Rama Prasad Goenka, one of the country’s biggest industrialists and the architect of RPG Enterprises, died at his Kolkata residence early Sunday morning.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was clinically better today and her vital parameters had stabilised, a medical bulletin issued from Belle Vue clinic said.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who was admitted to a private clinic here with complaints of breathing problem and palpitation, was resting and her condition was stable, doctors attending to her said today.

Parrying a question on his prime ministerial aspirations, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday said that he was not a apolitical person.

In an apparent bid to reach out to his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi on Tuesday targeted both the UPA at the Centre and the Left Front in the state.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today said the central government was engulfed by policy paralysis and it was on “borrowed time”.

Combative West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is going to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union finance minister P. Chidambaram to ask them why they were keeping Bengal deprived.

Following the death of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta, the Bengal government is contemplating the necessity of conducting students’ union elections at colleges and universities.

Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh on Sunday warned Trinamul Congress government that the Centre will not release grants for rural development if the panchayat polls were not held on t

Under pressure from Opposition after the death of an SFI leader, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today termed the episode as “unfortunate”, but evaded a question on whether a judicial probe would be ordered as demanded by the CPI(M).