Mamata Banerjee suspends 12 doctors at Midnapore hospital over woman's death due to 'expired' saline
Jan 17, 2025, at 12:20 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday suspended 12 doctors at the Midnapore Government Hospital over the death of a woman allegedly due to the administration of expired saline.
Jan 16, 2025, at 09:33 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday slammed Mohan Bhagwat over his remark that India's true independence came after the Ram Temple consecration in Uttar Pradesh and called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief an "anti-national" while accusing him of "distorting history".
Thank You Didi, writes Arvind Kejriwal on X after TMC backs AAP for Delhi Assembly polls
Jan 08, 2025, at 06:33 pm
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has announced support for his political outfit for the upcoming Assembly polls in Delhi.
Mamata accuses BSF of enabling infiltration; BJP calls Bengal a 'nursery for Bangladeshi influx'
Jan 02, 2025, at 05:29 pm
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused central forces of enabling infiltration from Bangladesh, alleging it was part of the Centre's "nefarious blueprint" to destabilise the state, media reports said.
Dec 31, 2024, at 11:44 pm
Sandeshkhali/IBNS: A day after Mamata Banerjee visited Sandeshkhali, West Bengal's Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was in the obscure riverine island on Tuesday, where he warned the Chief Minister of imprisonment over false cases if the Bharatiya Janata Party forms government in the state..
Dec 31, 2024, at 11:38 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asserted a lot of money was in the play to level the allegations of gangrape in Sandeshkhali, where massive protests broke out against erstwhile Trinamool Congress local strongman Sheikh Shahjahan months ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
People who raise questions on EVMs should show how they can be hacked: TMC trashes Congress claims
Dec 16, 2024, at 09:29 pm
Kolkata/New Delhi/IBNS: After National Conference leader Omar Abdullah refuted the Congress-led charge against Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), another key Opposition party, the Trinamool Congress, has now dismissed the questions over the same.
'By Allah's grace, we will be in majority one day': Bengal TMC leader Firhad Hakim sparks row
Dec 14, 2024, at 10:06 pm
Kolkata: Firhad Hakim, a senior leader and legislator of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, has once again sparked controversy with his communal comments.
Mamata Banerjee should lead INDIA bloc: Lalu Prasad Yadav
Dec 10, 2024, at 03:02 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: In more support for the West Bengal chief minister, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav has backed Mamata Banerjee to lead the opposition alliance INDIA.
Dec 10, 2024, at 12:14 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid escalating tension between India and Bangladesh over the atrocities on minorities in the neighbouring country, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday asked political leaders to refrain from making any provocative statements.
Dec 08, 2024, at 12:40 pm
Pune/IBNS: Responding to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's remark that she is "willing to lead the INDIA alliance," NCP (Sharad Pawar) MP Supriya Sule said that they would be happy if the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief took on more responsibility within the opposition alliance.
Mamata Banerjee questions Congress’s leadership as INDIA bloc allies outperform in key states
Dec 07, 2024, at 09:36 pm
Kolkata: After the Congress’s lacklustre performance in the recent Assembly polls across states, despite a modest improvement in the Lok Sabha polls, its allies in the INDIA bloc have begun to dismiss the party’s potential as a formidable opponent to BJP. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent comment about leading the opposition alliance further highlighted this sentiment.
Dec 04, 2024, at 08:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has outrightly rejected West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's proposal to deploy United Nations peacekeepers in violence-hit Bangladesh, questioning the veteran politician's understanding of how such a force is sent on an assignment in a country.
Dec 03, 2024, at 05:02 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday reminded her party colleagues about her absolute authority in the Trinamool Congress' decision-making amid the rumour over a possible power-struggle involving her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
UN force should be deployed, PM Modi must intervene: Mamata Banerjee on Bangladesh unrest
Dec 02, 2024, at 07:41 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should intervene in the ongoing Bangladesh unrest and batted for the deployment of peacekeeping forces of the United Nations in the neighbouring country.
Nov 30, 2024, at 07:36 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has slammed the Trinamool Congress (TMC) after one of its leader's husband was arrested in West Bengal's Darjeeling with confidential DRDO documents and dangerous nuclear materials worth crores, media reports said.
Mamata Banerjee backs Modi govt's stand on arrest of Hindu monk in Bangladesh
Nov 28, 2024, at 07:30 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she will support whichever stand the central government takes in connection with the arrest of Hindu monk and International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) saint Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari in Bangladesh, media reports said.
Won't be a rubber stamp for Congress: TMC signals rifts in INDIA bloc
Nov 28, 2024, at 03:50 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Trinamool Congress Wednesday refused to be a "rubber stamp" for its ally's decisions, signalling a rift in the INDIA bloc, media reports said.
Mamata Banerjee's TMC set to clean sweep West Bengal bypolls
Nov 23, 2024, at 04:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) is set to sweep the six assembly byelections 6-0, warding off the criticisms it had faced over the RG Kar rape-murder case.
FIRs filed against BJP's Mithun Chakraborty over alleged 'inflammatory' speech in Kolkata
Nov 08, 2024, at 02:40 am
Kolkata: Two cases have been registered against actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty for making an inflammatory speech at the party's membership drive in Kolkata's Salt Lake, media reports said.
Violent protests erupt in Bengal's South 24 Parganas over TMC govt's housing scheme beneficiary list
Oct 31, 2024, at 07:34 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Tension erupted in a part of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas after the Mamata Banerjee government released lists of beneficiaries in the state's housing scheme, media reports said.
Oct 29, 2024, at 01:47 am
Kolkata: West Bengal, which is already charged up with intense Trinamool-BJP rivalry, witnessed further escalation on Sunday as actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty delivered a fiery message, vowing a tit-for-tat response to any violent overtures by Mamata Bannerjee’s ruling party.
Oct 22, 2024, at 07:32 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Monday countered with facts by a junior doctor after the state head made a bizarre remark that a person can't be called an accused until charges are proven.
Oct 22, 2024, at 06:48 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front on Monday called off their indefinite hunger strike after 17 days on request from the parents of the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August.
RG Kar: Mamata Banerjee promises to look into agitating doctors' demands after 2-hour meeting
Oct 22, 2024, at 03:00 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The highly-anticipated meeting between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and protesting junior doctors aimed at resolving the ongoing crisis following the brutal rape and murder of a medic at RG Kar Medical College took place for nearly two hours on Monday evening.
RG Kar: Junior doctors to meet Mamata Banerjee today with hunger strike on
Oct 21, 2024, at 04:58 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal junior doctors will on Monday meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for a dialogue over their demands for a reformed health system in the state in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee medic at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Oct 19, 2024, at 10:25 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday outrightly rejected the junior doctors' demand to sack state health secretary NS Nigam over the RG Kar rape-murder case as well as corruption in the sector.
Oct 19, 2024, at 08:58 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday dialled junior doctors appealing them to call off hunger strike over the incident where a 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August.
Setback for Mamata govt as Calcutta HC allows Bengal junior doctors' carnival in Kolkata
Oct 15, 2024, at 08:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In another courtroom setback for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed junior doctors' carnival rejecting Kolkata Police's imposition of Section 163 of BNSS in the central part of the city.
Oct 05, 2024, at 08:55 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress leaders faced massive backlash from locals at Mahishamari in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas after a minor girl was allegedly kidnapped and murdered triggering fresh public fury against the Mamata Banerjee government.