Dankuni (West Bengal), Dec 26 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee will flag off a bouquet of express trains from major Kolkata stations to Amritsar, Bangalore, Bikaner and Delhi Dec 30, an official said.
The new trains are the Howrah-Delhi Yuva express, the Howrah-Bangalore Duranto Express, the Sealdah-Amritsar Express and the Howrah-Bikaner express.
Sixty percent of the Yuva [...]
Dankuni (West Bengal), Dec 26 (IANS) The railways have taken up a project to distribute eco-friendly compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) to its 650,000 employees to bring down carbon emissions, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Saturday.
‘The railways have taken up the an eco-friendly initiative by providing CFL lamps to 6.5 lakh employees that will help [...]
Kolkata, Dec 26 (IANS) The West Bengal government is in talks with Tata Motors for getting back the land leased to the automobile major for its Nano small car project in Hooghly district’s Singur, officials said Saturday.
‘They have taken the land on lease from us for a specific project, but as it will not come [...]
Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) Unable to get out of a debt trap, three members of a family committed suicide in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, police said Sunday.
The bodies of Samir Nandi, 70, his wife Sangita Nandi, 65, and son Ujjal Nandi, 32, were found hanging from the ceiling fan hooks in their Chandannagar house by [...]
Kolkata, Dec 8 (IANS) West Bengal’s Left Front government Tuesday sent a letter to the railway ministry asking it to set up an industry on the plot of land abandoned by Tata Motors in Singur, and promised to cooperate with the project.
‘We’ve sent our proposal to the railways and we’ve said if they want to [...]
Kolkata, Dec 8 (IANS) West Bengal’s Left Front government Tuesday sent a letter to the railway ministry asking it to set up industries on the plot of land abandoned by Tata Motors in Singur.
‘We’ve sent our proposal to the railways and we’ve said that if they want to set up industries in Singur, they are [...]
Singur (West Bengal), Nov 29 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday laid the foundation stone for the railway’s first perishable cargo centre to benefit farmers in this West Bengal’s Hooghly district belt, where she had led a successful peasant agitation against the Tatas’ small car project.
The centre is part of Banerjee’s ‘Kisan Vision’ project that [...]
Kolkata, Nov 27 (IANS) A Trinamool Congress team visited West Bengal’s Hooghly district Friday, a day after one person was killed and six injured in clashes between activists of the opposition party and the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).
The team, led by union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy, spoke to Trinamool Congress [...]
Kolkata, Nov 26 (IANS) One man was killed and six others, including two policemen, were injured as activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Trinamool Congress clashed in several villages in West Bengal’s Hooghly district Thursday, police said.
‘One person was killed and at least six people including two police personnel were injured [...]
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury Thursday said the Trinamool Congress was in cahoots with the Maoists to create anarchy in West Bengal.
‘They (Trinamool) are protecting and patronising the Maoists, who unleash violence in the state,’ Yechury told reporters in parliament.
He said the Trinamool wanted to create [...]
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Lok Sabha was adjourned Thursday following an uproar in the house by Trinamool Congress and Left parties over violent clashes in West Bengal’s Hooghly district that left one man dead and five injured.
When Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay tried to raise the matter in the house during zero hour, [...]
Kolkata, Nov 26 (IANS) One man was killed and five others, including a police officer, suffered bullet injuries as activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Trinamool Congress clashed in several villages in West Bengal’s Hooghly district Thursday, police said.
The clashes broke out in Majhpur, Bardighrui and Chandrabhan villages, said an official [...]
Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) The French government is looking into various areas to develop the tourism potential and revive the rich heritage of its former colony Chandannagar in West Bengal’s Hooghly district.
‘West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi requested us to visit Chandannagar almost two years ago. We visited the place in April this year and identified [...]
Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) Normal life remained virtually unaffected in West Bengal Tuesday despite a dawn-to-dusk shutdown called by the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), an ally of opposition Congress-Trinamool Congress combine in the state. It is protesting on various issues including rises in the prices of essential commodities.
Police said the 12-hour shutdown from [...]
Kolkata, Nov 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday reiterated his stand that the Trinamool Congress was working hand in hand with the Maoists in the state.
‘I’ve specific information about those Trinamool workers who are working with the Maoists. I know many Trinamool Congress activists who are helping the Maoists in Bankura, Purulia [...]
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday asked the Left Front government in West Bengal to maintain law and order ‘whatever be the provocation’, following clashes during the campaign for bye-elections in the state.
‘I had spoken to the chief minister. I impressed upon him that whatever be the cause of inter-party clashes, [...]
Kolkata, Oct 17 (IANS) A suspected Maoist, Shibu Murmu, has been arrested from Arambagh area of West Bengal’s Hooghly district, police said Saturday.
Murmu, a leader of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), was nabbed for his alleged links with the Leftist radical organisation.
Murmu was produced before the Khatra sub-division court Saturday and remanded in [...]
Kolkata, Oct 16 (IANS) A group of Trinamool Congress leaders Friday staged a demonstration in front of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s office here demanding his arrest for allegedly masterminding political violence across the state.
The sit-in in front of the state secretariat Writers’ Buildings was led by leader of the opposition in the state assembly Partha [...]
Kolkata, Oct 16 (IANS) Four Trinamool Congress legislators, including Leader of Opposition in West Bengal assembly Partha Chattopadhyay, were arrested for staging a sit-in in front of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s office here Friday.
Amidst high drama, the slogan-shouting legislators arrived at the state secretariat Writers’ Buildings minutes after Bhattacharjee left for home for lunch, [...]
Kolkata, Oct 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader and Union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy Monday toured the violence-hit Arambag-Khanakul area in West Bengal’s Hooghly district and asked the people to unitedly protest the ‘atrocities’ of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres.
‘I urge the people to be united and protest against the [...]
Kolkata, Oct 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader and Union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy Monday toured the violence-hit Arambag-Khanakul area in West Bengal’s Hooghly district and called for protest against the ‘atrocities’ of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres.
‘I urge the people to be united and protest against the CPI-M-sponsored atrocities [...]
Kolkata, Oct 3 (IANS) A West Bengal court Saturday handed over arrested Maoist commander Chandra Bhushan Yadav to the Jharkhand Police on a four-day transit remand, police said
Yadav was arrested by a West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) team Friday evening from Hooghly district’s Chinsura area.
‘Chandra Bhushan Yadav is a hardcore Maoist and he used [...]
