Mamata Banarjee
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Day-Night Test: BCCI felicitates Bangladesh PM, West Bengal CM
Cricket | Nov 22, 2019, 09:58 PM ISTBCCI president Sourav Ganguly handed over mementoes to Hasina and Banerjee in the presence of sporting greats like Sachin Tendulkar, Sania Mirza and Mary Kom among others.
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Those coming from Hyderabad with money bags are biggest allies of BJP: Mamata
National | Nov 20, 2019, 03:36 PM ISTBanerjee urged the Muslim community not to trust leaders visiting from outside and only repose faith on leaders from the state as they can only fight for the cause of the people of West Bengal
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Bengal to construct building to mark Guru Nanak's 550th birth anniversary
India | Nov 11, 2019, 07:59 PM ISTSpeaking before a congregation of Sikhs on the eve of Guru Nanak's birthday, Banerjee said she had told city mayor Firhad Hakim to identify land for the building in the south-eastern fringes of the city
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Bengal to construct building to mark Guru Nanak's 550th birth anniversary
India | Nov 11, 2019, 07:59 PM ISTSpeaking before a congregation of Sikhs on the eve of Guru Nanak's birthday, Banerjee said she had told city mayor Firhad Hakim to identify land for the building in the south-eastern fringes of the city
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Will focus on issues related to West Bengal during meeting with the PM
India | Sep 17, 2019, 04:11 PM ISTTalking to reporters at city airport before leaving for the national capital, Banerjee said she would also raise issues like name change of the state as well matters like merger of public sector banks during the meeting.
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TMC will not allow implementation of NRC in West Bengal : Mamata Banerjee
India | Sep 06, 2019, 06:34 PM ISTThe implementation of the NRC as nothing but a political vendetta of the BJP-led central government. she told the Assembly.
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Centre should have shown Chidamabaram some respect : Mamata Banerjee
India | Sep 06, 2019, 05:03 PM ISTThe central government should have shown him "minimum respect", she told the state assembly here.
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Bengal rolls out free crop insurance scheme for farmers
India | Jun 28, 2019, 06:25 PM ISTThe crop insurance scheme would be "free of cost for the farmers" as the government would pay the entire premium and the insurable crops are Aman and Aus paddy, jute and maize.
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Row rages in Bengal over Mamata's directive to build dining halls in schools with over 70% minority students
India | Jun 28, 2019, 06:50 PM ISTHowever, senior TMC leader and Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Giasuddin Mollah dismissed the allegations as baseless and defended the decision by saying the ongoing project will benefit all students.
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Impasse to end as Mamata, doctors term meeting 'positive'
India | Jun 17, 2019, 08:25 PM ISTWhile Banerjee termed the over one-and-a-half-hour long meeting as "positive and productive" and urged the doctors' to immediately end the strike for the sake of the ailing patients, the young doctors said they were eager to get back to work, calling the deliberations a "move towards the positive direction".
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Mamata Banerjee, KCR and Amarinder Singh skip Niti Aayog meet
India | Jun 15, 2019, 05:30 PM ISTThree chief ministers, including Mamata Banerjee and K Chandrashekhar Rao, gave it a miss to the fifth meeting of the Governing Council of Niti Aayog chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday.
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Mamata Banerjee blinks, invites agitating doctors again to meet her today
India | Jun 15, 2019, 06:45 AM ISTThe doctors, who struck work for the fourth day Friday, refused to meet the chief minister, demanding an unconditional apology from her.
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Won't let West Bengal become Gujarat: Mamata Banerjee on Bengal doctors’ protests row
India | Jun 14, 2019, 04:54 PM ISTHours after over 100 doctors in West Bengal resigned on June 14, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she 'won't let West Bengal become Gujarat’.
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Amid saffron surge, Mamata's residence, TMC headquarters wear deserted look
India | May 23, 2019, 06:35 PM ISTAs trends showed a saffron surge in Bengal, the residence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in South Kolkata's Kalighat wore a deserted look on Thursday with just a handful of Trinamool Congress supporters gathered outside.
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TMC busy with post-poll calculations after exit polls
India | May 20, 2019, 01:37 PM ISTA senior party leader said, "We do not have to worry about these exit poll reports, which in most cases do not match."
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Bengal LS polls: Tribal belt, Midnapore ready for phase 6
May 11, 2019, 05:03 PM ISTA gritty fight between state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and Manas Bhunia, a seasoned politician who jumped ship form the Congress to the Trinamool Congress in 2016, and a father-son duo contesting from two neighbouring seats laden with the memories of 'Quit India' movement also headline the polling scene on the morrow.
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Fully within rights to transfer officials during polls: EC tells Mamata
Apr 07, 2019, 03:24 PM ISTResponding to Banerjee's letter, the poll panel said Saturday that "It is the ECI and the governments of states/UTs who are jointly responsible to electors of the largest democracy and are bound to act strictly in the letter and spirit of the respective roles set forth by the founding fathers of the Constitution."
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Mamata Banerjee dares PM to prove she took money for paintings
India | Jan 30, 2019, 03:56 PM ISTThe TMC chief's strong reaction comes after BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged Banerjee's paintings were bought by chit fund owners for crores of rupees.
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Amit Shah's huge rally has worried Mamata, says BJP after vehicles carrying party workers attacked in Bengal
Jan 29, 2019, 11:49 PM ISTBJP spokesperson Sambit Patra claimed the state's ruling Trinamool Congress had targeted vehicles carrying BJP workers after Shah's rally.
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Bengal govt to pay Rs 2 lakh in case of farmer's death: Mamata Banerjee
India | Dec 31, 2018, 09:05 PM ISTThe money will be paid to the family in death case of any peasants aged between 18-60 years under 'Krishi Krishak Bandhu' scheme, which will come into effect on January 1.