Contempt notice served to Mamata Banerjee over remark against Supreme Court's job cut order
Apr 10, 2025, at 03:46 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A contempt of court notice has been issued to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her remarks against the Supreme Court verdict that has cancelled the 2016 recruitment of almost 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff by the School Service Commission (SSC).
Waqf Act won't be implemented in Bengal: Mamata Banerjee
Apr 10, 2025, at 01:06 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said the controversial Waqf (Amendment) Act won't be implemented in her state, rallying behind the minority community in the run up to the 2026 assembly elections.
Apr 08, 2025, at 10:25 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A protest rally in West Bengal's Murshidabad against the contentious Waqf Act turned violent on Tuesday when a clash broke out between the protesters and police, media reports said.
Mamata Banerjee backs Bengal teachers who lost jobs, says she has plans to accommodate them
Apr 07, 2025, at 03:11 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday backed all who lost their jobs owing to the Supreme Court order that annulled the appointments of almost 26,000 candidates and assured them of continuation of their service.
Apr 03, 2025, at 04:03 pm
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday hit out at opposition BJP and CPI(M) over the outcome of Supreme Court’s verdict upholding the Calcutta High Court’s decision to cancel the recruitment of nearly 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staff by the School Service Commission (SSC). The top court had termed the selection process "vitiated and tainted by fraud."
Stay united: Mamata Banerjee's appeal to people on Eid as BJP aims Hindu vote consolidation
Mar 31, 2025, at 08:16 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday appealed to people to "stay united" in a bid to thwart the aggressive Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is aiming to consolidate the Hindu votes eyeing to unseat the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the 2026 assembly elections.
'I differ...': Mamata Banerjee on India predicted as number one economy in world by 2060
Mar 28, 2025, at 02:04 pm
London/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has astonishingly differed from the prediction that her country, India, will become the number one economy in the world.
Mar 28, 2025, at 12:21 pm
London/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's address to the students at Kellogg College, Oxford University in London turned ugly as she was grilled by a section of the audience on industrialisation and the horrific rape-murder incident at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Left, BJP call Mamata's Oxford University invitation fake PhD deja vu, TMC hits back
Mar 18, 2025, at 02:20 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that she has been invited to deliver a lecture at the Oxford University on March 27 stirred a row after the opposition parties in the state accused the veteran politician of peddling a lie.
Mar 18, 2025, at 11:24 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday hit out at the Opposition for questioning her intent behind visiting Furfurfa Sharif, a prominent Muslim pilgrimage in the state's Hooghly district, with assembly elections due to be held next year.
Mar 07, 2025, at 09:57 pm
Chennai/IBNS: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday reached out to seven of his counterparts, including Bengal's Mamata Banerjee, Punjab's Bhagwant Mann, and BJP-ruled Odisha's Mohan Chandra Majhi, to join a 'joint action committee' of political parties to voice against the delimitation exercise proposed by the Centre.
FIR lodged against Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu in Jadavpur University violence
Mar 07, 2025, at 01:26 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The Kolkata Police Thursday registered an FIR against West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu, his driver, and Professor Om Prakash Mishra in connection with the violence at Jadavpur University on March 1.
EPIC numbers' duplication doesn't imply fake voters: EC responds to Mamata Banerjee's charge
Mar 02, 2025, at 02:02 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Responding to the charges by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Election Commission Sunday clarified that duplication in EPIC numbers on voter ID cards does not imply fake voters.
Mar 02, 2025, at 12:54 am
Kolkata: A standoff erupted at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on Saturday as student activists from CPI(M)-affiliated SFI and the Naxalite AISA staged a protest demanding the immediate announcement of student union election dates, media reports said.
Feb 25, 2025, at 09:50 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who received massive flak for her remark 'Mrityu Kumbh', slammed back her Uttar Pradesh counterpart citing his "abuses".
Amid 'Bharat' buzz, Congress leaders gather at Sonia Gandhi's home, INDIA bloc meet to follow
Sep 06, 2023, at 02:37 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Amid the buzz over the change of the country's name from 'India' to 'Bharat', Congress parliamentary leaders have gathered at Sonia Gandhi's house for a meeting, which will be followed by another of the opposition alliance 'INDIA' bloc.
BJP releases alleged Mamata tape asking candidate to frame SP, IC, Commandant in Sitalkuchi firing
Apr 17, 2021, at 01:24 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released an audio tape, purportedly of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, where she was heard instructing her Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Cooch Behar's Sitalkuchi after the firing to not let the families of the victims claim the bodies till there was a rally with the dead. The alleged tape quoted the CM saying that from the central force commandant to the Superintendent of Police and the IC, all had to be framed.
West Bengal has 61 active Covid-19 positive cases: CM Mamata Banerjee
Apr 06, 2020, at 07:35 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that her state was treating 61 active Covid-19 positive cases while 13 coronavirus infected patients had been cured so far.
Mamata Banerjee comes across Modi's wife Jasodaben in Kolkata airport, gifts sari
Sep 18, 2019, at 12:04 pm
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jasodaben at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Monday and they exchanged greetings.
West Bengal: Muslim teacher alleges he was pushed off a train for not chanting 'Jai Shree Ram'
Jun 25, 2019, at 12:21 pm
Kolkata, June 25 (IBNS): While a young Muslim man succumbed to a mob assault in Jharkhand when he was forced to utter "Jai Shree Ram" as witnessed in a viral video, a madrassa teacher in West Bengal has alleged that he was beaten up and pushed off a moving train by a group of men for not chanting 'Jai Shree Ram'. Police said they are investigating the charge, media reports said.
Bring Muslim criminals to book: now members of the minority community tell Mamata Banerjee
Jun 20, 2019, at 06:42 pm
Kolkata, June 20 (IBNS): With the divide between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal growing over the perceived "appeasement politics" of the ruling Mamata Banerjee government, a group of prominent Muslims in Kolkata have written to the chief minister to act against any Muslim violating law and not go soft on them to further give credence to the perception that Muslims can get away with crimes under her while Hindus suffer.
Meeting between agitating doctors and Mamata ends amicably, protest likely to be called off
Jun 17, 2019, at 05:51 pm
Kolkata: A meeting between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, top government and police officials and the agitating doctors ended amicably at the state secretariat Nabanna on Monday with the representatives of the doctors indicating that they would end the protest reaching back at the NRS Hospital, the hub of the unrest.
Jun 15, 2019, at 06:43 pm
Kolkata, June 15 (IBNS): Referring that no 'negative action' has been taken against the protesting doctors so far, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday reiterated that several outsiders have entered the demonstration even as the standoff between the CM and the junior doctors on warpath with the government over their security continued.
Jun 14, 2019, at 11:57 am
New Delhi, June 14 (IBNS): Doctors from Delhi, Mumbai and other cities across the country have decided to show support for their protesting colleagues in West Bengal where the strike demanding security of doctors entered the fourth day on Friday with the medical fraternity engaged in a standoff with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who a day ago issued an ultimatum to the doctors at the state-run SSKM Hospital to join work within four hours, but chose not to meet the agitating doctors at the NRS Medical College and Hospital.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wishes Sachin Tendulkar on birthday
Apr 24, 2019, at 03:51 pm
Kolkata, Apr 24 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wished India's batting icon and former Rajya Sabha member Sachin Tendulkar on his birthday.
Mamata-CBI tussle: Anti-BJP Opposition backs TMC chief
Feb 04, 2019, at 02:10 pm
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IBNS): In an apparent boost for the anti-Narendra Modi front, several opposition leaders, most of them who were seen at the Brigade rally on Jan 19, backed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's "sit-in" protest against the CBI's move to quiz Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar for allegedly tampering evidences of chit-fund scams.
We found concrete evidence against Rajeev Kumar: CBI on chit fund scam probe
Feb 03, 2019, at 10:52 pm
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IBNS) As a high-pitched drama unfolded in Kolkata Sunday evening over the CBI's attempt to interrogate Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, the federal investigating agency claimed they have concrete evidence against the city police chief in the chit fund scams probe and hence summoned him for quizzing for the past two years.
CRPF guard for CBI offices in Kolkata as Mamata sits on dharna against federal agency
Feb 03, 2019, at 09:40 pm
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IBNS): Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) personnel were deployed to protect the CBI offices in Kolkata amid reports that the federal investigating agency is moving the Supreme Court tomorrow to counter the Kolkata Police which whisked away several of their officers on Sunday evening when they tried to meet city police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the chit fund scams probe in West Bengal.
Mamata announces sit-in protest against CBI move against Kolkata Police Commissioner
Feb 03, 2019, at 08:27 pm
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister on Sunday evening announced a dharna (sit in protest) in the city's downtown area to protest the CBI move to enter the house of Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, whom the federal probe agency wanted to meet in chit fund scam cases.
Feb 03, 2019, at 07:24 pm
Kolkata: Amid high drama, Kolkata Police on Sunday evening whisked away a group of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials who tried to enter the house of Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, who is reportedly wanted by the federal invetigating agency in the probe into ponzi scheme scams in West Bengal. They are reportedly detained inside the Shakespeare Thana police station though there is no official confirmation by the city police.