West Bengal CM acknowledged that while the law is paramount but the "humanitarian efforts must not be compromised."
Trinamool ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, MLA Madan Mitra and former mayor of Kolkata Sovan Chatterjee were arrested on May 17 by the CBI which is investigating the Narada sting tape case on a 2017 order of the High Court.
Former Maharashtra CM Narayan Rane said that if Balasaheb Thackeray was alive today, he would not have compromised with his Hindutva ideology. But Uddhav Thackeray is helpless as he is attending the meeting called by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday took a dig at West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee by calling her conduct "an insult to people of Bengal".
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday conducted an aerial survey of cyclone-hit areas in North 24 Parganas district, officials said.
"Our police are not idle. We are not like the BJP government. Whether it is a rape incident or not we can ascertain only after getting the post-mortem report," she said.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly handed over mementoes to Hasina and Banerjee in the presence of sporting greats like Sachin Tendulkar, Sania Mirza and Mary Kom among others.
Banerjee urged the Muslim community not to trust leaders visiting from outside and only repose faith on leaders from the state as they can only fight for the cause of the people of West Bengal
Speaking before a congregation of Sikhs on the eve of Guru Nanak's birthday, Banerjee said she had told city mayor Firhad Hakim to identify land for the building in the south-eastern fringes of the city
Speaking before a congregation of Sikhs on the eve of Guru Nanak's birthday, Banerjee said she had told city mayor Firhad Hakim to identify land for the building in the south-eastern fringes of the city
Talking to reporters at city airport before leaving for the national capital, Banerjee said she would also raise issues like name change of the state as well matters like merger of public sector banks during the meeting.
The implementation of the NRC as nothing but a political vendetta of the BJP-led central government. she told the Assembly.
The central government should have shown him "minimum respect", she told the state assembly here.
The crop insurance scheme would be "free of cost for the farmers" as the government would pay the entire premium and the insurable crops are Aman and Aus paddy, jute and maize.
However, senior TMC leader and Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Giasuddin Mollah dismissed the allegations as baseless and defended the decision by saying the ongoing project will benefit all students.
While Banerjee termed the over one-and-a-half-hour long meeting as "positive and productive" and urged the doctors' to immediately end the strike for the sake of the ailing patients, the young doctors said they were eager to get back to work, calling the deliberations a "move towards the positive direction".
Three chief ministers, including Mamata Banerjee and K Chandrashekhar Rao, gave it a miss to the fifth meeting of the Governing Council of Niti Aayog chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday.
The doctors, who struck work for the fourth day Friday, refused to meet the chief minister, demanding an unconditional apology from her.
Hours after over 100 doctors in West Bengal resigned on June 14, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she 'won't let West Bengal become Gujarat’.
As trends showed a saffron surge in Bengal, the residence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in South Kolkata's Kalighat wore a deserted look on Thursday with just a handful of Trinamool Congress supporters gathered outside.
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