West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday warned that she would go on the warpath if the Centre did not accept within 15 days her demand for a three-year moratorium on interest payments a

In a bid to keep the minority vote bank in good humour ahead of the crucial panchayat elections, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday showered largesse on the Muslims of North 24 Parga

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday voiced displeasure over the April 16 meeting called by the Centre to discuss the NCTC issue, fearing its importance may get diluted due to other items on the agenda.

Undeterred by the wide-spread criticism over the circular directing government libraries to offer only a few selected government-friendly newspapers to their readers, the Mamata Banerjee government on Wednesday stuck to its decision.

The Mamata Banerjee government and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) may have agreed to accept whatever report the high power committee headed by Justice Shyamal Sen submits in June but the Adivasi Vik

Hundreds of shops and stalls were gutted when a massive fire devastated one of Kolkata’s oldest markets. The fire broke out in north Kolkata’s Hatibagan Market at around 2.45 am, sparking horrors of the pre-dawn fire at the AMRI Hospital in December 2011. Mercifully, unlike the hospital blaze which had resulted in the deaths of 93 people by asphyxia, no one was killed or injured on Thursday.

Making it clear emphatically that she would not allow the bandh to shut down the state on Tuesday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee threatened to use the service break rule against those government employees who would not report for duty. “Our government is determined to keep Bengal moving on the day of the bandh. If any government employee does not report for duty or transport employee does not bring out the public vehicle then he can face the service break,” she warned.

In a major incident of political violence in West Bengal, two CPI(M) leaders, including a former MLA, were brutally killed in Burdwan’s Dewandighi area on Wednesday morning. The deceased, Pradip Tah and Kamal Gayen, were both CPI(M)’s distict committee members while the former was also the former MLA of Burdwan North constituency. Another CPI(M) worker and a Trinamul Congress worker were badly injured and were undergoing treatment.

Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Surjya Kanta Mishra on Monday said that no self-respecting IAS or IPS officers would like to stay in the state because of the prevailing atmosphere. “The chief minister often laments that she does not have adequate number of IAS and IPS officers. I have told her that all self-respecting IAS and IPS officers will leave because it is not possible for them to toe the government line all the time,” he added. Dr Mishra was speaking on the sidelines of a programme at the Mahajati Sadan.

Facing flak for the power failure during former Pakistan cricket captain and president of Tehreek-e-Insaf Party Imran Khan’s programme at the Kolkata Literary Meet, the organisers of the event on Tues