West Bengal Libraries

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  BJP To Use Kolkata's National Library For Meeting, Trinamool Seethes

  West Bengal's ruling party Trinamool Congress has objected to BJP President JP Nadda holding a political meeting on the National Library premises in Kolkata. Mr Nadda is on a two-day visit to the state.

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  Kolkata Gets Its First 'Young Readers' Boat Library' With Over 500 Books

  The West Bengal Transport Corporation in collaboration with a heritage book store here has launched a children's library on a boat, the first of its kind initiative, an official said.

• Court verdict embarrasses Mamata government over newspapers in libraries

  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.

• Who is Mamata Banerjee?

  There is a new word in town - "Didigiri." Inspired by Mamata Banerjee 2012. In this avatar, the fiery West Bengal Chief Minister is acquiring a reputation for what detractors call extreme intolerance. For many months now Ms Banerjee has been in the news more for controversial moves like the arrest of a protesting scientist or a college professor wh...

• Who is Mamata Banerjee?

  Mamata Banerjee has given birth to a new term this year - "Didigiri." In this avatar, the fiery West Bengal Chief Minister is acquiring a reputation for what detractors call extreme intolerance. In the past few days, Ms Banerjee has been in the news more for controversial moves like the arrest of a protesting scientist or a college professor who sh...

• Media paints negative picture of West Bengal government, says Mamata Banerjee

  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...

• 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...