been advised to skip the IPL match at Eden Gardens today in view of protests across the city over the Saradha chit fund scam.
West Bengal Consumer Affairs Minister admits that he had received complaints about Saradha Group and that he had forwarded the complaints of irregularities to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. He also reveals that he had brought up the issue with the Centre.
Investors demand their dues after Saradha group chit fund, which had close links with West Bengal government, collapsed. The Left and Congress have attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her government for being close to the chit fund and not ...
An SFI activist, who was arrested by West Bengal police after clashes between the Left and TMC broke out in Siliguri, has been chained to a hospital bed for over 36 hours. The CPI(M) has lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over this inhuma...
In a bizarre twist to the Presidency college violence, the Kolkata police have now registered a case against two students based on a complaint by Trinamool Congress leader's complaint. The students surrender at a nearby police station after the complaint was f...
Condemning the clashes between TMC and Left in West Bengal which erupted after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was heckled by SFI workers in the national capital, BJP has condemned the violence in West Bengal and has demanded that those behind the v...
Left party cadres are now on a protest in Kolkata against the vandalism shown by Trinamool Congress workers yesterday. The leaders have questioned Mamata government for allowing her party workers to go on a rampage in Presidency College in Kolkata. TMC workers...
Police had to resort to use of force to disperse clashing cadres of the Left and Trinamool Congress, after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was heckled in the national capital in Siliguri. The political fighting spilled on to the streets, causing dam...
Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was heckled by SFI activists in the national capital, violence erupts in West Bengal between TMC workers and Left cadre. TMC ransacked the offices of the CPI(M) and attacked the Left leaders. Violence spil...
The clashes that erupted between the Left and TMC after TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was heckled in the national capital spilled into the streets, causing damage to private and public property. Police resorted to the use of force to...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who cancelled her meet with Finance Minister P Chidambaram after she was heckled by SFI activists in the national capital, accuses CPIM cadre for the rampant violence in west Bengal that followed the assault on her. ...
Miffed after she and her ministers were manhandled by SFI activists in the national capital, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to cancel her appointment with Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The TMC chief, who has appealed to her cadre not ...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was heckled by SFI activists in the national capital, has cancelled her appointment with Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The West Bengal CM is set to return to her state in the afternoon.
Hours after the TMC activists went on a rampage, ransacking the CPIM offices and attacking the Left members over the assault on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the state Fiance Minister Amit Mitra, the party holds a silent protest in the state. ...
Trinamool Congress has called for a statewide bandh in protest against the heckling and manhandling of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the state Finance Minister Amit Mitra by Left cadre in the national capital. TMC had unleashed fury in the sta...
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the industrialists in West Bengal, attacked Congress and Congress-led coalition government at the Centre. The scathing attack has left the Congress fuming with the party, along with Left and the Samajwadi ...
Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was heckled and manhandled in the national capital, TMC workers in her state hold violent protests. Many of the CPI(M) offices in the state are ransacked and party workers, including the leaders, are attac...
A very angry Mamata Banerjee has a heated argument with Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Rajiv Shukla on why SFI protests were allowed outside the Planning Commission in Delhi. The West Bengal CM is on a five-day visit to the capital and was at the Yojna Bhavan to m...
Protests against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is happening in Delhi. The protest is against the attitude of the leader towards the death of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta.
Narendra Modi is all set to address a gathering of businessmen, at the Oberoi hotel in Kolkata, organised by the Chamber of Commerce. Before the address, Modi stopped at the famous Dakshineshwar temple to seek blessings and said that the temple visit brought p...
Narendra Modi reaches Mamata Banerjee's West Bengal to address a conference held by the Chamber of Commerce in Oberoi Hotel. Before addressing the businessmen he stopped at the famous Dakshineshwar temple to seek blessings. The Chamber of Commerce is impressed...
In a move that is seen as an attempt to nationalize 'brand Modi', Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is all set to address industrialists in West Bengal. However, this hasn't gone down well with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who has decided to s...
Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi is in Mamata Banerjee's home state, West Bengal. He is scheduled to meet the business community of the state as well as BJP workers. Before starting his day, he first visited the famous Dakshineshwar temple for blessing...
In a move that is seen as an attempt to nationalize 'brand Modi' Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who impressed Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) with his speech, is in West Bengal to address a similar meeting of industrialist...
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee says that SFI leader Sudipto Gupta died accidentally and not because of police brutality. The police are also sticking to the lamp post theory.
Autopsy report of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta has revealed that the student leader had suffered multiple injuries. Will West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agree to the demand of a judicial probe into the death?
Death of West Bengal SFI leader Sudipto Gupta in police custody has sent shock waves across the nation. Yet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continues to claim that the death was an accident and thereby trivializing this brutal crime. Can the CM cont...
In a shocking incident that reveals the atrociousness of police in West Bengal, a Left student leader, who was taken into custody, was allegedly tortured to death by the state police. The police, which refuted all the allegations, claim that he was killed in a...
The government may have successfully managed to pass anti-rape law bill in Parliament but the crimes against women are ever on the increase. A TMC leader has shamed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by allegedly raping a woman in Jalpaiguri district. ...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the UPA government of depriving her state of central funds. The centre, however, has rubbished the claims made by the the TMC chief.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reaches Sealdah area in Kolkata where a major fire has claimed the lives of 15 people and destroyed property worth lakhs. The Chief Minister says that a probe is ordered into the accident and claims that rescue operat...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reaches Sealdah area in Kolkata where a major fire has claimed the lives of 15 people and destroyed property worth lakhs. An inquiry is likely to be ordered into the incident as the market which was gutted was an unau...
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is claiming that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has a positive view on the National Counter Terrorism Centre and that the central government was trying to break the deadlock of the proposed anti-terror hub. The pro...
Suman Mukhopadhyay, director of the movie which was banned in West Bengal, lashes out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for curtailing the freedom of expression. He claims that the film was banned in West Bengal because there is a sense of insecurity.
War of words erupted between the CPM and Trinamool Congress in West Bengal after former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya called Mamata Banerjee 'dishonest'. Launching a scathing attack on the veteran CPM leader, TMC has levelled corruption charges against...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calls photojournalists uncivilized and threatens to slap them. This is the second such incident in one week. Earlier, didi was caught on camera, shouting at her security guards. Will the West Bengal CM ever apologize ...
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan put Mamata Banerjee in a tight spot saying that goondaism is prevalent in the State. He was refering to the recent clash between the workers of Trinamool Congress and CPI(M). Narayanan said that the incidents are disturbing an...
West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan slams the government for its inability to maintain law and order in the State. Narayanan said that violence is not acceptable and action must be taken on the basis of an impartial probe. The political tension between Trinamool...
The clashes between the CPM and TMC in West Bengal have left several people injured. However both the parties have refused to take responsibility for clashes, choosing to play the blame game instead. Even as the situation in the state remains tense, Chief Mini...
The mindset of Indian politicians is under the scanner. After the 'dented and painted' remark by President Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress MP Abhijeet Mukherjee, now comes the attack made by CPI(M) Anisur Rehman on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerje...
MK Narayanan, Governor of West Bengal, reopened the renovated KCS Panicker Art Gallery to the public on December 17, 2012. Located on the Museum premises, this gallery had been undergoing renovation for over a year and had thus remained closed on account of th...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is facing the heat from her own Cabinet members. Raising the banner of revolt is an embittered West Bengal Minister Rabindranath Bhattacharjee, who has fired a fresh salvo at the Chief Minister claiming that the Trina...
BJP appears to be divided over its decision to support the no-confidence motion proposed by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee over the issue of FDI in retail. The party will take a final call on supporting the West Bengal Chief Minister in the NDA meet.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is now haunted by her own Singur movement. Police opened fire on villagers protesting land acquisition by a coal company in Bhirbhum, and Mamata was forced to tender a public apology after initial attempts to pin the blame on the...
Nearly 37 people have been injured in clashing between farmers and policemen in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. The farmers were protesting against a mining project in Birbhum. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is accused of unleashing her police...
Four years after Tata pulled the plug on its Nano project in Singur, private cargo handler ABG Haldia Bulk Terminals too has pulled out of Haldia, West Bengal, owing to security concerns. Gurpreet Mahli, CEO of ABG, said three of its senior officials were abdu...
Newshour | Stating that West Bengal government had not provided the firm with a safe environment, private cargo handler ABG Haldia Bulk Terminals (HBT) has pulled out of the Haldia port. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, instead of acknowledging the ...
The Kolkata High Court is expected to pass an order on Monday on whether criminal charges should be filed against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her comments against the judiciary. She had earlier commented that the judgments of the judiciary c...
After parting ways with the UPA, Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for the first time lead a demonstration in New Delhi on Monday against 'anti-people' decisions of the Centre. Mamata says the Centre must review its decis...
NCP chief Sharad Pawar is set to share stage with Congress's former ally TMC led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Congress is keeping a close watch on the outcome of this meet because of the possible formation of a third front.
With the resignation of six cabinet ministers, TMC's withdrawal of support for the UPA government became official. It appears as if the Congress is ready to offer a fitting reply for this drastic move as six Congress ministers in the West Bengal cabinet are se...
Newshour | The split between TMC and Congress became official with the TMC ministers tendering their resignation. TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, who wanted to corner Congress, now finds herself cornered she has not found any support from anyone. She has not dared ...
Trinamool Congress and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has refused permission for the Congress to hold a rally in Singur on the September 25. The Congress had informed her about the rally in August, making the bitter split more evident.
Congress ministers will tender their resignation to West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday. However, Mamata holds the majority in WB and the Congress ministers pulling out will not affect her Government. Mamata who holds 19 seats in the Parl...
TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the government of tapping her phone calls. The Congress has denied the charges. This is not the first time that she is making such an allegation. Earlier, when she was part of the Opposition ...
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has denied TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accusation that her phone had been tapped by the government. Mamata had alleged that her phone was tapped even during the 'Nandigram movement'.
Newshour | TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has walked the talk by pulling out from the government. Although there are attempts to broker a deal, sources reveal that she is not likely to return to the UPA fold. Will government survive M...
Newshour | TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has walked the talk by pulling out from the cabinet. Although there are attempts to broker a deal, sources reveal that she is not likely to return to the UPA fold. Government seems to have no ...
Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party does not seem to have arrived at a decision on supporting government as it is awaiting the decision which will be taken by TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday. SP chief will meet his Parlia...
Senior CPI leader AB Bharathan hits out at TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who dared the Left to have a bandh in the State. Bharathan has said that since Mamata too is protesting against the UPA government over its allegedly 'anti-peop...
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) remarks that a reform rollback will adversely affect India's economy as India will lose its credibility as an investor-friendly nation. It has also said that there is no question of anybody teachin...
Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit remarks that the easing of cap on LPG cylinders in Congress-led States is not an attempt to please TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. He also says that the non-Congress States should also follow the same.
In her first public address post walkout, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launches a direct attack on the Congress-led UPA government over its latest reforms which she terms as 'anti-people'. She demands at least 24 cyli...
Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh emphasizes that the Trinamool Congress will not tolerate the series of anti-people policies laid down by the Central government. The TMC is expected to formally announce their decision after a meeting with the Prime Minister this eve...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi are expected to meet to discuss TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee's controversial threat. The West Bengal Chief Minister has announced that she will pull out of the UPA alliance if the government refuses to roll back th...
Newshour | The government has been cornered by its own allies and the Opposition over the issue of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail. Yet it has shown no hesitation nor any plan to go back on the reforms even as the deadline set by West Bengal Chief Mi...
Centrestage | TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is finding herself in a tight spot as the 72-hour deadline that she had set is fast expiring. Despite having several options open, there is only one that she can possibly take now as the go...
News Night | TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is finding herself in a tight spot as the 72-hour deadline that she had set is fast expiring. Despite having several options open, there is only one that she can possibly take now as the gov...
The Congress-led UPA government seems to be playing a wait and watch game even as the 72-hour deadline set by TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is coming to its final hours. Although the government is expected to call a cabinet meet, it ...
There are indications that the Congress is not really worried about the threat and deadline set by TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. TMC appears to have three options before the party: boycott of ministries, withdrawal from ministries a...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to talk to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to find a middle ground to the crisis created following the clearance of FDI in retail and Aviation. Banerjee had set a 72-hour deadline to rollback the reform. Meanw...
Congress spokesperson PC Chacko remarks that the government is doing everything possible to rope in the allies who are opposing FDI in retail. He has further said that Congress hopes that West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee ...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is sparing no effort to attack the decision of government over FDI and diesel price hike as she has chosen the social networking forum to express her dissatisfaction against the government. In her facebook page, Didi ...
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has set a 72-hour ultimatum to rollback the diesel price and the cap on LPG cylinder. The 72-hour deadline is also applicable to the Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail and Avi...
At Samajwadi Party's first executive meet after winning the Uttar Pradesh polls, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has said that it is not going to be easy for NDA or UPA to form a government in the Centre without the help of smaller parties. In the meet, he has...
The mental, emotional and physical agony that a rape victim goes through is indescribable. Putting a price for going through such a traumatizing experience is almost similar to insulting the victim's dignity. Yet the Mamata Banerjee led West Bengal government ...
A passenger bus going from Jhargram to Durgapur was swept away by the sudden rise of water and fell into the Barabanki river. The powerful current took the bus nearly 500 metres away from the road. The rescue operations which began almost immediately are on th...
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee's latest shocker has the country in peals of laughter. Addressing the media, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that the latest dengue outbreak in the state is due to dieting and can be curbed by a proper diet. Call...
Even as a fresh wave of dengue strikes the state of West Bengal, the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offers a completely bizarre and irrational explanation to the problem. Claiming that the rise in dengue fever is because of dieting, the Chief Minister has call...
After Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's gaffe on malnutrition, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has come out with an even more bizarre gaffe on dengue. Addressing the media, the TMC supremo says that the latest dengue outbreak in the state is du...
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee's latest shocker has the country in peals of laughter. Addressing the media, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that the latest dengue outbreak in the state is due to dieting and can be curbed by a proper diet. Call...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has punished a publisher, by raiding his office and residence, for selling a book that was critical of her and her governance. The publisher is asked not to sell any more copies of the book and the shops selling the b...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has punished a publisher, by raiding his office and residence, for selling a book that was critical of her and her government. The book allegedly questions government's policies on the minorities. The publisher has al...
There has been a security breach at Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee's rally at Behrampur in West Bengal. Hundreds of people enter the high-security zone and rush towards the stage as the police are left clueless as to how to control the crowd in the Chief Mini...
The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, speaks up on the Coalgate issue that has held up Parliament. She wants the UPA government to finish its term. This comes as a relief to the Congress who may have to go for a trust vote next week if the BJP re...
Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blamed a section of media for the increasing number of rape cases in the state, three more instances of crimes against women have been reported from the state. Two cases of molestation and one case of eve ...
After targeting the judiciary, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has now attacked the West Bengal media. Under fire for increasing number of rape cases in the state, Mamata Banerjee has accused a section of the media for inciting such incidents. She h...
West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee has stirred another controversy, lashing out at the media alleging certain sections of the media buy soundbytes, panelists and biased reports. Banerjee also attacked the judiciary and called it corrupt. She has threa...
More instances of molestation against children has come to light in West Bengal. Two children were molested 100 metres from a police station. A complaint is lodged against a carpool driver, who is reported to have abused a brother and sister. The police did no...
The Supreme Court has stayed the Calcutta High Court verdict on the Singur land allocation. The apex court has sent notices to Tata Motors seeking their response. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee has challenged the Calcutta High Court verdict. While...
Although Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has attended the UPA coordination committee meet, she has not budged from her stand on the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). But she has expressed her willingness to hold further d...
Although Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has attended the coordination committee meet, she has not budged from her stand on the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). But she has expressed her willingness to hold further dis...
Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has opposed the Foreign Direct Investment in civil aviation. She is also against the withdrawal of subsidies on fertilizers. These are in fact two of the key development proposals put forw...
Special trains will run from Assam to other parts of the country from Sept 1. Assamese who want to return to their offices or educational institutions can utilise these trains as well as the helplines that are being set up. Home Secretary of Assam GD Tripathi ...
She came to power, promising to bring the much awaited 'poriborton' (change) in West Bengal. But now she seems to have forgotten all about her promises as West Bengal is turning out to be an unsafe state for women days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee prom...
It might have a woman Chief Minister heading the state, but Mamata Bannerjee's West Bengal is increasingly becoming one of the most unsafe places for women in India. The mother of a 4-year-old child was gang raped in Kolkata when she was returning from work. T...
Three days after Mamata Bannerjee made derogatory remarks against the nation's judiciary, a retired judge now claims that his life has been threatened for opposing the West Bengal Chief Minister . While Mamata continues to draw criticism from the Centre, the O...