Four Trinamool workers arrested after professor’s complaint
April 14th, 2012 - 5:12 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) Four people were arrested Saturday following a counter police complaint by a Jadavpore University professor, who was earlier arrested for allegedly circulating allegedly defamatory cartoons ... Read more...
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Jadavpore professor arrested for Mamata cartoons, granted bail (Roundup)
April 14th, 2012 - 12:33 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) A Jadavpore University professor was arrested for allegedly circulating defamatory cartoons of some Trinamool Congress leaders including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, attracting widespread ... Read more...
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Jadavpore professor arrested for Mamata cartoons, granted bail (Second Lead)
April 13th, 2012 - 7:21 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) A Jadavpore University professor was arrested early Friday for allegedly circulating defamatory cartoons of some Trinamool Congress leaders including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, ... Read more...
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Professor, neighbour arrested for Mamata cartoon (Lead)
April 13th, 2012 - 5:07 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) No laughing matter, this. A Jadavpore University professor was arrested here early Friday for allegedly circulating defamatory cartoons of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ... Read more...
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Professor arrested for circulating Mamata cartoon
April 13th, 2012 - 3:28 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) A Jadavpore University professor was arrested early Friday for allegedly circulating defamatory cartoons of some Trinamool Congress leaders, including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, ... Read more...
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No relief for ex-railway minister in graft case
April 12th, 2012 - 12:23 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to grant a breather to former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief in a corruption case and allowed the ... Read more...
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Nitish, Rabri Devi file nominations
April 11th, 2012 - 7:31 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, April 11 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi and former chief minister Rabri Devi Wednesday filed nominations for legislative council elections, officials said.Kumar ... Read more...
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Foodgrain pile up scare in Punjab
April 4th, 2012 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, April 4 (IANS) With huge stocks of wheat and rice occupying foodgrain storage facilities across Punjab, the government has set the alarm bells ringing of its "problem of ... Read more...
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Coalition hiccups come to the fore in parliament
April 1st, 2012 - 9:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 1 (IANS) The compulsions of coalition politics were more than evident in the first half of parliament's budget session and analysts feel the going will be ... Read more...
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Stress on safety, security, punctuality: Mukul Roy
March 26th, 2012 - 4:29 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) New Railway Minister Mukul Roy, while parrying queries on whether the railways will roll back the freight fare hike, said Monday he hoped to improve ... Read more...
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Trinamool Congress: wins politics, fails governance (West Bengal Newsletter)
March 25th, 2012 - 1:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Haunted by scams and bullied by its allies, the Congress may have appeased Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by paving way for her nominees to ... Read more...
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Bengal minister urges Pranab to reconsider gold duty hike
March 24th, 2012 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) West Bengal Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee Satuday urged union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to reconsider the budget proposal of increasing basic customs duty on standard ... Read more...
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Trivedi’s rail fare hike rationale absurd: Trinamool MP
March 22nd, 2012 - 9:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) On the day when newly sworn-in Railway Minister Mukul Roy announced a roll back in the rail passenger fare hike in the Lok Sabha, Trinamool ... Read more...
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Lalu Prasad hospitalised
March 22nd, 2012 - 8:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here Thursday ... Read more...
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Mukul rolls back fare hike to please Mamata
March 22nd, 2012 - 7:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Stating that it impacted poor people, new Railway Minister Mukul Roy Thursday rolled back the fare hike in suburban and non-suburban, sleeper, air conditioned ... Read more...
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Congress backtracks, Mukul Roy, four others elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha
March 22nd, 2012 - 7:47 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 22 (IANS) All five Rajya Sabha nominees from West Bengal - four of the ruling Trinamool Congress and another fielded by the opposition Left Front - were elected ... Read more...
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Government rolls back railway fare hike (Lead)
March 22nd, 2012 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Stating that it impacted poor people, new Railway Minister Mukul Roy Thursday rolled back the fare hike in suburban and non-suburban, sleeper, air-conditioned chair ... Read more...
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UPA to meet thrice a week to decide parliament strategy
March 21st, 2012 - 1:32 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The Congress may have finally woken up to the need to improve its floor management in parliament and has decided to meet with allies ... Read more...
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Mukul Roy sworn in, to take over railway ministry (Third Lead)
March 20th, 2012 - 8:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP Mukul Roy was Tuesday sworn in as cabinet minister and given the railways portfolio in place of party colleague Dinesh Trivedi, ... Read more...
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BJP questions PM on Trivedi’s ouster
March 20th, 2012 - 8:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday questioned the resignation of Dinesh Trivedi as railway minister saying that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister ... Read more...
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Mukul Roy sworn in as cabinet minister (Second Lead)
March 20th, 2012 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP Mukul Roy was Tuesday sworn in as a cabinet minister and is expected to replace party MP Dinesh Trivedi, who had ... Read more...
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Mukul Roy sworn in as cabinet minister (Lead)
March 20th, 2012 - 12:12 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy was Tuesday sworn in as a cabinet minister. He is expected to take over as the new railway minister ... Read more...
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Want UPA but won’t tolerate humiliation: Mamata (Lead)
March 19th, 2012 - 11:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) After ensuring replacement of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi for hiking fares, Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said she ... Read more...
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PM regrets Trivedi’s going; Mukul Roy to be sworn in Tuesday (Roundup)
March 19th, 2012 - 10:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday praised outgoing Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi and regretted that he had to leave, but Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee ... Read more...
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President accepts Trivedi’s resignation (Lead)
March 19th, 2012 - 10:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Mukul Roy will be sworn-in Tuesday as cabinet minister to replace his party colleague Dinesh Trivedi who has resigned as railway minister, official sources ... Read more...
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Trivedi replacement a ‘farce’, says CPI-M (Lead, Changing dateline)
March 19th, 2012 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) The resignation of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi isa "drama" but it reveals the factionalism in Trinamool Congress, the CPI-M said Monday.The entire issue is aimed ... Read more...
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Roy to be new railway minister; swearing in Tuesday
March 19th, 2012 - 8:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress's Mukul Roy will be sworn-in Tuesday as cabinet minister to replace his party colleague Dinesh Trivedi who has resigned as railway minister, ... Read more...
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CPI-M lampoons Trinamool over Trivedi
March 19th, 2012 - 6:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The "drama" of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi's resignation shows the Trinamool Congress is not concerned about the railways' safety aspects, the CPI-M said Monday."The drama ... Read more...
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PM regrets Trivedi’s departure as railway minister (Lead)
March 19th, 2012 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS)Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said he regretted the departure of Dinesh Trivedi as railway minister and signalled that the new incumbent will have the ... Read more...
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Rollback of fares is PM’s prerogative: Mamata
March 19th, 2012 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) The rollback in passenger tariff, proposed in the 2012-13 rail budget, was a prerogative of the prime minister, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool ... Read more...
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Quiet freight hike to pull railways out of red
March 19th, 2012 - 4:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) His fare hike proposals may have turned controversial for political reasons, but what has gone largely unnoticed is Dinesh Trivedi's quiet move to increase ... Read more...
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Rail fare hike will put strain on common man: Mamata
March 19th, 2012 - 3:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Monday said the party was opposed to the hike in passenger fares proposed ... Read more...
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Will recommend acceptance of Trivedi’s resignation: PM
March 19th, 2012 - 2:33 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said he had received Dinesh Trivedi's resignation as railway minister and proposed to send it to President Pratibha ... Read more...
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Trivedi’s resignation under PM’s consideration: Pranab
March 19th, 2012 - 1:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday said Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi had submitted his resignation to Manmohan Singh and the matter was under the prime ... Read more...
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Trivedi says adieu, to attend party meet
March 19th, 2012 - 12:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Dinesh Trivedi, who quit as railway minister, said Monday he would visit Rail Bhavan to bid farewell to his colleagues and also attend the ... Read more...
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