A race has begun in the state Congress for the lone Rajya Sabha seat which the party is entitled to in the election for Upper House which will take place later in July. The terms of five Rajya Sabha MPs in the state will come to an

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday lashed out against the BJP and the CPI(M) for trying to destabilise the elected government by cashing in on the civil society’s movement over the Lokpal bill issue.

Launching a scathing attack against the CPI(M), Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that the people of the country had totally rejected the Left which was now confined to only one state. “The Left has become irrelevant in India’s polity because the majority of the people of the country have rejected them. The reason for the

The death of 18 babies in the past two days at B.C. Roy Hospital for Children has triggered intense public anger here, with irate relatives of the dead babies ransacking the hospital and putting up a roadblock in the nearby

Ten days after taking oath of office, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday occupied her refurbished chamber. She had been working from the adjacent conference room because the chief minister’s chamber was being

Keeping the pre-poll promises she made to Muslims, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Urdu would be given second-language status in districts with a 10 per cent or more Urdu-speaking population.

Keeping the pre-poll promises she made to Muslims, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Urdu would be given second-language status in districts with a 10 per cent or more Urdu-speaking population.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that a leader should lead by example. “I am not blaming the employees or the officers (of the Writers’ Buildings). The leader should himself has to set an example. It is not enough for a government to just pass an order; it should also know how to implement it,” she said in an apparent dig at her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

Ms Mamata Banerjee and Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee seldom came face to face in the last 11 years when the latter was at the helm, except on one occasion when the then governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi brought them together at Raj Bhavan to resolve the Singur issue.

Maya Ray, the widow of last Congress chief minister of the state Siddhartha Shankar Ray, regretted that he was not present to see the Left Front’s exit from power and Mamata Banerjee take over as the new chief minister of Bengal. “How I wish my husband had lived for six more months, then he would have witnessed this great achievement of Mamata Banerjee whom he was extremely fond of,” she added.