KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Sunday that her government will seek the death penalty for those accused in the sexual assault and murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor, whose body was discovered at a government hospital in north Kolkata last Friday. The case will be pursued in a fast track…
NEW DELHI: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, a Marxist leader, passed away at his Kolkata home on Thursday at the age of 80. Renowned for his pragmatic approach, Bhattacharjee set aside ideological convictions to promote industrialisation in his state but will also be remembered for witnessing the end of the 34-year-old Left Front…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay Calcutta high court‘s May 22 judgment quashing inclusion of 77 communities, 75 of them Muslims, in West Bengal‘s OBC list and sought details of surveys determining their social and educational backwardness and under-representation in govt jobs requiring their inclusion in the OBC list.While agreeing to examine…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee on Friday said her recent statement on violence-hit Bangladesh was “distorted” and took on the foreign ministry for criticising her comment.“I know the federal structure very well. I was an MP seven times, I was Union minister twice. I know the MEA policy better than anyone else,” she…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said, she will ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi “to scrap the Niti Ayog and restore the Planning Commission,” at the Niti Ayog governing council meeting on Saturday, since the original version of the public policy think tank was an “effective platform…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the central government and the secretaries to the governors of West Bengal and Kerala regarding separate petitions filed by the two state governments. The petition challenges the decisions of their governors to keep several bills pending for an extended period, withhold assent, or reserve them…
NEW DELHI: Abhishek Banerjee, TMC leader and Diamond Harbour MP, joined the opposition INDIA bloc leaders on Wednesday to criticise the Union Budget, which he called “anti-people” aimed at “appeasing and compensating” BJP allies in the NDA.In the no-holds-barred attack on the BJP in Lok Sabha, Mamata Banerjee’s nephew said “B in budget stood for…
NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh government on Tuesday officially flagged objection to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee‘s recent statement on providing “shelter to helpless people”, claiming that her remarks gave room for it to be taken out of context and cause confusion between the two neighbors, local media reported.Sending an official note to New Delhi,…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday offered to provide shelter to those in distress amid the ongoing violence in Bangladesh. She cited the United Nations Resolution on refugees as justification for her stance, considering the severe law and order breakdown that has gripped Bangladesh in recent days.“I should not be speaking…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday found itself engulfed in a chaotic environ as a medley of senior advocates and lawyers appearing for various parties attempted to speak in one voice as soon as it took up a petition filed by West Bengal govt challenging a Calcutta HC order cancelling appointment of 25,000 teachers and…
