Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said he would discuss the financial situation of West Bengal with chief minister Mamata Banerjee and state finance minister Amit Mitra on Sunday.

After a week’s politics in New Delhi, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday returned state with a list of 18 ministers who will be administered oath on Friday. Though, chief minister was at his residence and avoided meeting legislators waiting in the scorching sun at Lokpriye Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, sources in his

The GJM has extended its support to the Trinamul Congress-led government in the state. Even the GJM has offered to sit on the treasury benches to show solidarity to the government. GJM president Bimal Gurung will meet

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee failed to make the Tata Motors’ agreement with the state government over Singur project public on Thursday due to legal complications. On Wednesday, the chief minister had announced that the entire agreement on the Nano project (now abandoned) at Singur would be shared with the

For the first time in 34 years, the Left Front on Friday elected Suryakanta Mishra as the leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly.

The Lokayukta has issued notices to former CM V.S. Achuthanandan and his son Arun Kumar on a complaint that government officials were sent unnecessarily to a finishing school under the Institute of Human Resources Development, where the latter worked. The complainant, Salim Madavoor of the Socialist Yuva Janata, said Mr

United Liberation Front of Asom chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa on Wednesday sought an apology publicly from the families of the 13 schoolchildren killed in a tragic bomb blast masterminded by the Ulfa in northern Assam’s Dhemaji district on August 15, 2004.

Defying diktat of the party mandarins not to criticise the party line in public, former state land and land reforms minister and state committee member of the Marxist party Abdur Rezzak Mollah on Wednesday fired another salvo against the party satraps.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a meeting with Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday to discuss the financial condition of the state government. This proposed meeting assumes significance as the Congress and the Trinamul Congress have alleged that the earlier Left Front government has made the state bankrupt.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday paid an unscheduled ten minute visit to state-run Bangur Institute of Neurology here on her way to the office at writers' buildings.