Old policies, new costs

Last May, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had met chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the city when the Trinamool Congress was celebrating a year in power. This time, US Ambassador to India Nancy Powell did a Hillary on Monday and congratulated the ...

West Bengal's Left Front Tuesday charged the Trinamool Congress government with destroying the process of development and participatory democracy in the state over the past two years it has been in power."Before the 2011 assembly polls, the Trinamool Congress ...

Poll season triggers court battle as Trinamool faces ma... Akali Dal manifesto comes in handy for Congress (Punjab... Ranchi , May 20 (IANS) Cricket polls in Jharkand, home to India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, has got hotter and will see an ...

Bringing out an assessment report of West Bengal's Trinamool Congress government, two days before it completes two years in office, the Congress Saturday alleged that the regime was moving in a negative direction and was clueless about the course it wanted ...

With the Trinamool Congress government stepping into the third year of its rule, it is facing its biggest challenge in the multi-crore chit fund scam which has hit lakhs of people across the state. The bubble burst of the Saradha Group and many other small chit funds has left a trail of suicides by investors and agents and the killing of a director of one such firm with the number of deaths reaching 14 so far. Opposition parties have been chorusing that pro-Trinamool Congress media houses were ...

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee assumed the office of the West Bengal chief minister on May 20, 2011. Banerjee and her council of ministers walked to Writers? Building with a delirious, cheering crowd expecting a real ...

On the eve of the second anniversary of Trinamool Congress rule in the state, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday posted on Facebook that two years was not a big time to evaluate a new government. But she insisted that the state has outperformed national ...

The Trinamool Congress Saturday said Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar, who from the union cabinet resigned a day earlier, have "mud on their faces".Trinamool MP and former union minister Sougata Ray said the duo's resignation has come "a little ...

The recent suggestion from a panel headed by Mr. Kalyan Banerjee, a Lok Sabha Member from Trinamool Congress that in coal and lignite mining, the compensation for displaced people must be linked with the royalty paid by miners during the fiscal year ...