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Bengal panchayat polls notification Friday likely
Kolkata : The state Election Commission may notify the West Bengal panchayat elections on Friday, an official said. “The commission is eager and hopeful of resolving the impasse and it will Thursday meet Additional Director
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People should oppose FDI in retail: Mahasweta
Kolkata : Supporting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision to withdraw from the UPA last September on the issue of FDI in retail, eminent writer Mahasweta Devi on Tuesday exhorted people from all walks
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India’s growth needs more opening, foreign funding: US Envoy
Kolkata : US Ambassador Nancy Powell on Tuesday called for greater economic opening and more foreign investments for India’s higher economic growth, saying “there is more yet to do” in the area of reforms to
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Bengal textile policy to help sector grow, say chambers
Kolkata : With the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal coming up with a draft textile policy to attract investment to revive the sector, leading industry lobbies have expressed hope that the policy roadmap would
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Court rejects bail plea of Saradha group boss
Kolkata : Rejecting the bail plea of Saradha Group promoter Sudipta Sen and one of his close aides, a West Bengal court on Saturday sent them to judicial custody till 31 May. Before entering the
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Mamata regime’s two years a directionless sojourn: Congress
Kolkata : Bringing out an assessment report of West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress government, two days before it completes two years in office, the Congress on Saturday alleged that the regime was moving in a negative
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Bengal election panel seeks changes in poll schedule
Kolkata : The West Bengal State Election Commission on Saturday wrote to the state government seeking a change in the schedule for the panchayat polls and the bunching of districts in each phase. The state government
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Bengal opposition demands central forces for Panchayat polls
Kolkata : Opposition parties in West Bengal on Friday demanded deployment of central paramilitary forces in an all-party meeting convened by the State Election Commission to ensure proper, free and fair panchayat elections. ”We need adequate
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PM must quit: BJP
Kolkata : The BJP on Thursday demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation in view of the series of scams during the UPA rule and said it would contest the 2014 polls on its own strength
Read More »Sudipta Sen now denies links with Trinamool
Kolkata : The Saradha chit fund scam’s suspected kingpin Sudipta Sen who earlier had reached out to the CBI accusing West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress of complicity in the swindle, has now approached the court
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Saradha scam: Suicides, political spats continue
Kolkata : The stream of suicides in the wake of the Saradha chit fund scam – the biggest financial racket to hit West Bengal – continued Thursday with a ‘ponzi’ firm agent found hanging in
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Saradha Realty’s CEO quizzed by Bengal police
Kolkata : A deposit firm agent committed suicide, while police quizzed a CEO of a company under the Saradha group banner on Monday as West Bengal continued to grapple with the fallout of the chit
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Court refuses to suspend ruling on Bengal polls
Kolkata : The Calcutta High Court, hearing the West Bengal government’s appeal over the panchayat polls issue, on Monday refused to suspend its earlier verdict that upheld the primacy of the state election commission. The state
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UPA using central agencies against my party, government: Mamata
Kolkata : Accusing the United Progressive Alliance government of using central agencies to launch a number of probes against her government and party, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said a conspiracy has
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