Mamata Banerjee Protest Against Centre

Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar's statue on Red Road in the heart of the metropolis, surrounded by a cohort of TMC leaders and workers under television camera arclights.

BJP chief JP Nadda and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee traded barbs - he claimed the ruling Trinamool was blocking the state's development and she accused the opposition of lying - on Tuesday while campaigning for the forthcoming election

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday condemned the detention of historian Ramachandra Guha and others in Bengaluru for staging a peaceful protest against the amended citizenship law and NRC.

Amid ongoing protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act in several parts of the country, the centre today issued an advisory asking state governments to curb instances of violence and take steps towards stemming the circulation of "fake news" aimed at inciting people on social media.

Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared that the Trinamool Congress will hold state-wide protests against the centre next week for making Gujarati an optional language in JEE (Main), an examination held to facilitate admissions in engineering, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is a planning a protest against the tax the BJP-led Central government is trying to impose on Durga Puja committees of the state. In a series of tweets today, Ms Banerjee said the Income Tax department has issued notices to many committees who organise Durga pujas, asking them to pay taxes.

Nearly 300 doctors resigned from government hospitals in West Bengal as their protest against an attack on their colleagues earlier this week in Kolkata escalated on Friday. Demanding better security at hospitals, doctors in Bengal and across India skipped work and held demonstrations. The country's top medical body also announced a nationwide stri...

Nearly 300 doctors resigned from government hospitals in West Bengal on Friday as their protest against an attack on a colleague earlier this week in Kolkata escalated. Doctors across the country will boycott work on Monday to express solidarity with their Bengal counterparts whose strike continued for the fourth day. Junior doctors in several stat...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the Centre of trying to cause riots and bring down her government, saying it was because she was protesting against the BJP's misdeeds. The Chief Minister -- who was hailed as a "tigress" yesterday by Shatrughan Sinha -- also issued a veiled warning to the BJP, saying "an injured tiger is more dan...

The Ministry of Home Affairs has reportedly asked the West Bengal government to initiate disciplinary action against five police officers who took part in protests against the CBI in Kolkata earlier this week, sources said. It also reportedly plans to strip them of their medals in keeping with the All India Service Rules.

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's sit-in protest against the CBI's bid to question Kolkata police chief in chit fund cases has seen a galaxy of supporters from the opposition. However, the Trinamool Congress chief received unlikely support from BJP ally Shiv Sena who attacked the Modi government over the face-off.

Mamata Banerjee today declared a "moral victory" as the Supreme Court said Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar, who is at the heart of her indefinite protest sit-in against the central government, would not be arrested. But in what the central government described as a "moral victory for the CBI", the court has ordered Mr Kumar to appear on February ...

Union Minister Arun Jaitley hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister who is on a sit-in protesting against the central government. Responding sharply to Ms Banerjee's massive protest and the outpour of support from other opposition parties, Mr. Jaitley, in a blog, attacked the opposition, calling it "a Kleptocrat's Club".

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's sit-in protest against the centre entered Day 3 amid a full blown political stand-off that saw a host of opposition leaders extending support to the Trinamool Congress chief.

Rahul Gandhi's support for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's ongoing sit-in protest against the centre had the BJP hunting for archives that can be tossed at the Congress chief to reveal what the party "diagnosed" as his "personality states".

Mamata Banerjee sat overnight in front of Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar's statue on Red Road in the heart of the metropolis, surrounded by a cohort of TMC leaders and workers under television camera arclights.

BJP chief JP Nadda and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee traded barbs - he claimed the ruling Trinamool was blocking the state's development and she accused the opposition of lying - on Tuesday while campaigning for the forthcoming election

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday condemned the detention of historian Ramachandra Guha and others in Bengaluru for staging a peaceful protest against the amended citizenship law and NRC.

Amid ongoing protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act in several parts of the country, the centre today issued an advisory asking state governments to curb instances of violence and take steps towards stemming the circulation of "fake news" aimed at inciting people on social media.

Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared that the Trinamool Congress will hold state-wide protests against the centre next week for making Gujarati an optional language in JEE (Main), an examination held to facilitate admissions in engineering, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is a planning a protest against the tax the BJP-led Central government is trying to impose on Durga Puja committees of the state. In a series of tweets today, Ms Banerjee said the Income Tax department has issued notices to many committees who organise Durga pujas, asking them to pay taxes.

Nearly 300 doctors resigned from government hospitals in West Bengal as their protest against an attack on their colleagues earlier this week in Kolkata escalated on Friday. Demanding better security at hospitals, doctors in Bengal and across India skipped work and held demonstrations. The country's top medical body also announced a nationwide stri...

Nearly 300 doctors resigned from government hospitals in West Bengal on Friday as their protest against an attack on a colleague earlier this week in Kolkata escalated. Doctors across the country will boycott work on Monday to express solidarity with their Bengal counterparts whose strike continued for the fourth day. Junior doctors in several stat...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the Centre of trying to cause riots and bring down her government, saying it was because she was protesting against the BJP's misdeeds. The Chief Minister -- who was hailed as a "tigress" yesterday by Shatrughan Sinha -- also issued a veiled warning to the BJP, saying "an injured tiger is more dan...

The Ministry of Home Affairs has reportedly asked the West Bengal government to initiate disciplinary action against five police officers who took part in protests against the CBI in Kolkata earlier this week, sources said. It also reportedly plans to strip them of their medals in keeping with the All India Service Rules.

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's sit-in protest against the CBI's bid to question Kolkata police chief in chit fund cases has seen a galaxy of supporters from the opposition. However, the Trinamool Congress chief received unlikely support from BJP ally Shiv Sena who attacked the Modi government over the face-off.

Mamata Banerjee today declared a "moral victory" as the Supreme Court said Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar, who is at the heart of her indefinite protest sit-in against the central government, would not be arrested. But in what the central government described as a "moral victory for the CBI", the court has ordered Mr Kumar to appear on February ...

Union Minister Arun Jaitley hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister who is on a sit-in protesting against the central government. Responding sharply to Ms Banerjee's massive protest and the outpour of support from other opposition parties, Mr. Jaitley, in a blog, attacked the opposition, calling it "a Kleptocrat's Club".

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's sit-in protest against the centre entered Day 3 amid a full blown political stand-off that saw a host of opposition leaders extending support to the Trinamool Congress chief.

Rahul Gandhi's support for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's ongoing sit-in protest against the centre had the BJP hunting for archives that can be tossed at the Congress chief to reveal what the party "diagnosed" as his "personality states".