Mamata Banerjee

TMC challenges Adhikari to name beneficiary, says he lack courage

11:07 pm December 19, 2020

Kolkata: Stung by desertions, a combative Trinamool Congress challenged Suvendu Adhikari, who led the exodus on Saturday, to name the person he alluded to as the beneficiary ”bhaipo” (nephew) of the party. There is no aspirant for the chief minister’s post from the family of TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, senior party leader Kalyan Banerjee told newspersons here. Referring to the […]

HM’s remark against custodial torture, a welcome move

Amid rebellion in TMC, Shah on two-day visit to Bengal

3:12 pm December 18, 2020

Kolkata: Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Kolkata on Friday night on a two-day visit to take stock of the BJP’s affairs in the state as the assembly elections draw near, amid a rebellion within the ruling Trinamool Congress. Speculations are rife that heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari, who quit the Trinamool Congress and gave up […]

Stormy Mamata battles tempest ahead of Bengal polls

10:40 pm December 17, 2020

Kolkata/New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee was Thursday waging a hardy battle with the Modi government that demanded three of her IPS officers on central deputation against her will, and another with mutinous TMC leaders led by a regional satrap seeking to thwart her bid for a third term in office. As the West Bengal chief minister […]

Mamata inaugurates med college campus, new police battalion in Coochbehar

7:40 pm December 15, 2020

Coochbehar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday inaugurated the campus of a newly built medical college and hospital here, and said the facility meets a long-term demand of the locals. Work for setting up Maharaja Dipendra Narayan Medical College and Hospital had commenced in February 2019 on a 25- acre land, Banerjee said. The college, […]

Nadda promises OBC status for left out Hindu backward castes

Attack on Nadda outburst of people’s anger against BJP: TMC MP Abhishek

11:18 pm December 10, 2020

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday termed the attack on BJP national president J P Nadda’s convoy in West Bengal as an outburst of people’s anger, while claiming that the saffron party has not stood by the people of the state during hardships faced by them. Nadda’s convoy was pelted with stones by alleged TMC workers at Sirakol in Banerjee’s constituency […]