Bengal Newspapers Ban

• Newspaper controversy handiwork of 'mischievous section', says Mamata Banerjee

  Mamata Banerjee has called the controversy over a newspaper ban in libraries a small matter and the handiwork of a mischievous section. But she has partially bowed to public pressure and included one English daily to the list of newspapers state-run libraries may keep. "It is a small matter. It has become an ego issue for some. It is very unfortuna...

• Mamata Banerjee's party seeks distance from libraries controversy in West Bengal

  Trinamool MP Derek O'Brien has denied that the West Bengal government has banned its libraries from stocking English newspapers

• Mamata's ban on most papers at government libraries attacked

  A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee banned several newspapers in the state-funded libraries, political leaders, especially from the Left, lashed out at the Trinamool leader.

• In Bengal, Mamata to decide what you read

  In West Bengal's 2,482 state run libraries there is a new notice pasted. There will be no English papers to read. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) government has banned all English dailies and at least two leading Bengali newspapers in state funded libraries. The government circular says "In public interest, Government will not buy newspapers publishe...