New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting West Bengal and Odisha tomorrow to survey the ground situation after Cyclone Amphan clobbered the eastern states, leaving at least 72 dead and blowing up shanties, uprooting thousands of trees and swamping low-lying areas, said the India Meteorological Department. Earlier in the day, West Bengal […]
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday strongly condemned the “Goli maaro (shoot the traitors)” slogans that were reportedly raised by a section of BJP workers on their way to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s rally at Shahid Minar ground in Kolkata. “I condemn those who raised the ‘goli maar’ slogan on […]
Kolkata : West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday decided to protest against denial of invitation to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the inauguration of the East-West Metro corridor with a senior party MP and an MLA deciding to boycott the function, sources said. Senior TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and MLA Sujit Bose have […]
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she will boycott the opposition meeting convened by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on January 13 to protest the violence unleashed in the state allegedly by Left Front and Congress workers during a trade union strike. The 24-hour nationwide strike by central trade unions in […]
Bengaluru: BJP leaders at Karnataka has taken serious objections to Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee handing over Rs 5 lakh compensation to kin of Nousheen, one of the two deceased during anti-CAA protest in Mangaluru on Dec 19. BJP state unit president and Dakshina Kannada district MP Nalin Kumar Kateel said the gesture will send […]
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday paid her tribute to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birth anniversary, describing him as a statesman who rose above partisan politics for the country’s good. The Trinamool Congress supremo, who had shared a cordial relationship with the veteran leader, further said that […]
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were making contradictory statements on NRC and wondered who was speaking the truth. Banerjee, while leading a protest march against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and NRC from the Swami Vivekananda statue at Bidhan […]
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday lashed out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the new citizenship law, which she said has left the country burning, and asked him to douse the fire. The TMC supremo said that if Aadhaar is not a proof of citizenship as per the home […]
New Delhi : Ten people with criminal background have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the violence near Jamia Millia Islamia University here, police said on Tuesday, adding that none of them were students. The accused were arrested on Monday night, they said. Sources said that the accused were identified through videos taken during […]
Kolkata : Describing her upcoming visit to New Delhi and meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “courtesy call,” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that it was a “constitutional obligation”. “It’s a courtesy meet. It is our constitutional obligation to meet each other to work for the country,” Ms. Banerjee […]
