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  Opposition moves against BJP: Telangana CM KCR to meet Uddhav, Mamata

  Elections | February 13, 2022 23:09 IST

  Charging that the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government should be dumped for its alleged anti-people policies, K Chandrashekhar Rao said he would play a major role in uniting anti-BJP political parties. 

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  Mamata Banerjee likely to sever ties with Prashant Kishore's I-PAC

  India | February 08, 2022 16:30 IST

  The differences between the TMC party high command and I-PAC reached a flashpoint when a list of candidates for the 108 Municipalities was uploaded on the party website without the approval of the Chief Minister. 

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  Mamata Banerjee to campaign for Samajwadi Party in UP polls: SP VP

  Elections | January 18, 2022 22:44 IST

  Nanda, who returned from poll bound Uttar Pradesh on Monday, held an hour-long meeting with Banerjee at her residence on the issue. One of the longest-serving fisheries ministers of West Bengal during the erstwhile Left Front regime, Nanda had merged his party, the West Bengal Socialist Party with Samajwadi Party in 2010.

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  West Bengal to use Netaji tableau in state Republic Day parade

  India | January 20, 2022 10:57 IST

  The state's programme will be a curtailed one of 30 minutes duration because of the Covid-19 pandemic situation. According to senior officials of the state home department, Netaji is going to be the central theme in the state's Republic Day function. Tableaux of Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Airforce and Kolkata Police will also be showcased at the Red Road function, which will be graced by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

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  Bengal minister invites Elon Musk to set up biz in state, BJP mocks proposal

  India | January 16, 2022 19:40 IST

  The US-based company, which is looking to launch its products in India, had last year sought a reduction in import duties so that his company's high-performance electric cars can begin to sell in India. The heavy industries ministry had asked the electric car major to first start manufacturing its iconic vehicles in India before any tax concessions are considered.

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  FIR registered against Mamata Banerjee for instigating Sitalkuchi violence

  Elections | April 17, 2021 8:23 IST

  The complainant attached a statement made by the Chief Minister where she said: "The people and women of the area, be ready to pounce upon the paramilitary forces will your brooms, ladles, sticks and spuds. One team should surround the forces, another team should vote."

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  CBI team reaches Abhishek Banerjee's house

  News | February 21, 2021 15:08 IST

  A three-member CBI team on Sunday reached Trinamool leader Abhishek Banerjee's house in Kolkata in connection with an ongoing investigation into an alleged coal smuggling case.

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  TMC MLA Jitendra Tiwari resigns

  News | December 17, 2020 18:52 IST

  TMC MLA Jitendra Tiwari, who is among several party leaders to turn rebel recently, has resigned from the post of chairman of the administrative board of the Asansol Municipal Corporation.

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  Fresh acrimony between TMC and Governor over video of decomposed bodies

  India | June 14, 2020 7:55 IST

  The TMC accused Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar of peddling "fake news", drawing sharp retort. Dhankhar charged that the party was "deflecting from the main issue".

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  RBI jobs: Employee body meets Mamata over 'discriminatory recruitment sanction' against Bengal

  February 04, 2020 16:17 IST

  RBI jobs: A two-member delegation of the Reserve Bank Employees' Association on Tuesday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the "discriminatory" recruitment sanction for the state.

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  'Mamata angry as she is afraid of losing minority vote bank': AIMIM Bengal president

  India | November 20, 2019 13:43 IST

  "Now she is having problem with Asaduddin Owaisi and the AIMIM. During the Nandigram movement in 2007, she herself had called him to Bengal and had sought his support. "But now as it is due to her policies that the BJP is gaining ground in Bengal, she is having problem with the AIMIM. This is nothing but political hypocrisy," Hasan said.

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  Abhishek Banerjee sets target of over 250 seats for TMC in 2021 poll

  India | August 28, 2019 19:18 IST

  Abhishek, who heads the youth wing of the TMC and is nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said the BJP's thinking of winning Bengal has no basis. "In the next assembly poll in 2021, we should fight to win 250 plus seats in the state. The BJP thinks it can win Bengal. But they are wrong.

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  Human rights have been totally violated in Kashmir: Mamata

  India | August 19, 2019 11:23 IST

  "Human rights is a subject very close to my heart. In 1995, I was on the road for 21 days to protect human rights violations against deaths in lock-ups," the CM tweeted.

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  Nusrat Jahan has something special to say about her marriage with Nikhil Jain

  Celebrities | July 05, 2019 15:57 IST

  The actress-turned-MP Nusrat Jahan looked beautiful in a wine-colored velvet lehenga she wore at her wedding reception. Her husband Nikhil Jain opted for a velvet bandhgala of a dark shade.

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  Home ministry rejects Mamata's demand to rename West Bengal to Bangla

  India | July 03, 2019 13:51 IST

  Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Sukhendu Sekhar Roy demanded in the House that West Bengal be renamed Bangla in three languages — Bengali, English, and Hindi — in deference to Bengali identity.

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  Mamata's order on cut money may sow confusion in TMC

  India | June 21, 2019 8:22 IST

  Addressing party workers earlier this week, Trinamool supremo Banerjee lashed out at those leaders taking cut money or commission from beneficiaries of government schemes, and ordered them to return the ill-gotten amount to the public from whom they had taken it in the first place.

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  Prominent Kolkata Muslims urge Mamata to punish assailants

  India | June 20, 2019 13:00 IST

  In an open letter, many prominent members of the community said they were living in Kolkata for decades and deeply grieved with these recent incidents where the accused were Muslims.

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  Won't allow thieves to stay in party, says Mamata amid defections

  India | June 18, 2019 23:27 IST

  Accusing some municipal bodies of misusing the government property and extorting from people, she said none of those leaders will be able to escape the legal action by switching parties.  

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  Mamata Banerjee agrees to live coverage of meeting with protesting doctors

  India | June 17, 2019 15:35 IST

  The state government had earlier turned down the striking doctors' demand for the live telecast of the meeting, scheduled to be held later in the day.

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  BJP pre-programmed EVMs during Lok Sabha polls: Mamata

  India | June 13, 2019 23:44 IST

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that majority of EVMs were pre-programmed by the BJP during the recent Lok Sabha polls.