New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram can be at his expansive best when he is entertaining. But then his revelations are strictly off the record - if he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Austerity is not a new mantra for Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, famous for her cotton jhola, crumpled cotton saris and trademark hawai ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Arambagh (West Bengal), Nov 4 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asked her party workers to "resist" terror perpetrated by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres in this belt, and ...

Kolkata, Nov 1(ANI): Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday retorted to various allegations by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee and accused him of having links with the Maoists. Addressing ...

New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) Alleging a conspiracy behind the train hold-up in West Midnapore, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to probe the "support" ...

Srinagar, Oct 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that Maoist violence needed to be dealt with "in a holistic way", with a combination of security measures and administrative steps ...

New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday demanded that the central government launch an army operation in Maoist-affected Lalgarh region of West Bengal and ...

New Delhi/Kolkata, Oct. 27 (ANI): Aiming to derive the maximum political capital from the West Bengal Government's inability to counter the Naxal menace effectively, Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata ...

Kolkata, Oct 26 (IANS) Suspected Maoist guerrillas shot dead a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader in West Bengal's violence-hit West Midnapore district Monday afternoon, police said. "Pratap Nayak was shot dead ...

Kolkata, Oct 21 (IANS) Expressing shock over the Maoist attack on a West Bengal police station Tuesday, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday urged the central government to investigate whether the ...

Kolkata, Oct 16 (IANS) Condemning "unabated violence" allegedly triggered by the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Friday demanded the arrest of Chief ...

Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday alleged there was a conspiracy to kill her, saying a car with a 'press' sticker on it tried to hit her vehicle, ...

Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday demanded withdrawal of central forces from West Bengal's troubled Lalgarh region. "I want the central forces to be withdrawn ...

Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged a conspiracy to kill her, claiming that a car with a press sticker on it tried to hit her vehicle in ...

Kolkata, Oct 11 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday charged West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with orchestrating attacks on her party supporters in Hooghly district and demanded his immediate ...

Kolkata, Oct 10 (IANS) Deploying paramilitary forces in West Bengal's violence-hit Lalgarh was a "mistake" committed by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata ...

Siliguri (West Bengal), Oct 4 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday apologised to the people of this northern West Bengal town as her party had failed to form the board ...

Kolkata, Oct 1 (IANS) After a long-drawn political battle over the mayor's seat in Siliguri Municipal Corporation, the Congress Thursday formed the city civic board with support from West Bengal's ruling ...

Kolkata, Oct 1 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Thursday accused the Congress of breaching the rules of alliance politics, hours after the latter formed the civic board in the Siliguri ...