Quicker pensions for retiring Bengal teachers: Mamata
Jun 03, 2011
After getting their salary on the first day of the month, there is now more good news for the teaching community in West Bengal. Soon, the teachers in government and government-aided schools will get ... Read More
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At 75, she wants her dowry back
Jun 03, 2011
Married at the age of 15, widowed and left in the lurch at the age of 65, 75-year-old Satyavati Devi's life today is one of penury and she has sought the 220 grams of gold and Rs.7,000 that her paren... Read More
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Mamata effect: Salaries on 1st, clean-up drives in hospitals
Jun 03, 2011
Suparna Nag couldn't believe her eyes when she updated her bank passbook on June 1. In her 15 years of career as a teacher in West Bengal, it was the first time that she got her salary on time, and th... Read More
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A Jharkhand school where all students failed in board exams
Jun 02, 2011
Amid all the buzz over encouraging board exam results all over India, Jharkhand's Deoghar district has a school where all its 147 students have failed in their secondary board examination.... Read More
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Mamata expands subsidised rice scheme
Jun 01, 2011
All tribal people of West Bengal whose annual income is less than Rs.42,000 will get rice at Rs.2 per kg, against the earlier annual income cut-off limit of Rs.24,000, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s... Read More
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Mamata announces plan to revamp Bengal's medical infrastructure
May 31, 2011
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday said existing hospitals and health centres across the state will be upgraded while four super-speciality hospitals will come up in Purulia, Bankura, ... Read More
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Rs.3,500 cr liabilities forced on Bengal: Mitra
May 31, 2011
Charging the Left Front government with mismanaging the state treasury, West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra Tuesday said Rs.3,500 crore of accumulated liabilities had been thrust upon the new Trin... Read More
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Trinamool on a vendetta, Left learning from mistakes: Bhattacharjee
May 31, 2011
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Tuesday attacked the ruling Trinamool Congress for the post-poll violence against Left act... Read More
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37 people feared killed in Assam bus accident
May 31, 2011
At least 37 people were feared killed and six injured in Assam when a bus carrying a marriage party plunged into a gorge after hitting a wooden bridge late Monday, officials said.... Read More
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No partycracy in house, says Mamata in first assembly speech
May 30, 2011
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said she wanted true democracy and not "partycracy" in the assembly and urged newly-elected Speaker Biman Banerjee to give more importance to the oppo... Read More
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