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New Delhi: West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday raised the issue of renaming the state during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The West Bengal assembly has passed a resolution to rename the state as ‘Bangla’. Describing her meeting with the prime minister as fruitful, Banerjee told reporters […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday pulled up the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for creating panic through a ‘fake campaign’ on the National Register for Citizens (NRC) issue, which she claimed led to the death of six persons in the state. “Shame on the BJP for creating panic over the NRC in […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticised the Centre for adding Gujarati as a medium for the Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) and asked why all other regional languages, including Bengali, should not be included as well. The Central Board of Secondary Education had added Urdu, Marathi and Gujarati in 2014 to the […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday evening wrote to Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar saying it the governor’s obligation to support the state government to maintain peace and not aggravate the situation through his provocations. Banerjee expressed her sadness over his taking to the Twitter frequently to criticise of her government and urged the […]

Kolkata: The West Bengal government is planning to pass a resolution in the state Assembly against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the next three-four days, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday. Banerjee also appealed to other states, particularly those in the North-East, to pass such resolutions. “We have also passed a resolution against NRCA […]