The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the allotment of 1,000 acres by the former CPI(M)-led government in West Bengal to Tata Motors in 2006 for the company’s aborted project to start a Nano car plant in Singur, declaring that the “entire acquisition process was illegal”. A bench of Justices V. Gopala Gowda and Arun Mishra agreed for different reasons, in […]
» Read moreThe Mamata Banerjee government on Tuesday passed a proposal to change the name of West Bengal to Bengal. The proposal was approved at a Cabinet meeting held at the State Secretariat. “We have proposed that in Bengali the name of the State will be Bangla or Banga. In English, the name will be Bengal,” Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said. The […]
» Read moreEminent litterateur and social activist Mahasweta Devi passed away on Thursday afternoon at a private hospital in Kolkata. The 90-year-old Magsaysay awardee was admitted to the hospital in south Kolkata on June 22, 2016 with septicemia and urinary infection. She was also suffering from diabetes. She passed away at around 3 p.m. on Thursday. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted: “India […]
» Read moreIn a major political development in Tripura, six Congress legislators on Tuesday joined the Trinamool Congress. Assembly Speaker Ramendra Chandra Debnath told reporters that he had received a letter from Congress legislator Sudip Roy Barman, who he said was accompanied by three legislators. “The letter was signed by six Congress MLAs informing me that they have joined the Trinamool Congress,” […]
» Read moreTrinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as Chief Minister of West Bengal on Friday, beginning her second stint in the once-Left dominated State. She has already submitted her list of council of Ministers to Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi. Forty-one ministers, including 17 new faces, were sworn in along with her in batches at a function at Red Road […]
» Read more