In his inaugural speech at the Panchayati Raj Conference in Kolkata, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke at length about the importance of three-tier panchayat system.

In his inaugural speech at the Panchayati Raj Conference in Kolkata, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke at length about the importance of three-tier panchayat system.

Shedding her earlier conciliatory approach, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday served the Maoists a seven-day ultimatum: choose between peace negotiations and violence. “I am not closing the door on peaceful negotiations. But murder and a peace process cannot go together,” she said.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday won a major legal battle against Tata Motors when the Calcutta high court ruled that her government was well within its rights to re-acquire nearly 1,000 acres of land in Singur that the previous state government had allotted to the automobile major for its now defunct Nano plant.

Mamata Banerjee could not have asked for better Puja gifts. Wednesday brought “three cheers” for the chief minister of West Bengal. She not only won Bhowanipore Assembly seat by a record margin (78 per cent) and snatched Basirhat North Assembly seat from the Left Front, but also received a most favourable Singur ruling from Calcutta high court.

Chief minister and Trinamul Congress candidate for Bhowanipore byelection Mamata Banerjee postponed her scheduled roadshow in the constituency on
Tuesday because of her visit to the earthquake-hit North Bengal and Sikkim. “I have been forced to cancel my election rally on Tuesday. I offer my
apologies to my brothers and sisters in Bhowanipore about this decision. Now I will reschedule my meeting for Thursday,” she added.

The impeachment of Justice Soumitra Sen has greatly upset former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. Mr Chatter-jee, who does not hesitate to call a spade a spade, described the impeachment by the Rajya Sabha as a “travesty of justice.”

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that the cash-strapped state government would seek public-private-partnership (PPP) for the beautification of the riverfront.

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Shedding the politics of “us” and “them”, the Mamata Banerjee government on Friday observed former chief minister Jyoti Basu’s 98th birth anniversary.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee hijacked a heavyweight Congress leader and party spokesperson Sukhendu Sekhar Roy to nominate him as the Trinamul Congress candidate for the Rajya Sabha election scheduled for July 22. The decision was taken in a meeting of the Trinamul Congress executive committee on Friday afternoon.