Mamata raps civic bodies for negligence in preventing dengue
September 7th, 2012 - 10:52 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 7 (IANS) Criticising civic bodies run by both her Trinamool Congress as also the opposition Left Front for negligence in combating dengue, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata ... Read more...
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Mamata slams media for abetting suicides, rapes
August 25th, 2012 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 25 (IANS) Launching a scathing attack on the media, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday accused it of abetting suicides and rapes and warned that police ... Read more...
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Mamata lashes out at spineless politicians, triggers debate (Lead)
July 8th, 2012 - 1:06 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) The number of "so-called political leaders having no spines" is growing, a post on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Facebook profile said Saturday, triggering ... Read more...
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Forward Bloc legislator suspended from Bengal assembly
June 23rd, 2012 - 12:23 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) A Forward Bloc legislator was Friday suspended from the West Begnal Assembly for the rest of the day for using "unparliamentary" words targeting Chief Minister ... Read more...
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Congress urges Mamata to reconsider renaming Indira Bhavan
December 31st, 2011 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Congress Saturday requested Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to reconsider her decision to rename "Indira Bhawan" - which briefly served ... Read more...
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Trinamool rebuffs Congress protests over renaming building
December 30th, 2011 - 7:05 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) The Congress is creating a "needless issue" over renaming of a guest house which briefly served as the residence of late prime minister Indira Gandhi ... Read more...
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Tiny lane delayed fire fighting operation
December 10th, 2011 - 12:22 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) The tiny lane leading to the AMRI Hospital annexe building proved a major hindrance in the firefighting operation as the fire tenders found it difficult to ... Read more...
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Bengal government comes down hard on ‘callous’ hospital
December 9th, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, other ministers, the Kolkata mayor and security officials ripped apart the AMRI Hospital authorities for "callousness", "negligence" and for ... Read more...
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11 injured in Kolkata violence
November 7th, 2011 - 1:05 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 6 (IANS) Ten people and a policeman were injured in a pitched battle between cops and a mob in south Kolkata's Bhowanipore area after disturbances over a ... Read more...
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First in decades: Bengal ministers plunge into pujas
October 1st, 2011 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Oct 1 (IANS) For the first time in three-and-a-half decades, West Bengal's ministers have openly joined in organising Durga Puja celebrations, shedding the political diffidence of the previous ... Read more...
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An eco-tourism park to come up near Kolkata
July 20th, 2011 - 3:18 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) An eco-tourism park will come up soon on the outskirts of Kolkata at the intiative of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee."We want to set up an ... Read more...
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Trinamool inciting Darjeeling violence: Bengal minister
February 11th, 2011 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 11 (IANS) West Bengal Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Asok Bhattacharya Friday accused the Trinamool Congress of trying to gain political mileage by inciting violence in the Darjeeling ... Read more...
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Dhaka-Siliguri bus service proposed
February 5th, 2011 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANI
By Salim RezaKolkata, Feb 5 (ANI): Bangladesh has proposed to West Bengal Government to open the Dhaka-Siliguri bus service, as both the countries have agreed on having a multi-modal connectivity.India has also ... Read more...
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Abu Dhabi will review apartment safety steps
February 2nd, 2011 - 5:46 pm ICT by ANI
Dubai, Feb 2 (ANI): The Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA) in Abu Dhabi has said that it will be reviewing apartment safety steps, after a 13-year-old Indian girl fell to her death ... Read more...
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Illegal urban construction posing natural disaster threat to Darjeeling
November 27th, 2010 - 3:13 pm ICT by ANI
Darjeeling (West Bengal), Nov.27 (ANI): The massive construction of high-rise buildings, a majority of them illegal, has led to a degradation of the soil texture in the Darjeeling Hills area of West ... Read more...
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Abu Dhabi to launch new building rules next year
August 17th, 2010 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, Aug 17 (IANS/WAM) The Abu Dhabi government will train representatives of construction industry on new building rules to be enforced in the emirate next year.
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Politics eclipses civic issues in Bengal municipal polls
May 23rd, 2010 - 2:12 pm ICT by IANS
By Pradipta Tapadar
Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) Political issues and not civic problems of immediate concern to the common man are taking centrestage in the upcoming West Bengal municipal polls, considered the ... Read more...
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Tamang’s death may drag Darjeeling Hills into chaos (News Analysis)
May 22nd, 2010 - 12:28 am ICT by IANS
Darjeeling, May 21 (IANS) The killing of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL) chief Madan Tamang may worsen the situation in the troubled Darjeeling Hills, political observors and major parties feel.
The 64-year-old Tamang, ... Read more...
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Gorkha League chief Madan Tamang killed, Darjeeling tense
May 21st, 2010 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS
Darjeeling, May 21 (IANS) Gorkha leader Madan Tamang, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL), was Friday stabbed to death allegedly by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) supporters in this West Bengal ... Read more...
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11-member committee to probe Stephen Court fire
March 29th, 2010 - 7:29 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) About a week after the killer fire at Kolkata's iconic Stephen Court, the West Bengal government Monday formed an 11-member probe panel to look into all aspects ... Read more...
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West Bengal to hike women’s quota in civic agencies
March 20th, 2010 - 7:24 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday said the women's quota in the elected seats of panchayat and municipal committees will be raised to 50 percent.
"I have told ... Read more...
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West Bengal committee to address solid waste management
March 3rd, 2010 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) The West Bengal government has formed an expert committee to address municipal solid waste management and recycling in various urban areas across the state, a minister said Wednesday.
"The ... Read more...
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UAE capital tightens fire safety codes for buildings
December 21st, 2009 - 11:11 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, Dec 21 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates is set to implement enhanced fire safety requirements for buildings in the capital from early 2010, WAM news agency reported Monday.
The city's Department ... Read more...
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Trinamool activists block West Bengal ministers from hospital
November 24th, 2009 - 12:04 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 23 (IANS) Two West Bengal ministers were Monday allegedly stopped from entering a hospital in the state's Siliguri town by a group of opposition Trinamool Congress activists, and were later ... Read more...
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Two toddlers killed, 200 shanties destroyed in West Bengal
October 25th, 2009 - 2:10 pm ICT by IANS
Siliguri (West Bengal), Oct 25 (IANS) Two children were killed and 200-odd shanties destroyed when a fire broke out in West Bengal's Siliguri town in the wee hours of Sunday, a senior ... Read more...
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Backing Congress in Siliguri not a political decision: CPI-M
October 1st, 2009 - 9:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Oct 1 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and West Bengal minister Ashok Bhattacharya Thursday said supporting the Congress in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation was not a political decision.
"We supported ... Read more...
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Ganguly had made up his mind before leaving for Chennai
October 7th, 2008 - 8:02 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Oct 7 (IANS) Sourav Ganguly had decided to retire from international cricket even before he left the city for Chennai to play for India A against New Zealand A in the ... Read more...
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Draft report on Bengal’s urban land ceiling Act ready
September 15th, 2008 - 9:42 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 15 (IANS) The committee set up to review the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act by the West Bengal has submitted its draft report, said Asok Bhattacharya, the state's municipal ... Read more...
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Documents destroyed in West Bengal secretariat fire (Lead)
August 7th, 2008 - 4:05 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 7 (IANS) There was a blaze in the first floor of the West Bengal government secretariat - Writer's Building - Thursday morning. And Minister of Fire Services has blamed the ... Read more...
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Writers Buildings in Kolkata catches fire
August 7th, 2008 - 3:36 pm ICT by ANI
Kolkata, Aug 7 (ANI): A major fire broke out this morning at the Writers Buildings here, and it took about two hours to douse it. The fire broke out in the ... Read more...
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Fire in West Bengal secretariat destroys documents
August 7th, 2008 - 12:01 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 7 (IANS) There was a blaze in the first floor of the West Bengal government secretariat - Writer's Building - Thursday morning, in which a large number of documents were ... Read more...
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Many non-Gorkhas support movement for separate state
June 21st, 2008 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
By Soudhriti Bhabani
Darjeeling, June 21 (IANS) They are not Gorkhas, yet many Marwaris, Bengalis, Biharis and others who have lived in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal for decades have been braving ... Read more...
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West Bengal ‘monitors’ GJM decision to form volunteer force
June 20th, 2008 - 7:24 pm ICT by IANS
By Soudhriti Bhabani
Darjeeling (West Bengal), June 20 (IANS) The West Bengal government was Friday monitoring the situation following the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha's (GJM) decision to form its own voluntary force in the ... Read more...
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Gorkha body promises tourist safety in Darjeeling
May 2nd, 2008 - 2:16 pm ICT by admin
Kolkata, May 2 (IANS) After West Bengal Municipal Affairs Minister Ashok Bhattacharya asked tourists not to visit Darjeeling this summer, Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) leaders Friday assured that tourists would be "completely ... Read more...
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Gorkha Janmukti Morcha activists to launch fast (Lead)
April 30th, 2008 - 9:02 pm ICT by admin
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) Leaders and activists of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), which is demanding a separate statehood for Darjeeling Hills, decided to go on a fast for an indefinite period ... Read more...
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