Kolkata: Amit Mitra, principal chief adviser to CM Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday said GST in its current form had lost the purpose for which it was rolled out."At the Bengal Business Conclave, Mamata Banerjee expressed her anguish over the current mess in GST and rightly said that I advised her to support GST. Why did I? In 2009, I brought to her attention that small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has leveled serious accusations against the Election Commission. She claims the EC, in league with the BJP, is deliberately removing 1.5 crore voters from Bengal's electoral roll KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused Election Commission, which she said is being led by "Vanish Kumar babus", of conniving with "BJP khokababus" to delete the names of 1.5...
Darjeeling: The 182-year-old St Andrew's Church near Mall Road in Darjeeling, which had been restored by the state govt, was virtually inaugurated by CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday. The CM inaugurated the restored structure, with its distinctive Gothic-style features intact, during the 15th Kolkata Christmas Festival at Allen Park on Park Street."The conservation work of St Andrew's Church,...
Kolkata: The SIR led to the deletion of 44,787 electors from the Bhowanipore constituency. With 2,06,295 electors in chief minister Mamata Banerjee's constituency before the revision, one in five names, 21.7%, were deleted in the current exercise.The list indicates that at Mitra Institution Booth No. 260, under the CM's own polling station, 127 names were excluded, of which 13 individuals died. The...
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched a vitriolic attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government over Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids against opposition leaders and multiple issues, saying the party is "playing a dirty game".A spirited Banerjee, recovering from a knee injury that has kept her sidelined for almost a month, passionately claimed that...
HOWRAH(WEST BENGAL): The situation in Howrah town, which witnessed clashes between two groups during a Ram Navami procession, is peaceful and under control on Saturday, even as prohibitory order was still in force in the affected area, a police officer said.Shops and markets opened as traffic movement started from the morning amid heavy deployment of police in Kazipara area. Taking over investigations...
HOWRAH(WEST BENGAL): Fresh incidents of stone-throwing by unidentified people on police personnel, deployed in Howrah's Kazipara area which witnessed violence over the Ram Navami procession on Thursday, triggered tension in the area on Friday afternoon, an officer said.The police had to use batons to disperse a group of people who had gathered there. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were...
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