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Mamata To Quit As Railway Minister On Thursday
India | May 18, 2011, 04:43 PM ISTNew Delhi, May 18: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee would resign as Railway Minister tomorrow, a day ahead of being sworn in as West Bengal Chief Minister. After her talks with UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi
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Mamata Will Be India's 14th Woman CM
India | May 17, 2011, 06:56 PM ISTKolkata, May 17: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will become the country's 14th woman chief minister and the first in West Bengal when she is sworn in on Friday. Veteran Gandhian Sucheta Kripalani was India's
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Mamata Ends 34-Year Left Rule, Jaya Trumps DMK In TN
India | May 13, 2011, 10:18 PM ISTKolkata/Chennai, May 13: Mamata Banerjee stormed the Red bastion terminating the Left Front's 34-year stranglehold on West Bengal, while Jayalalithaa wrested power with a landslide victory over DMK in the assembly elections whose results were
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Mamata Will Breathe Life Into Bengal Economy, Says Amit Mitra
India | May 13, 2011, 08:16 PM ISTNew Delhi, May 13: The poor state of economy in West Bengal will be one of the immediate challenges for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee who is set to become the next chief minister after
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Mamata Demolishes Red Bastion, Jaya ousts DMK; Cong Gets Assam, Kerala
India | May 13, 2011, 08:12 PM ISTNew Delhi, May 13: Breaking the Red citadel, Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress ended the 34-year hegemony of the Left Front in West Bengal, while Jayalalithaa's AIADMK scored a landslide victory to oust DMK from power
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Mamata To Sort Out Jangalmahal And Darjeeling Problems
India | May 13, 2011, 07:41 PM ISTKolkata, May 13: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today said she would try to sort out the Jangalmahal and Darjeeling Hills problems within three months."I will try my level best to sort out the problems
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Mamata Invites Congress, SUCI To Join Govt
India | May 13, 2011, 07:06 PM ISTKolkata, May 13: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, all set to take over the reins of power in West Bengal, today requested party allies Congress and Left opposition Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), to
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Poll Surveys Predict Landslide For Mamata
National | May 11, 2011, 05:17 PM ISTNew Delhi, May 11: Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance is set to sweep the assembly elections in West Bengal, according to post-poll projections on television channels, while it was a mixed verdict in other states.While CNN-IBN-CSDS survey
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Second Phase Of WB Polls Records 85.32% Votes
India | Apr 23, 2011, 10:18 PM ISTKolkata, Apr 23: An estimated 85.32 per cent of the electorate today exercised their franchise in the second phase of assembly poll in 50 constituencies in three districts of West Bengal which was entirely peaceful.Prominent
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BJP Lambasts Mamata, Mayawati For Athlete-Throwing Incident
India | Apr 14, 2011, 05:57 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 14: Expressing shock at volleyball player Arunima Sinha being thrown out of a train in Bareilly, BJP today held both Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati responsible for
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Brinda Karat Lashes Out At Mamata Over Bareilly Incident
National | Apr 14, 2011, 02:26 PM ISTDelhi, Apr 14; CPI-M leader Brinda Karat on Thursday condemned the Bareilly athleter-throwing incident and asked the government why thousands of vacancies in the railway police force were not being filled up to strengthen security
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CPI-M Plans Road Show After Successful Mamata Padayatras
National | Apr 05, 2011, 12:25 PM ISTKolkata, Apr 5 : With Mamata Banerjee's ‘padayatras' drawing thousands, the ruling CPI-M not to be outdone has also planned a similar roadshow on coming Saturday by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in his Jadavpur constituency
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No Constitutional Bar On Introducing Vidhan Parishad : Pranab
National | Apr 04, 2011, 08:33 AM ISTKolkata, Apr 4 : Union Finance Minister and senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee has said there was no constiutional bar on introducing Vidhan Parishad (Upper House) as suggested by Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee in
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Health, Industry, Education Are Priority: Mamata
National | Mar 28, 2011, 09:16 AM ISTKolkata, Mar 27: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said if voted to power, the party will give priority to industry, health, education and administrative reforms in the first 200 days of the government.“The health
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Defer Monthly Season Tickets To Girls : EC Tells Mamata
India | Mar 22, 2011, 09:28 PM ISTNew Delhi, Mar 22: The Election Commission has asked the Railway Ministry to put on hold implementation of the free monthly season tickets to girls upto college level in the five assembly poll-bound states including
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Congress Boycotts Mamata's Railway Function In Bengal
National | Dec 15, 2010, 03:38 PM ISTKolkata, Dec 15: Congress activists today blocked rail tracks near Sagardighi in Murshidabad district, where Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was scheduled to attend a function. Congress leaders boycotted the function. Congress workers set up banners
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We Will Be Happy If JPC Is Formed: Mamata
National | Dec 07, 2010, 09:33 PM ISTKolkata, Dec 7: Railway minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said her party would be "happy" if a JPC on 2G spectrum allocation was formed, but there was no threat to the ruling
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Mamata Detractors Included In Reconstituted WBPCC
National | Dec 04, 2010, 10:39 PM ISTNew Delhi, Dec 4: Some of the detractors of Mamata Banerjee as also those favouring a greater space for Congress during alliance with Trinamool Congress in poll-bound West Bengal have been accommodated in the reconstituted
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CPI-M Asks Mamata To Explain Why She Skipped PM's Dinner
National | Nov 09, 2010, 04:40 PM ISTNew Delhi, Nov 9 (PTI) As their prime opponent Mamata Banerjee threatened to "expose CPI(M)'s double standards" during US President Barack Obama's visit, the major Left party today said she herself had to do some
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Mamata Threatens Agitation, Demands Withdrawal Of Joint Forces
India | Oct 06, 2010, 09:12 PM ISTMidnapore (WB), Oct 6: Piling pressure on the Centre, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today threatened to take to the streets from tomorrow to press for immediate withdrawal of joint forces from Maoist-hit areas in