Chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that 400 acres from Tata Motors’ abandoned Nano project at Singur would be returned to the unwilling farmers. Chairing the first Cabinet meeting of the new government just five hours after being sworn in, Ms Banerjee also took some other stupendous decisions like invitation to Justice

West Bengal's new Trinamool Congress government will give due respect to the Opposition and welcome constructive suggestions, industry and commerce minister Partha Chatterjee said here on Saturday.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday donated1crore from her earning from auction of her paintings to various relief funds run by the state government.

Mamata Banerjee, who ended the uninterrupted 34-year reign of the Left in West Bengal, on Friday made history when she was sworn in as the first woman chief minister of the state at the head of a 38-member Trinamool Congress-Congress coalition government.

The credit for a land-sliding victory of the Congress Party in Assam certainly goes to chief minister Tarun Gogoi but contribution of his health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who with his managerial skill and aggressive management of elections succeeded in outsmarting the opponents, cannot be ignored.

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.

Veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi here on Wednesday scripted a new history by taking over the office of Assam chief minister for the third successive term. Assam governor J.B. Patnaik administered the oath of office and secrecy to 76-year-old Gogoi in Assamese at Durbara Hall of Raj Bhavan.

Ms Mamata Banerjee will be happy if Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee attends her swearing-in ceremony at Raj Bhavan, a Trinamul Congress MLA said on Wednesday. Ms Banerjee will take oath as the new chief minister at 1.01 pm on Friday.

In what was a mere formality, veteran Congress leader Tarun Gogoi was unanimously elected as leader of the Assam Pradesh Congress Legislature Party for the third consecutive term on Tuesday.

Left red-faced by Abdur Rezzak Mollah’s outburst against outgoing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and state industry minister Nirupam Sen, the CPI(M) leadership on Tuesday censured the former land and land reforms minister and party state committee member. The action was taken in the state committee meeting which was held to review the Left Front’s electoral debacle in the polls. The meeting was chaired by senior leader Benoy Konar.