Kolkata, Nov 23 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has defended her decision to rope in intellectuals and theatre personalities into railway committees and their so-called hefty salaries that have come under ...

Kolkata, Nov 23 (IANS) While ruling out divestment of any unit under her ministry, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked the government to consider giving shares of state-run companies it planned ...

Kolkata, Nov 22 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose Trinamool Congress is the second largest constituent in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ...

Mumbai, Nov 21 (IANS) Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday announced the setting up of a museum here in memory of the victims of last year's Mumbai terror attacks. Launching three new ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar met Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee here Friday to convey her opposition to certain provisions of the ...

New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Bowing to angry protests from opposition parties and farmers, the government Friday agreed to restore the earlier sugarcane prices. The issue was resolved at an all-party ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury Wednesday criticised Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to ensure safety of train passengers. Referring to the recent ...

Kolkata, Nov 17 (IANS) Noted Bengali singer Kabir Suman, who is a Trinamool Congress MP, Tuesday said that he wanted to resign from the Lok Sabha. "I would like to submit my ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 (ANI): Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has assured that in the upcoming rail budget, a white paper on organizational, operational and financial position of the railways will ...

Kolkata, Nov 16 (IANS) A day after noted singer Kabir Suman criticised mainstay political parties for misusing government funds, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said it was his democratic right to ...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress Monday rejected reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is unhappy with party leader and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and had asked her for ...

Nalikul (West Bengal), Nov 15 (IANS) The Railways will give jobs to people who help prevent accidents or provide tip-off about sabotage, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said Sunday, asking people to ...

Jaipur, Nov 14 (ANI): The Delhi-bound Mandore Express which was on its way from Jodhpur to Delhi derailed this morning with some portion of the track penetrating its AC compartment, leaving ...

Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee now wants to build a rail coach factory jointly with the West Bengal government on the Singur plot abandoned by Tata Motors, ...

Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) A day after state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) officials visited the abandoned Tata Motors land in West Bengal's Singur, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata ...

New Delhi, Nov 12(ANI): Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded imposition of President's rule in West Bengal under article 356 of the constitution. Addressing the All ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) All leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), particularly its politburo member Sitaram Yechury, have a close association with Maoists, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway ...

Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) A senior West Bengal minister Wednesday favoured early elections to the state assembly, saying "people have turned" against the Left Front government. "The people's mandate is against ...

By T.G. Biju New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The All India Forward Bloc, a major Left Front partner, is likely to review its decades-old association with the Communist Party of India-Marxist ...

Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) The operation to flush out Maoists from Lalgarh in West Bengal would continue till the situation was "completely under control", senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee said Wednesday, ...

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) A jubilant Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Tuesday said the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front had been swept away by a "democratic tsunami" in the ...

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) A resurgent Trinamool Congress-Congress combine Tuesday swept the West Bengal assembly by-elections winning eight of the 10 seats, dealing a blow to the beleaguered ruling Left Front ...

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress-Congress combine won five of 10 West Bengal assembly seats and was ahead in three others, delivering a crushing blow to the ruling Left Front ...

Kolkata, Nov 9 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Monday threatened to file a defamation case against West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for alleging that her partymen were aiding the ...

Kolkata, Nov.9 (ANI): Trinamool Congress chief and Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that her party did not support Maoist violence and questioned the source of ammunition of CPI ...

Dhaka, Nov 9 (IANS) Neglected for long, Bangladesh's railway is up for a make-over to cope with the growing need for connectivity within the country and to prepare for joining the ...

Naihati (West Bengal), Nov 8 (IANS) The Railways will set up a research centre named after novelist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay if the West Bengal government failed to start work on the ...

New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury has denied allegations that the Marxists and Maoists were in league in West Bengal and alleged that the ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 7 (IANS) India's Home Decretary G.K. Pillai Saturday wound up bilateral security talks with Nepal here with no progress in the new extradition treaty proposed by New ...

Kolkata, Nov 6 (IANS) With the Left fast losing its grip over West Bengal under the assault of the Trinamool Congress-led opposition, the by-polls to 10 assembly seats Saturday will be ...