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  Centre wants poor to go hungry: Mamata

  National | March 21, 2013 6:43 IST

  Jhilimili/Kolkata, March 21: Lashing out at the central government for stopping allocation of additional food grain in backward areas and some targeted groups at cheap rates in the coming fiscal, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata

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  Mamata promises to back UPA on Sri Lanka vote issue

  National | March 21, 2013 6:38 IST

  Kolkata, March 21: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, whose party quit the ruling UPA last year, Wednesday extended support to it on any decision it took on the Sri Lankan issue at the UNHRC in

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  Mamata warns GJM against reviving separatist movement

  National | March 13, 2013 9:42 IST

  Kolkata, March 13: Giving a stern message to the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha which has raised its old demand for a separate Gorkhaland state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday said any efforts at reviving

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  LS elections in 2-3 months, railway may return to TMC: Mamata

  National | March 11, 2013 9:52 IST

  Kolkata, March 11: Fuelling speculation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday claimed that the Lok Sabha elections will be held within the next 2-3 months and the railway portfolio may return to the Trinamool

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  Forward Bloc confronts Mamata on Netaji's monument

  National | January 24, 2013 8:27 IST

  Kolkata, Jan 24: The Forward Bloc, a party founded by Subhas Chandra Bose, Wednesday lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for shifting the venue of Netaji's 116th birth anniversary celebrations and her

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  May be one or two incidents of crime against women: Mamata

  National | January 19, 2013 10:28 IST

  Haringhata(WB), Jan 19: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said that there might have been "one or two incidents" of crime against women in the state and criticised political rivals and the media for

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  Mamata rubbishes reports of negligence towards minorities

  National | January 19, 2013 7:04 IST

  Amdanga (WB), Jan 19: Rubbishing allegations of negligence being meted out towards the minority community, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said the state government had already completed nearly 90 per cent of the

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  West Bengal now a graveyard: Buddhadeb

  National | January 14, 2013 8:47 IST

  Kolkata, Jan 14: Former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday accused the West Bengal government of squandering money on self promotion instead of creating jobs."The constant refrain is all work has been done. Sometimes it is

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  CPI(M) calls Bengal violence brutal gangrape of democracy

  National | January 11, 2013 12:45 IST

  New Delhi, Jan 11: Terming the attack against its leader Abdur Rezzak Mollah and party activists in Kolkata as ”a brutal gangrape of democracy”, CPI-M yesterday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of directing the state

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  Left Front to hold anti-Mamata rally in Kolkata on Nov 17

  National | November 14, 2012 10:38 IST

  Kolkata, Nov 14: West Bengal's opposition Left Front would hold a rally Nov 17 here in protest against the deteriorating law and order situation and increasing number of atrocities against women in the state, a

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  Crucial Trinamool parliamentary meet begins

  National | September 18, 2012 18:43 IST

  Kolkata, Sep 18 :  A crucial meeting of the Trinamool Congress's parliamentary party slated to take “hard decisions” in response to the UPA government's dual decisions of diesel price hike and FDI in retail began

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  Mamta can leave UPA, if she wants: Congress

  National | September 17, 2012 8:54 IST

  Kolkata, Sep 16: Stressing that Trinamool Congress can oppose and offer its own proposals even while staying in the union government, West Bengal state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharjee Sunday said there will be no problem

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  Not surprised by Mamata's decision not to support: Pranab

  National | July 14, 2012 21:15 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 14: Pranab Mukherjee, UPA's nominee for the Presidential poll, today said he was not surprised by the decision of ally Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee not to support his candidature, saying she

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  PM speaks to Mamata, CPI leader Bardhan

  National | July 12, 2012 7:37 IST

  Kolkata/New Delhi, Jul 12: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight stepped up efforts to drum up support for Hamid Ansari for a second tenure in the post of Vice President, elections to which are scheduled for

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  New Tatkal booking system from Tuesday

  India | July 09, 2012 20:52 IST

   New Delhi, Jul 9: Amidst rising complaints about misuse of the railway's Tatkal scheme of booking tickets, a revised scheme with additional measures to check the lacunae will come into effect from tomorrow under which

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  Mamata's tenure the golden phase of Railways says Mukul Roy

  National | June 30, 2012 20:30 IST

  Howrah, Jun 30:  Terming the tenure of Mamata Banerjee as the ‘golden phase' in the history of country's largest network, Railway Minister Mukul Roy today said all the projects being implemented now were planned by

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  AC, first class rail fares may rise from July

  India | June 26, 2012 22:50 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 26: Railway passenger fares in all AC classes and first class may rise by 3.6% from July 1 as there are little indications that finance ministry would extend service tax exemption to

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  After Mahi, youth dies in Howrah falling into well

  India | June 25, 2012 9:23 IST

  Howrah (WB), Jun 25: Rescuers today pulled out the body of the youth who fell into a well in West Bengal's Howrah district, more than 10 and half hours after he fell into the well.Rausan

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  Modi praises Mamata's 'guts' to oppose UPA wrong policies

  National | May 27, 2012 18:08 IST

  Kolkata, May 27 : In line with the BJP's recent appeal to Mamata Banerjee to join the NDA, a senior party leader Sushil Kumar Modi today said she was always welcome to join the combine

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  Mamata Banerjee slams Centre, says NCTC not acceptable

  National | May 05, 2012 17:05 IST

  New Delhi,May 5: Slamming the Centre for taking a unilateral decision on formation of NCTC, keyUPA ally and West Bengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee on Saturday said such institutions "upset" the federal structure of the country