Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will undertake a protest march against the steep petrol price hike of more than Rs 7.50 per litre. Mamata will lead a rally from Hazra to Jadhavpur in south Kolkata on Saturday evening protesting against the hike. Mamata's party had skipped the Union Cabinet meeting at Prime Minister Manmohan SIngh's residence on Thursday. She claimed on Wednesday evening after...
04:50 PM, May 25, 2012
Kolkata: The rift between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and one of her most prominent supporters is final. Months after Mahasweta Devi called Mamata's government fascist, she quit as president of Bengal Academy on Thursday after her nominee was rejected for an award. Devi said, "I feel humiliated and hurt. I didn't expect this. This is the biggest humiliation of my literary career." Increasingly award ceremonies are being seen...
08:53 AM, May 25, 2012
Coimbatore: CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat on Thursday came down heavily on Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and some other UPA allies terming them as 'hyprocrites' on various issues, including the petrol price hike. If Mamata was really concerned about the well-being of the people, why was she not withdrawing support to the Centre, Karat asked on the sidelines of a demonstration organised by CPI-M's...
12:20 AM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the steepest ever hike in petrol prices on Wednesday, key UPA allies " Trinamool Congress (TMC), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and DMK " on Thursday skipped an important Cabinet meet held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence. The government has been slammed for the hike in petrol prices by opposition parties as well as its allies since the announcement. Even the Congress on Thursday distanced...
07:19 PM, May 24, 2012
Kolkata: One of West Bengal's biggest intellectuals Mahasweta Devi has quit as the Chairperson of the Bangla Academy, a post that was given to her by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The author and Magsaysay Award winner Mahasweta Devi decided to quit after her proposal to give the prestigious Vidyasagar Award to a young author was allegedly turned down by the state government. "I selected two writers and they have been...
08:34 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Just a day after the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government completed three years in office, it dealt a major blow to the common man by the sharpest ever increase in petrol price. The state-owned oil companies decided to raise petrol price by Rs 6.28 per litre excluding local sales tax or VAT. After the addition of taxes the hike translates into Rs 7.50 per litre in Delhi. With...
11:47 PM, May 23, 2012
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11:25 PM, May 23, 2012
In the steepest ever increase, petrol rates were on Wednesday raised by a massive Rs 7.50 per litre, the first hike in rates in six months. ...
10:47 PM, May 23, 2012
Kolkata: In line with Trinamool Congress' opposition to SEZ, the West Bengal government on Wednesday scrapped the state Special Economic Zone Act, 2003. The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet committee on industry presided over by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee told reporters here. The act stipulated the waiver of electricity tariff in full without any restriction of period, stamp duty, registration fees, import...
09:54 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Government was on Wednesday slammed by its allies and the Opposition alike over the sharp increase in petrol price, with key UPA constituents Trinamool Congress and DMK terming it as "unjust" and demanding an immediate rollback. TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the decision was taken without consulting her. "We cannot accept the petrol price hike. It is unjust and unilateral. It...
09:06 PM, May 23, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and UPA ally Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the government over the sharpest ever petrol price hike of Rs 7.50 per litre, calling it a burden on the common man. "I have come to know about the hike, it is unfortunatewe got to know from the press, I don't think such hike is good, it is painful for people," said the Trinamool Congress...
07:16 PM, May 23, 2012
Washington: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that Marxists and Maoists are plotting to kill her in league with the Pakistani intelligence, North Korea, Venezuela and Hungary. Banerjee made the sensational charge in an interview to the Washington Post. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) rubbished the allegation. Banerjee told the Post how her "Marxist political opponents were plotting with Maoist rebels to discredit and kill her". They were...
06:44 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: As the rupee continues its free fall, a hike in petrol, diesel and LPG prices is likely this week. The rupee fell to a record life low of 56 per dollar on Wednesday. The rupee on Wednesday ended at a record closing of 56 per dollar versus 55.39 per dollar on Tuesday. The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) is likely to meet on a decision on fuel prices...
12:13 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has struck a deal with the Congress and agreed to back UPA-II's Presidential candidate, sources say. Even though the bonhomie between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party is growing there is no talk of the latter joining the government, at least till the Presidential polls are over, sources add. With the Samajwadi Party's support in the Presidential polls, the UPA's strength will...
11:09 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was the star of UPA-II's third anniversary dinner on Tuesday. While the key ally Trinamool Congress seems to be drifting away from the UPA, Mulayam was seen sharing the stage and then the high table with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at the dinner, an honour reserved only for close allies. The big question that arises now is...
09:06 AM, May 23, 2012
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