Mamata Banerjee should lead INDIA bloc: Lalu Prasad Yadav
Dec 10, 2024, at 10:02 am
New Delhi/IBNS: In more support for the West Bengal chief minister, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav has backed Mamata Banerjee to lead the opposition alliance INDIA.
Dec 09, 2024, at 07:14 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid escalating tension between India and Bangladesh over the atrocities on minorities in the neighbouring country, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday asked political leaders to refrain from making any provocative statements.
Dec 08, 2024, at 07:40 am
Pune/IBNS: Responding to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's remark that she is "willing to lead the INDIA alliance," NCP (Sharad Pawar) MP Supriya Sule said that they would be happy if the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief took on more responsibility within the opposition alliance.
Mamata Banerjee questions Congress’s leadership as INDIA bloc allies outperform in key states
Dec 07, 2024, at 04:36 pm
Kolkata: After the Congress’s lacklustre performance in the recent Assembly polls across states, despite a modest improvement in the Lok Sabha polls, its allies in the INDIA bloc have begun to dismiss the party’s potential as a formidable opponent to BJP. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent comment about leading the opposition alliance further highlighted this sentiment.
Dec 04, 2024, at 08:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has outrightly rejected West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's proposal to deploy United Nations peacekeepers in violence-hit Bangladesh, questioning the veteran politician's understanding of how such a force is sent on an assignment in a country.
Dec 03, 2024, at 05:02 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday reminded her party colleagues about her absolute authority in the Trinamool Congress' decision-making amid the rumour over a possible power-struggle involving her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
UN force should be deployed, PM Modi must intervene: Mamata Banerjee on Bangladesh unrest
Dec 02, 2024, at 07:41 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should intervene in the ongoing Bangladesh unrest and batted for the deployment of peacekeeping forces of the United Nations in the neighbouring country.
Nov 30, 2024, at 07:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has slammed the Trinamool Congress (TMC) after one of its leader's husband was arrested in West Bengal's Darjeeling with confidential DRDO documents and dangerous nuclear materials worth crores, media reports said.
Mamata Banerjee backs Modi govt's stand on arrest of Hindu monk in Bangladesh
Nov 28, 2024, at 07:30 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she will support whichever stand the central government takes in connection with the arrest of Hindu monk and International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) saint Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari in Bangladesh, media reports said.
Won't be a rubber stamp for Congress: TMC signals rifts in INDIA bloc
Nov 28, 2024, at 03:50 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Trinamool Congress Wednesday refused to be a "rubber stamp" for its ally's decisions, signalling a rift in the INDIA bloc, media reports said.
Mamata Banerjee's TMC set to clean sweep West Bengal bypolls
Nov 23, 2024, at 04:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) is set to sweep the six assembly byelections 6-0, warding off the criticisms it had faced over the RG Kar rape-murder case.
FIRs filed against BJP's Mithun Chakraborty over alleged 'inflammatory' speech in Kolkata
Nov 08, 2024, at 02:40 am
Kolkata: Two cases have been registered against actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty for making an inflammatory speech at the party's membership drive in Kolkata's Salt Lake, media reports said.
Violent protests erupt in Bengal's South 24 Parganas over TMC govt's housing scheme beneficiary list
Oct 31, 2024, at 07:34 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Tension erupted in a part of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas after the Mamata Banerjee government released lists of beneficiaries in the state's housing scheme, media reports said.
Oct 29, 2024, at 01:47 am
Kolkata: West Bengal, which is already charged up with intense Trinamool-BJP rivalry, witnessed further escalation on Sunday as actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty delivered a fiery message, vowing a tit-for-tat response to any violent overtures by Mamata Bannerjee’s ruling party.
Oct 22, 2024, at 07:32 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Monday countered with facts by a junior doctor after the state head made a bizarre remark that a person can't be called an accused until charges are proven.
Oct 22, 2024, at 06:48 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front on Monday called off their indefinite hunger strike after 17 days on request from the parents of the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August.
RG Kar: Mamata Banerjee promises to look into agitating doctors' demands after 2-hour meeting
Oct 22, 2024, at 03:00 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The highly-anticipated meeting between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and protesting junior doctors aimed at resolving the ongoing crisis following the brutal rape and murder of a medic at RG Kar Medical College took place for nearly two hours on Monday evening.
RG Kar: Junior doctors to meet Mamata Banerjee today with hunger strike on
Oct 21, 2024, at 04:58 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal junior doctors will on Monday meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for a dialogue over their demands for a reformed health system in the state in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee medic at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Oct 19, 2024, at 10:25 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday outrightly rejected the junior doctors' demand to sack state health secretary NS Nigam over the RG Kar rape-murder case as well as corruption in the sector.
Oct 19, 2024, at 08:58 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dialled junior doctors appealing them to call off hunger strike over the incident where a 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August.
Setback for Mamata govt as Calcutta HC allows Bengal junior doctors' carnival in Kolkata
Oct 15, 2024, at 08:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In another courtroom setback for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed junior doctors' carnival rejecting Kolkata Police's imposition of Section 163 of BNSS in the central part of the city.
Oct 05, 2024, at 08:55 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress leaders faced massive backlash from locals at Mahishamari in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas after a minor girl was allegedly kidnapped and murdered triggering fresh public fury against the Mamata Banerjee government.
Minor girl kidnapped and murdered in Bengal; locals set police camp on fire, BJP slams Mamata govt
Oct 05, 2024, at 07:02 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: A minor girl has been allegedly kidnapped and murdered in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas, sparking anger among locals amid the public fury over the RG Kar case, media reports said.
Union Cabinet grants 'classical language' status to Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese
Oct 04, 2024, at 07:16 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Cabinet on Thursday conferred the status of 'classical language" 'to five more languages including Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, and Assamese.
Giriraj Singh, Chirag Paswan slam Mamata after Bihar students appearing for Bengal exams assaulted
Sep 27, 2024, at 05:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Two students from Bihar, who reached West Bengal to participate in an examination meant for recruitment, were assaulted by two men for taking part in a test outside their state, media reports said.
Sep 24, 2024, at 05:42 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The Calcutta High Court on Monday passed a sarcastic comment on the West Bengal government's annual dole for the Durga Puja organisers stating the amount of Rs. 85,000 offered is meagre and the state should consider hiking it up to Rs. 10 lakh, media reports said.
Sep 24, 2024, at 05:02 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress strongman Anubrata Mondal, who is a trusted aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday received a grand welcome by his party colleagues at his home district Birbhum after walking out of jail last night.
Bengal flood: Mamata Banerjee seals her state's land border with Jharkhand, Hemant Soren govt warns
Sep 20, 2024, at 08:37 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has ordered the sealing of her state's land border with Jharkhand blaming the neighbouring province for causing floods in her own backyard, media reports said.
Sep 20, 2024, at 04:49 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The agitating junior doctors Thursday announced to call off their strike Friday after 41 days of protest over the gruesome rape and murder of a PGT in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and announced that the medics would "partially" return to work from Saturday, especially at the essential services department given the flood situation in Bengal.
Sep 19, 2024, at 07:02 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The marathon second round of talks between agitating junior doctors and the Bengal government officials failed to see any resolution to the ongoing impasse with the medics stating they would continue their ceasework as no written assurance was provided to them on their demands regarding safety at the hospital.