Launching the state-of-the-art financial hub at Jyoti Basu Nagar (New Town) on Wednesday, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said, “This financial hub which will be of international standard, wil

The wind of change sweeping the state has not left the corporate sector unaffected in Bengal.

Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee asserted that the Left Front would once again come to power after the next Assembly elections. “I am (in power) and I will remain so,” he added. Mr Bhattacharjee was reacting to a statement made by Trinamul Congress MP Sudip Bandopadhyay during a Trinamul Congress rally in the city on Wednesday.

Railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced jobs for “anyone” who would provide information prior to any “sabotage” of the railway properties.

Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had to face an embarrassing situation in the Assembly when his own party MLA asked him if he was satisfied with the role of the police. Mr Bhattacharjee who is also the state home minister was giving a statement on the violence in the state during the Question Hour in the House. He told the

It is becoming increasingly evident that the Left Front government is reconciled to its fate. One could hear a painful and plaintive farewell note in the statement that commerce and industry minister Nirupam Sen made on the floor of the Assembly on Wednesday. “Today we are in power but tomorrow someone else may be in power. It is natural in parliamentary democracy that one political party will come to power and another will exit,” he said.

Despite the protest strike call by the Left parties and the BJP-led NDA over the price hike of petro-products, the Centre on Sunday ruled out the possibility to rollback the price hike.

Citu, the trade union of the CPI(M), has called a day-long transport strike across the state on Saturday, protesting the hike in the prices of petro products. All public vehicles will be under the pur-view of the strike, excepting the private vehicles and the railways.

The railways plan to provide free one-room flats to homeless squatters living next to railway tracks, railway minister Mamata Banerjee announced here Sunday. While the minister claimed this rehabilitation scheme will be for the entire country, political observers here believe this is targeted only at next year’s Assembly polls in West Bengal, in which Ms Banerjee, Trinamul Congress president, is determined to defeat the ruling Left Front.

The state government has refused to give its consent to a CBI probe into the derailment of the Gyaneswari Express, which led to the death of 148 persons.