Mamata Banerjee

Mamata demands Presidents Rule in WB

Kolkata (PTI): Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday sought immediate dismissal of the Left Front government in West Bengal by the Centre for its failure to maintain law and order from the trouble-torn hills in the...

Talks over Lalgarh agitation inconclusive

Lalgarh: Even as the agitation and siege by tribals at Lalgarh in Paschim Medinipur entered its tenth day, a 12-hour bandh called by the SUCI in the adjacent area of Jhargram paralysed life. Some of the detained tribals have...

Trinamool leader Ajit Panja dead

Kolkata: Ajit Panja, former Union Minister and one of the founder members of the Trinamool Congress, died at a private hospital here on Friday. He was 72 and is survived by a son and a daughter. He was suffering from ...

Ganguly starts by penning columns

India's News.Net Friday 14th November, 2008 (IANS) Quickly settling down into a new life after retiring from international cricket, former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly Friday began penning columns on the One-Day home series...

When leviathans rise

At a time when the world is teetering on the brink of recession, a book chronicling the familiar story of China and India’s collective rise may seem out of place. Robyn Meredith, Forbes’ Hong Kong-based foreign affairs...

Kalaichandi blast: some vital questions

The credibility of the Trinamool Congress chief has come under scrutiny. While the Left parties have been quick to describe the incident as yet another evidence of attempts to create anarchy in the State by forces that are in...

Life term for CPI(M) leader in Tapasi murder case

Kolkata: A senior local leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a supporter of the party were sentenced on Wednesday by a court in Chandanagore to life imprisonment for the murder of Tapasi Malik at Singur in West...

Did Modi offer Rs. 30,000 crore in sops to Tata Motors?

AHMEDABAD: The Narendra Modi government is claimed to have offered over Rs. 30,000 crore in sops to Tata Motors to bring the Nano car project to Gujarat. Not only has the Modi government agreed to provide a soft loan of Rs....

Lasting memories, a lasting legacy

Sourav Ganguly waves to the crowd during the victory parade in Nagpur on Monday. It’s fashionable for today’s cricketers to be aggressive, yet till Sourav took absolute control of the team (early 2001, about a year after he got...

Mamata’s charge against CPI(M)

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee alleged on Monday that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was set on “forcibly re-capturing” Nandigram where it had suffered major setbacks in the rural polls in May and is ...

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