Development in West Bengal is only possible when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leaves and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ‘kamal’ (lotus) blooms, said BJP national President JP Nadda on Wednesday. “(Prime Minister) Modiji has tried everything possible to bring development in Bengal while Mamata has exploited the public through appeasement and dictatorship, and damaged Bengal’s culture. Development in West Bengal […]
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Mamata Didi has done injustice to farmers in West Bengal: JP Nadda
Slamming the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over not implementing Prime Minister’s Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana in the state, Bharatiya Janata Party President JP Nadda on Saturday said, “Didi has done injustice to the farmers in the state”. “Mamata Didi has done injustice to the farmers here. She in her stubbornness, ego, […]
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‘Testing times’: PM Modi announces Rs 1,000 cr after meeting Mamata Banerjee
The central government stands with West Bengal in these testing times and will provide immediate advance assurance of Rs 1,000 crore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday as he wrapped up a visit to the state that had been battered by cyclone Amphan this week. This is PM Modi’s […]
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Cyclone Amphan to hit Bengal at 4 pm, CM Mamata to monitor from secretariat
Cyclone ‘Amphan’, one of the worst cyclones over the Bay of Bengal, lay centred about 170 km south of West Bengal’s Digha on Wednesday. About 4.5 lakh people have been evacuated from vulnerable areas in West Bengal and Odisha ahead of the its landfall. ‘Amphan’, termed as an extremely severe cyclonic […]
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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calms down protesting students in central Kolkata
There was tension in Central Kolkata’s Dharamtala area on Saturday as a large group of students protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit broke police barricades and came close to the sit-in venue of the Trinamool Chattra Parishad (TMCP) on Rani Rashmoni Avenue giving slogans against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, […]
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Mamata Banerjee to meet PM Modi in Kolkata but won’t receive him at airport
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may have a private meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, when he arrives in Kolkata for a two-day visit, but will not go to the airport to receive him, senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders close to the party chief said on Friday. Banerjee […]
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PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee likely to share stage in Kolkata amid CAA fight
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee are likely to share the stage during a programme of the Kolkata Port Trust on Sunday in Kolkata in the first such meeting between the leaders since the Lok Sabha polls in May 2019, said PTI sources. All eyes will […]
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Note ban was futile exercise, knew it would ruin lives: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the Centre’s move to demonetise high- value currency notes on this day in 2016 was a futile exercise which had a negative impact on the country’s economy. Banerjee, on the third anniversary of note ban, asserted that she knew from the […]
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Mamata Banerjee announces pay hike for college, university teachers
Teachers in state-aided colleges and universities in West Bengal stand to get a better pay packet from the New Year with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announcing on Tuesday that her government would implement the revised UGC pay scale from January 1 next year. However, a teachers’ body expressed unhappiness over […]
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‘Would be delighted to call on Mamata Banerjee on Bhai Dooj’: Bengal guv Dhankhar
After weeks of face-offs between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government and Governor Jadgeep Dhankhar, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has invited him to the Kali Puja at her residence and also on Bhai Dooj, known as Bhai Phonta in Bengali. While no Trinamool Congress leader spoke on record and the governor’s […]