Former minister Shahnawaz Hussain won in Bhagalpur.
'Mamata did not stand up for those who suffered owing to the chit fund scam, but only stood up for Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar because he has all the knowledge about the chit fund case.'
Repeated requests by Deputy Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal failed to restore normalcy forcing him to adjourn the House.
Claiming that Congress was in "coma" and Bharatiya Janata Party would be unable to form the government after Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said it was time for "like-minded forces" to capture power at the Centre.
There was speculation that India might sign a civil nuclear pact with Russia in its attempt to garner support in the Nuclear Suppliers Group, of which Russia is an important member.
Has the UPA decided that, Hyde Act or not, there's no risk at all of a US ban on our further nuclear testing because we are not going to do another test?
The Left Front government led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal got tributes from the US-India Business Council.
"I don't rule out the possibility of finding a consensus. It depends upon what steps the government takes. After all, it is not a one-issue or a one-party government but a coalition," said CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan. Bardhan accused the United States of rushing its high officials and diplomats to India to "pressurise the government and the BJP" to go ahead with the deal. "Some times there are allurements, sometime threats and sometime blackmail," Bardhan said
"One message that the US is articulating very clearly to India is that this is an opportunity that doesn't come around often. They ought to take this opportunity," US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said. "We don't have forever. The reality of our politics is that the Congress made a huge effort to pass the necessary law in the United States. The Congress has to have one more vote that has to be taken. We don't want to go too deep in 2008." he said.
A group of Indian-American community leaders are planning to travel to New Delhi and convince the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front to accept the deal as it is in the best interests of both countries. "Many of us are planning a trip to New Delhi in November to meet leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpai, L K Advani, Brajesh Mishra, Prakash Karat and others to exchange ideas," said chairman of the Dallas based US-India Forum, Ashok Mago.
'Neither the Centre nor the state is helping us, rather they are coming up with new ways to create stumbling blocks for the return of money.'
The Congress on Friday suspended two of its legislators for voting for the Trinamool Congress in the Rajya Sabha biennial election for five seats in West Bengal.
The bypolls for four seats were conducted on September 16.
West Bengal's Left Front government is working on a proposal to find a solution to the stand-off over acquisition of land in Singur for Tata Motors' car plant, veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu said on Friday.
Bharatiya Janata Party workers on Sunday staged a demonstration outside the Communist Party of India-Marxist headquarters in New Delhi
The apex court said banning entry of women to Kerala's Sabrimala temple is gender discrimination and the practice violates rights of Hindu women.
Is the CPI-M willing to acknowledge that its cadres were involved in the violent incidents in Nandigram?
The share of the four Left parties may drop drastically to 38 to 48 seats from their present tally of 59 seats.
West Bengal: Jaitley meets Mamta over poll alliance
The new Left Front government in Kerala was targeting Rs 1000 crore (Rs 10 billion) investments and Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) income from the tourism sector this year besides aiming to generate 50,000 employment opportunities.
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Non-availability of minimum facilities is the sacrifice the rural poor are being forced to make in pursuit of the Left's ideology.
'The success of the bandh showed that the people had little confidence in the government. We hope that the government has been able to understand the message of the people,' Banerjee said.
It seems the Congress just does not have the energy and vitality to break through even in the states where it has a ground presence and the wind of anti-incumbency on its back, says Aakar Patel.
The land acquisition process by the West Bengal government for the Tata Motors plant here suffered another setback on Tuesday with farmers preventing a hearing by the administration on those who did not wish to give up their land.
While the Trinamool government, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, tried its best to attract investors, including from Singapore, not much headway could be made.
DP World (formerly known as Dubai Ports) is keen on setting up a greenfield airport in West Bengal near Kolkata, which is a long standing demand of the ruling Left Front government.
The new alliance is called United Democratic Alliance.
Governor Tathagata Roy also administered the oath of office to BJP leader Jishnu Deb Burman as the deputy chief minister along with seven other ministers, including Indigenous People's Front of Tripura chief N C Debbarma.
Not a single opposition party is saying it is against industrialisation and this reinforces our belief that people are not against industrialisation as a concept
In the midst of her speech, punctuated by critical comments against the United Progressive Alliance government for hiking petrol prices and also the West Bengal's Left Front government, Mamta swayed and collapsed.
The Trinamool chief said she could not discuss party affairs with her colleagues over telephone.
For the 2019 polls, the BJP chief deployed over 7,000 leaders to oversee the work of polling committees on the over 400 seats the BJP contested. These committees were asked to focus on 120 seats the party had lost in 2014, but believed it could win in 2019.
Banerjee said she was doing so after consulting leaders of major opposition parties and following 'a favourable court order'.
Company MD Ravi Kant meets Chief Minister Buddhadeb, discusses plan.
In a bid to enter the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal, Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo members Sitaram Yechuri and Brinda Karat on Monday filed their nominations for the upcoming election to the Upper House.
More than 65,000 sex workers, their families and clients on Monday threatening to boycott polls.
After having bonhomie with BJP for quite sometime, the Trinamool's relations with the party have also soured on the issue of seat sharing.
