On March 26, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told reporters at Kolkata airport that her visit to New Delhi was 'routine'."The Central Hall is a famous hall, where I will meet the leaders of my party and if the leaders of other parties want to meet me, I welcome them. We are all friends," she had said.Banerjee has kept her word and more. Over the last two days she has has met several leaders in an attempt to cobble together like-minded parties to form an anti-BJP federal front.She met ...

Dubbing the upcoming 2019 General Elections as one that is going to be "interesting", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met leaders from Opposition parties, as well as government ally Shiv Sena to discuss the political situation.Banerjee, ...

Union Minister Babul Supriyo on Tuesday accused West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government of destroying communal harmony by practising "appeasement politics" and called on Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi to apprise him of the situation in Raniganj, where a ...

Trouble over Ram Navami processions continued in West Bengal for the second day on Monday as members of saffron outfits clashed with the police in Murshidabad and Bardhaman West districts, resulting in a senior police officer losing his hand when a bomb was ...

The West Bengal government has rolled out Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's dream project 'Rupashree' which provides one time financial support to the marriages of poor women.'Rupashree' scheme follows the chief minister's ambitious 'Kanyashree' project which ...

Bharatiya Janata Party MP Babul Supriyo on Saturday blamed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the recent communal tension in the Asansol, saying that it was an outcome of her "appeasement politics"."Processions are taken out in West Bengal for a long time. There was a feeling of competition between communities. This is the outcome of Mamata Banerjee's appeasement politics," the Asansol MP said while talking to media here.Further attacking Banerjee for her governance, Supriyo said ...

State sheds laggard tag, emerges as leader among peers. IMAGE: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The third edition of the government's annual Ease of Doing Business ranking for states, modeled on the international one conducted by the World Bank, may see West Bengal jumping 15 places to top the list along with Chhatisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.  Data collected till Wednesday on an online dashboard maintained by the department of industrial policy and promotion, which conducts the ...

Farmers' incomes in West Bengal have more than doubled in the last eight years, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stressing that her government has already surpassed the Centre's goal of ensuring a twofold increase in ...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is in New Delhi from today for the next four days where she will be meeting leaders of 18 political parties.NCP chief Sharad Pawar, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, JD-S chief HD Deve Gowda, apart from leaders from the RJD, TDP and TRS.Conspicuous by its absence is the Congress party. Mamata Banerjee has apparently refused to meet Rahul Gandhi during this visit, as she claims that the Congress president is Left-leaning and is therefore more in line with CPI-M chief ...