Mamata Banerjee Newspaper

In the midst of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, a newspaper clip carrying news about West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is going viral on social media.

A gang of around 20 men -- allegedly led by the son of a controversial Kolkata Imam who was recently in the eye of a storm over his use of a red beacon -- tried to storm the office of an Urdu newspaper yesterday to protest against its editorials and articles critical of the cleric.

A day after an advertisement of a new political outfit, the Nationalist Trinamool Congress, appeared in newspapers prompting speculation about Mr Mukul Roy floating the party, the sidelined Trinamool leader today denied having any association with the advertisement or the new outfit.

The Calcutta High Court has ordered that the Mamata Banerjee government must give advertisements to Ganashakti, a Bengali daily that is affiliated to the CPI-M. The order was passed on February 27 by Justice Debangsu Basak but came to the notice of the newspaper on Friday evening. It is not known yet if the state government plans to challenge this ...

A year and a half after Mamata Banerjee's government ordered the removal of most English-language newspapers from all state libraries, the Calcutta High Court has undone the decision.

The Saradha Group that collapsed last month controlled many television channels and newspapers in West Bengal. So do some other companies that have been accused of running Saradha-like get-rich-quick schemes.

Controversy, it seems, will not leave the Hillary-Mamata meeting alone. First there was the row over Foreign Direct Investment or FDI. Now there is turbulence over the gift that the US Secretary of State gave to the West Bengal Chief Minister. The gift was a piece of cloth with Rabindranath Tagore's face embroidered on it. And the words of one of h...

In the midst of intense criticism and negative publicity over several recent decisions, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to fight back with plans to launch her own television channel and newspaper.

Stung by criticism of her government's choice of newspapers for state-aided libraries and a professor's arrest over circulation of a cartoon showing her in poor light, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged a section of the media saw her government in poor light. She said the media appeared to paint a negative picture of her gover...

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...

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

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 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...

In the midst of the 2024 Lok Sabha election, a newspaper clip carrying news about West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is going viral on social media.

A gang of around 20 men -- allegedly led by the son of a controversial Kolkata Imam who was recently in the eye of a storm over his use of a red beacon -- tried to storm the office of an Urdu newspaper yesterday to protest against its editorials and articles critical of the cleric.

A day after an advertisement of a new political outfit, the Nationalist Trinamool Congress, appeared in newspapers prompting speculation about Mr Mukul Roy floating the party, the sidelined Trinamool leader today denied having any association with the advertisement or the new outfit.

The Calcutta High Court has ordered that the Mamata Banerjee government must give advertisements to Ganashakti, a Bengali daily that is affiliated to the CPI-M. The order was passed on February 27 by Justice Debangsu Basak but came to the notice of the newspaper on Friday evening. It is not known yet if the state government plans to challenge this ...

A year and a half after Mamata Banerjee's government ordered the removal of most English-language newspapers from all state libraries, the Calcutta High Court has undone the decision.

The Saradha Group that collapsed last month controlled many television channels and newspapers in West Bengal. So do some other companies that have been accused of running Saradha-like get-rich-quick schemes.

Controversy, it seems, will not leave the Hillary-Mamata meeting alone. First there was the row over Foreign Direct Investment or FDI. Now there is turbulence over the gift that the US Secretary of State gave to the West Bengal Chief Minister. The gift was a piece of cloth with Rabindranath Tagore's face embroidered on it. And the words of one of h...

In the midst of intense criticism and negative publicity over several recent decisions, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to fight back with plans to launch her own television channel and newspaper.

Stung by criticism of her government's choice of newspapers for state-aided libraries and a professor's arrest over circulation of a cartoon showing her in poor light, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged a section of the media saw her government in poor light. She said the media appeared to paint a negative picture of her gover...

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...

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

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 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...