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Samajwadi Party offers support to UPA if Trinamool removed
( 24-May-2010 )
Kolkata: The Samajwadi Party has offered to provide issue-based support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government if it removed the Trinamool Congress from its fold.
Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav confirmed that his party has already given such a proposal to the UPA-II.
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In Sundarbans, weak embankments a major concern this monsoon
( 12-Apr-2010 )
Kolkata: The memories of last year's cyclone Aila are still fresh in the minds of thousands of people living on the Sundarbans islands. Fear of another catastrophe looms as the embankments reconstructed by villagers may not stand strong during the monsoons.
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Buddhadeb resents Chidambaram's language
( 05-Apr-2010 )
Kolkata: Taking exception to union Home Minister P. Chidambaram's remark that in tackling inter-party clashes the "buck should stop at the chief minister' table", Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said it was not the "language of a politician".
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Once Uma approaches us, BJP will take stand: Gadkari
( 01-Apr-2010 )
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari ducked a question on the return of Uma Bharti into the party, saying the leadership will spell out its stand on the issue after she approached it.
"We will finalise our stand when she tells me or some other leader," Gadkari sai .... |
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Gadkari flays Congress for 'blacklisting' Amitabh
( 01-Apr-2010 )
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari has criticised the Congress for "blacklisting" Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
"Amitabh is a great actor of our country. He has enhanced India's reputation worldwide. Just because madam (Sonia Gandhi) and 'r .... |
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Haldia clashes will affect investment, fears Buddhadeb
( 01-Apr-2010 )
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Budhhadeb Bhattacharjee has voiced 'grave concern' over clashes between rival trade unions in the industrial town of Haldia in East Midnapore district, and said these would impact investment in the state.
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Chidambaram to review anti-Maoist operation Saturday
( 31-Mar-2010 )
Kolkata: Home Minister P. Chidambaram will review the anti-Maoist operation in West Bengal's Lalgarh and other areas with chief Minister Buddahdeb Bhattacharjee Saturday.
Chidambaram is slated to return to Delhi Sunday, official sources said.
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Gadkari blames UPA's bad governance for price rise
( 31-Mar-2010 )
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari has blamed "bad governance" of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for the spiralling prices of essential items.
"History tells us that whenever the Congress is in power, prices go up," Gadkari said at a .... |
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I refused to be a party slave: Kabir Suman
( 30-Mar-2010 )
Kolkata: After expressing a desire to quit the Trinamool Congress and the Lok Sabha, singer-turned-parliamentarian Kabir Suman Tuesday said he took the decision as he refused to be a slave of the party.
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Nine bodies found in Stephen Court rubble, death toll 43
( 29-Mar-2010 )
Kolkata: Nine more bodies were recovered from the rubble in Stephen Court Monday, taking the death count of the March 23 blaze to 43.
The West Bengal government has formed a 11-member probe panel to find the cause of the tragedy.
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11-member committee to probe Stephen Court fire
( 29-Mar-2010 )
Kolkata: About a week after the killer fire at Kolkata's iconic Stephen Court, the West Bengal government Monday formed an 11-member probe panel to look into all aspects of the tragedy and fix responsibility for any negligence on the part of state agencies, landlord or tenants.
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Inferno in Kolkata's Park Street kills two, injures many
( 23-Mar-2010 )
Kolkata: At least two people were killed and scores trapped when a raging fire broke out in a landmark British-era building in the heart of Kolkata's bustling Park Street Tuesday. The blaze in the top floors of the eight-storey commercial and apartment block could not be controlled even after fo .... |
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Manipuri militant outfit's chief held in West Bengal
( 15-Mar-2010 )
Kolkata: Three militants, including the chief of the outlawed Manipuri insurgent outfit Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), have been arrested from West Bengal's Darjeeling district, police said Monday.
According to police, N. Tomba alias Koireng, 57, the commander-in-chief of the KYKL, was arreste .... |
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Maoists free abducted teacher to scribes
( 09-Mar-2010 )
Kolkata: A schoolteacher abducted by Maoists was handed over unharmed to mediapersons in the Mohulboni forest of West Bengal and went back home saying he would continue to teach, police said Tuesday.
He was released Monday night, three days after his abduction in West Midnapore district. "Ranj .... |
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