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  Mamata Ends 34-Year Left Rule, Jaya Trumps DMK In TN

  India | May 13, 2011 22:18 IST

  Kolkata/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 20:16 IST

  New 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 20:12 IST

  New 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 19:41 IST

  Kolkata, 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 19:06 IST

  Kolkata, 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

  Politics | May 11, 2011 17:17 IST

  New 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 | April 23, 2011 22:18 IST

  Kolkata, 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 | April 14, 2011 17:57 IST

  New 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

  Politics | April 14, 2011 14:26 IST

  Delhi, 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

  Politics | April 05, 2011 12:25 IST

  Kolkata, 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

  Politics | April 04, 2011 8:33 IST

  Kolkata, 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

  Politics | March 28, 2011 9:16 IST

  Kolkata, 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 | March 22, 2011 21:28 IST

  New 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

  Politics | December 15, 2010 15:38 IST

  Kolkata, 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

  Politics | December 07, 2010 21:33 IST

  Kolkata, 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

  Politics | December 04, 2010 22:39 IST

  New 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

  Politics | November 09, 2010 16:40 IST

  New 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 | October 06, 2010 21:12 IST

  Midnapore (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

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  Mamata Announces Rs 10 Lakh Award For Sushil Kumar

  India | September 13, 2010 21:01 IST

  New Delhi: Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday  announced an award of Rs 10 lakh to Sushil Kumar, Assistant Commercial Manager with the Northern Railway, for winning Gold Medal in World Wrestling Championship in Moscow.

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  Maoist Leader Kishenji Defends Mamata

  India | August 11, 2010 15:28 IST

  Kolkata: Top Maoist leader Kishenji on Wednesday defended Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for stating that the killing of the outfit's spokesman Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was wrong and said talks could only be held