Kolkata City News (Calcutta)
(Monday, 06 February 2012 21:46) Governor M K Narayanan said on Monday that he was ready to talk to Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders after their president Bimal Gurung hit out at the state government for “delaying” the formation of Gorkha Territorial Administration (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:45) Almost throwing a challenge at state labour minister Purnendu Basu - who has ruffled feathers of the state government employees’ unions by threatening to withdraw the “full trade union rights” given to them during the Left regime - the CPM controlled state coordination committee has called a strike in all government offices on February 28. (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:43) The Calcutta High Court on Monday stayed the payments of compensation to families of victims in the hooch tragedy, for eight weeks. (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:41) Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may claim that peace prevails everywhere in West Bengal since her party came to power in the state, but police records say a different story altogether. (Monday, 06 February 2012 21:37) (Sunday, 05 February 2012 22:24) The move to instal CCTVs in the chambers of senior bureaucrats and ministers at Writers' has sent jitters down the corridors of power so much so that ministers who were once upon a time kind enough to show a cabinet paper or a government file to his favourite reporter is not even allowing them to enter their chambers. (Sunday, 05 February 2012 22:21) Having realised that the wages being given to prison inmates are far less than the government stipulated “minimum wages”, the West Bengal government has at last felt the need to revise the wage rates of the prisoners undergoing rigorous imprisonment at correctional homes across the district. (Sunday, 05 February 2012 22:19) Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Sunday refuted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegations that the Centre has not giving any assistance to the state by saying that in the last eight months that the Trinamool Congress government had been in power, the Union government had provided Rs 8,000 crore to the state government. (Sunday, 05 February 2012 22:16) Fuelling speculation about a rift in the Trinamool, party MP and chairman of Haldia Development Authority Suvendu Adhikary has accused the shipping ministry it of taking an “ indifferent attitude” on the issues concerning dredging of navigation channels at Haldia Port. (Sunday, 05 February 2012 22:08) The chill between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress in West Bengal continued to deepen with TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee slamming the Congress for opposing Mamata Banerjee and daring it to go to the polls alone.
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