Chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced that 400 acres from Tata Motors’ abandoned Nano project at Singur would be returned to the unwilling farmers. Chairing the first Cabinet meeting of the new government just five hours after being sworn in, Ms Banerjee also took some other stupendous decisions like invitation to Justice

West Bengal's new Trinamool Congress government will give due respect to the Opposition and welcome constructive suggestions, industry and commerce minister Partha Chatterjee said here on Saturday.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday donated1crore from her earning from auction of her paintings to various relief funds run by the state government.

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee made history on Friday afternoon, taking the oath of office as the first woman chief minister of West Bengal. It was exactly a week after she had dethroned the CPI(M)-led Left Front, which ruled the state for the past 34 years. Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who succeeded the iconic Jyoti Basu as

Ms Mamata Banerjee and Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee seldom came face to face in the last 11 years when the latter was at the helm, except on one occasion when the then governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi brought them together at Raj Bhavan to resolve the Singur issue.

Chief minister designate Mamata Banerjee sent her deputy Partha Chatterjee to personally invite former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to her swearing-in at the Raj Bhavan premises on Friday. By inviting her bête noire to her swearing-in, Ms Banerjee has tried to establish an image as a courteous and gracious leader trying to let go of past animosities. She already met former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to invite him to the ceremony.

Maya Ray, the widow of last Congress chief minister of the state Siddhartha Shankar Ray, regretted that he was not present to see the Left Front’s exit from power and Mamata Banerjee take over as the new chief minister of Bengal. “How I wish my husband had lived for six more months, then he would have witnessed this great achievement of Mamata Banerjee whom he was extremely fond of,” she added.

Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee will be sworn-in as West Bengal Chief Minister today.

Governor M.K. Narayanan will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Banerjee and new Council

It was the single minded pursuit for power that saw Mamata Banerjee battle the odds to take over as West Bengal's first woman chief minister after 34 years of the Left Front rule. A timeline of import

Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee and her new Council of Ministers were sworn-in today at Raj Bhavan at 1:01 p.m. Governor M.K. Narayanan administered the oath of office and secrecy.

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