States must have greater role in new Plan body: PM Narendra Modi

Last Updated: Sunday, December 7, 2014, 16:38

Seeking to strengthen cooperative federalism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that states must have a greater role in the new body which will replace the existing Planning Commission.

Modi, Mamata to address separate rallies in Tripura

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 16:00

BJP`s Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress` Mamata Banerjee would address separate public rallies here to start campaign for their respective parties in North-East for the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Manmohan Singh, Mamata Banerjee share dais in Kolkata for museum`s bicentenary

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 11:33

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shared stage in Kolkata on Sunday for the celebration of the Indian Museum`s bicentenary.

WB to withdraw cases against Singur, Nandigram activists

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 21:50

Mamata Banerjee government decided to withdraw cases filed by the previous Left Front regime against activists there, including a present minister in Singur and Nandigram agitations case.

Mamata should first fulfill her duties as CM: Congress

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 17:55

Mocking Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee`s `Delhi Chalo` call, Congress on Friday said she should first learn to fulfill her duties as Chief Minister and only then dream of becoming Prime Minister.

Congress ridicules Mamata`s call for a federal front

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 22:05

Ridiculing Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee`s call for a federal front in ensuing Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Thursday dismissed it as a `vague idea` with no political significance.

Mamata promises stern action against rapists

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 21:47

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said her government will take stern action against the rape accused and not tolerate atrocities against women.

Mamata against government of rioters, dynastic rule

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 18:56

Kickstarting her party`s Lok Sabha campaign, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said her party would go it alone in the 2014 polls and renewed her call for a federal front of non-Congress and non-BJP parties.

`Mamata only ideal candidate for PM`

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 15:27

Author Mahasweta Devi expressed support for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said here Thursday that she "is the only ideal candidate for prime minister".

Congress, CPI-M, BJP will be routed in 2014 polls: Mamata

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 15:18

The Trinamool Congress on Thursday sounded the poll bugle declaring that it will take on the Congress, BJP and CPI(M) in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

West Bengal hamstrung by shortage of civil servants: Mamata

Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 23:06

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that the state was hamstrung by serious shortage of IAS officers which was posing a big constraint in the functioning of the government.

Trinamool will play decisive role in new Lok Sabha: Mukul Roy

Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 20:20

Trinamool Congress on Saturday claimed that while CPI(M) will lose its relevance after the results of upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Mamata Banerjee-led party will play a decisive role at the national level.