Mamata Meets Hillary

• No meeting with US Ambassador Nancy Powell, says Mamata Banerjee

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today denied that she was scheduled to meet US Ambassador Nancy Powell in her office in Kolkata this afternoon, hours after her party's website went public with the information.

• Hillary's gift to Mamata full of spelling mistakes

  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...

• Clarify Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) not discussed: Mamata govt to US

  Did Mamata Banerjee and Hillary Clinton discuss FDI in retail? Or did they not? An unseemly row has erupted between the West Bengal government and the US consulate in Kolkata on this issue. The consulate, in a press release yesterday, said investment in the retail sector was discussed. But finance minister Amit Mitra shot off an angry rejoinder sa...

• NDTV Exclusive: Hillary Clinton on FDI, Mamata, outsourcing, and Hafiz Saeed - Full transcript

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata to explore investment opportunities in the state. Before the meeting, Mrs Clinton was at a session at the La Martiniere School for Girls meeting with a cross-section of the people of Kolkata. The session was moderated by NDTV's Group Editor Barkha Dutt.

• Clarify FDI was not discussed, says Mamata govt to US

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's much-hyped visit to Kolkata today ended with the Americans stating that the issue of US investments in retail sector had come up during her meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee which she and her government denied.

• US to treat West Bengal as partner state for investment, says Mamata Banerjee after meeting Hillary Clinton

  The US has agreed to treat West Bengal as a partner state for investment in the changed political situation, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here today.

• Hillary meets Mamata, FDI not discussed says chief minister

  After a handshake and a namaste were exchanged, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met one on one for over an hour at the Writers' Building in Kolkata this morning. Later, Ms Banerjee said Ms Clinton praised her "passion for work" and promised investment for West Bengal at the meeting, which the Ben...

• Hillary Clinton has promised investment in Bengal, says Mamata Banerjee after meeting

  After a handshake and a namaste were exchanged, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met one on one for over an hour at the Writers' Building in Kolkata this morning. Later, Ms Banerjee said Ms Clinton praised her "passion for work" and promised investment for West Bengal at the meeting, which the Ben...

• NDTV Exclusive: Hillary Clinton on FDI, Mamata, Hafiz Saeed and outsourcing

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata to explore investment opportunities in the state. Before the meeting, Mrs Clinton was at a session at the La Martiniere School for Girls meeting with a cross-section of the people of Kolkata. The session was moderated by NDTV's Group Editor Barkha Dutt.

• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Can Hillary convince Mamata Banerjee?

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata to explore investment opportunities in the state. Will she be able to persuade Ms Banerjee to help push the policies she has firmly resisted, chief among them Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail?

• Kolkata fortified for Hillary Clinton's visit

  Tight security was in place as US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrived in Kolkata today, with even outbound and incoming flights from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport halted from the time her plane came on the radar till the point the former first lady and her long convoy left the tarmac.

• Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, a scarf among Mamata's gifts for Hillary

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will gift visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali and Gitabitan, and the collected works of Swami Vivekananda during a meeting with her on Monday.

• Hillary Clinton to meet Mamata Banerjee today; likely to discuss FDI, Teesta

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today at the Writers' Building in Kolkata. Ms Clinton arrived in Kolkata on Sunday as part of her three-day visit to India - the last stop of her tri-nation South Asia tour that included trips to Beijing and Dhaka.

• FBI team reviews security in Kolkata ahead of Hillary Clinton's visit

  Ahead of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Kolkata next week, a team of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today reviewed the security at the state secretariat Writers' Building where she is expected to meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

• Hillary Clinton looking forward to meet 'dynamic' Mamata

  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may press the case for India's stalled policy to open its supermarket sector to foreign chains when she meets its most powerful critic: Mamata Banerjee, the fiery chief minister of West Bengal.