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.

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

Two days after arch rival Mamata Banerjee stormed the area, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday campaigned in this rural belt and charged the Trinamool Congress with blocking industrialisation by misleading the people.

Rubbishing allegations that the Congress "sold" the state unit to the Trinamool Congress, a party leader said that forging an alliance in West Bengal was necessary to do away with the impression that the Congress was shy of ousting the Left Front.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday had a word of praise for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee even as she questioned the use of central funds by the state's Left Front government.

She waves at the crowds, shakes hands with the people and greets them either with a namaskar or an adab — depending on whether she is traversing a Hindu or a Muslim majority area.

Senior Congress leader and Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said that the Congress is yet to decide whether to join the government if the Congress-Trinamul Congress alliance gets majo

A Trinamool Congress MP was stopped at the Indira Gandhi International airport here after he was found carrying Rs 57 lakh but was later allowed to go after he informed authorities that the money belo

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee, PCC chief Manas Bhuniya and CLP leader Abu Hena figure in the Congress’ list of 65 candidates for West Bengal Assembly elections announced on Friday.