Jalpaiguri/Kolkata : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee exchanged a flurry of verbal punches on Friday, as he accused her of trying to save those involved in ponzi scheme scams, alleging that opposition parties were ...
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Feed SubscriptionMamata urges Manoj Sinha to address BSNL’s contractual workers’ plight
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to Union Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha urging him to take steps to regularise wage payments to contractual workers working in BSNL. “Thousands of contractual workers associated with different establishments ...
Read More »The power behind ‘Didi’: Her women’s brigade
By Sirshendu Panth, Kolkata : Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is not only West Bengal’s first woman Chief Minister and perhaps the most feisty woman politician in the country today but she also has her own women’s brigade – an ...
Read More »Mamata versus CBI: Implications
By Ujjwal K Chowdhury, The contest is apparently evenly poised as on today, Tuesday, February 5. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has projected the Supreme Court order directing Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to make himself available before the Central ...
Read More »Centre, Bengal stand-off: Mamata’s sit-in on, governor sends report
Kolkata/New Delhi : The unprecedented stand-off between the Narendra Modi government and the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal stretched to the second day on Monday as the feisty Chief Minister continued her sit-in, emboldened by the support from opposition ...
Read More »Mamata continues sit-in, SP leader joins protest
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday continued her sit-in protest here over the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in connection with a ponzi scheme scam, as Samajwadi Party leader Kiranmoy Nanda joined her. ...
Read More »Mamata’s opposition rally not enough to elevate her as face of opposition
By Milinda Ghosh Roy, Kolkata : Even as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee went all out to bring leaders of 23 opposition parties on one stage and launched a stinging attack against the Narendra Modi regime at her ‘United ...
Read More »Mamata accuses Centre of not releasing Rs 2,500 cr under MNREGA
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP-led Central government of deliberately not releasing funds for various Central schemes and said Rs 2,500 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme ...
Read More »Is Mamata scared of the BJP?
By Amulya Ganguli, For a leader who enjoys a huge majority in the state assembly and faces virtually no credible challenge from her opponents, Mamata Banerjee is surprisingly insecure. Her uncertainty about her political position could be seen in the ...
Read More »We don’t deny shelter to the needy: Mamata on Bengal
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her government is equally considerate towards all minorities and the state never denies shelter to anyone. On the issue of migration, she said: “Today is International Migrants Day. It ...
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