When Elizabeth II was being crowned in London in 1953, the celebrations received an extra boost with the news arriving in London that Mt Everest had fallen with Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherp

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.

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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The swearing-in ceremony of the Trinamool Congress-Congress ministry in politically polarised West Bengal here on Friday presented a rare sight - new Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sharing the same pu

Mamata Banerjee, who ended the uninterrupted 34-year reign of the Left in West Bengal, on Friday made history when she was sworn in as the first woman chief minister of the state at the head of a 38-member Trinamool Congress-Congress coalition government.

In her first major policy decision, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that her government would return 400 acres from the abandoned Tata Motors plant at Singur to farmers who

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee would resign as railway minister on Thursday, a day ahead of being sworn in as West Bengal chief minister.

Mamata Banerjee, set to become West Bengal chief minister, today invited ally Congress to be part of her government as she met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here.