The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Police have started a probe to identify those who allegedly chased and assaulted traffic constable Nepal Chandra Banerjee before confining him to a pharmacy on Kiran Shankar Roy Road on Tuesday.
International News (I.N. Daily) (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Published Sunday January 4th, 2009 Sidhartha Banerjee, THE CANADIAN PRESS http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/529524 MONTREAL - Thousands of placard-toting, flag-waving protesters spilled into the streets of Montreal on Sunday, calling on the Canadian government to apply pressure on Israel to stop its military offensive in Gaza. The boisterous-but-peaceful group made up adults and children...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The police later lathicharged the protesters, including some high court lawyers, to “rescue” Banerjee from the pharmacy in which he was being held hostage. By evening, Mamata Banerjee was in the fray, leading the campaign for the constable’s arrest and demanding an official apology for “police high-handedness”.
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Congress in protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza that was addressed by its chief Mamata Banerjee, he wondered what it was worth, as the party was not known for taking any ideological stand in international affairs.Condemning Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip, Ms. Banerjee demanded that the Centre send relief and representatives to Gaza and also urge to the United Nations to...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the Centre and the CBI six weeks to file a status report on the probe into Kargil defence purchases, indicating disciplinary or criminal action taken against the officers concerned for irregularities and illegalities. When the matter was taken up by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam, Attorney-General Milon K. Banerjee sought...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The possibility of a Congress-Trinamool alliance in West Bengal appears bleak. There have been several rounds of discussions between Congress president Sonia Gandhi, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, but there are stark differences over seat-sharing for the coming Lok Sabha elections. The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) has...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... Das, Gopa’s sister-in-law, told Metro.Bengal’s director of medical education, Soumendra Nath Banerjee, declined comment on the matter.Around midnight, Gopa was taken to SSKM Hospital, where she was first admitted to the emergency ward and then shifted to the New Casualty Block. She was finally admitted to the burns ward around noon on Tuesday.“Even at SSKM, we had to run from pillar to post...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... BCCL’s senior over man S N Singh and miner Ramanand Bhuyan, BCCL (Lodna Area) general manager T K Banerjee said, adding that search operation is on for the third missing miner C Bhuyan. Stories in this SectionArchivesFeatures: Stories in this SectionArchivesFeatures: The Hindu Group: Group Sites: Copyright © 2009, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
NEW DELHI: After making a hue and cry over the alleged Rs 2,400-crore Kargil arms and ammunition purchase scam, the Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court about its inability to honour a nearly two-year-old direction for filing a status report of the CBI probe into various tainted purchases. Immediately after Attorney General Milon Banerjee expressed the Centre's inability to file a status...
Businessofcinema.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... where it won three awards. Tahaan stars Anupam Kher, Sarika, Rahul Bose, Rahul Khanna and Victor Banerjee. The film's script was the official script selection for the Pusan Promotional Plan at the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival. The film has been produced by IDream Production and Santosh Sivan Films.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... reservations about four lawyers, Uttam Kumar Majumdar, Debdutta Sen, Anit Kumar Rakshit and Arijit Banerjee, and he expressed that in a letter to the law ministry,” said the official. In his letter, the chief minister doubted Majumdar’s academic qualifications and Sen’s law degree. The reservations over Rakshit were based on conduct “unbecoming of that of a high court judge” while the letter...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... slum dwellers in the area buy liquor from illegally-run shops. Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who visited the area Sunday evening, demanded a probe by a sitting judge of the Calcutta High Court. Banerjee threatened to lay siege to the West Port police station on Tuesday if the culprits were not brought to book.
Times of India (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... Bhattacharya said on Monday. He was particularly scathing about Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's attempt to seize political mileage over an issue as grave as protection of the environment. "There is something terribly wrong with the way everything is politicized with electoral gain in mind. Instead of squatting near the chief minister's residence, shouldn't the Opposition leader...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... were threatened by Communist party of India (Marxist) activists,” Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee alleged.“An eight-year-old child and three women were seriously injured when CPI(M) men attacked them on their way to the booth,” Subhendu Adhikary, local Trinamool leader, alleged. Sujapur poll peaceful Byelection to the Sujapur constituency in Malda district passed off peacefully....
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... I am back on the road again (yes, I am sure I will be — thanks to Subhas Chakraborty or Mamata Banerjee, or both!).I made my debut on city roads in February 2007 after Allauddin Ali bought me from a showroom in Hyde Road. I was then handed over to Mohammed Lallan, the 21-year-old trendy youth from Dara Para, off Bridge Number Four, who was to drive me on the Lohapul-Chandni Chowk route....
