Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress are so implacably opposed to the Left Front that was ousted from decades in power that she and her party functionaries spare no opportunity to it them for

When most of the business groups are shying away from investing in West Bengal, Himadri Chemicals and Industries, one of the largest Indian coal tar pitch (CTP) manufacturers has now lined up

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has taken serious exception to the Union government’s inability to accede to her request for a one-time special financial package to enable the

Around a thousand people had gathered at Shibpur, south of Kolkata, on an October morning to take part in the Shri Mahaluxmi Mahayajna being conducted by Swami Prakharji Maharaj of Haridwar. He was

Bailout packages for fiscally stressed states are in the works, as the government seeks to garner political backing for the key policy reforms it plans to fast-track after the five state elections.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a key ally of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre, will have the last word on proposals for rises in railway fares in

When she was asked at the Jaipur Literature Festival why she had not married, Oprah Winfrey responded by saying she “wasn’t the marrying kind” and that “marriage called for

Altogether 87 infants died in different hospitals in Malda district alone in the month of January. There are incidents of infant death in some other districts too. The exasperated chief minister

Mamata Banerjee’s memoir is now available in English. In the following excerpts from the book, she describes her campaign in Singur, West Bengal, against the state’s acquisition of