Angry mob torches two buses in West Bengal

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit flagged off 160 low-floor buses, including 30 air conditioned ones, here on Sunday. With these, the total number of low-floor buses plying on the roads of the capital has gone up to 763.

September 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Politburo of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is meeting for the second day on Sunday, and all eyes are on whether West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will attend after having skipped the opening day on Saturday (September 5). On Saturday, the Politburo reportedly discussed the Vedic Village land scam in West Bengal, which has caused a great deal of embarrassment to Bhattacharjee.

August 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Minister for Transport, Sports and Youth Affairs Subhas Chakraborty passed away at a private hospital in Salt Lake on Monday. Sixty-eight-year-old Chakraborty is survived by his wife and a son.

August 1st, 2009 KOLKAKA - Several State buses were torched, as the vehicles owners reportedly damaged the vehicles to protest against the West Bengal Government's crackdown against the 15-year-old vehicles on the streets of Kolkata which began here on Saturday. Most of the vehicles owners decided not to take out any vehicle more than 15-year-old on Saturday.

July 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Union Finance Minister and West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday ruled out any possibility of further division of West Bengal. Mukherjee said this while commenting on the indefinite bandh that has been called by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha(GJM) in the Darjeeling Hills, which has been demanding for creation of a separate state of Gorkhaland.

July 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal Congress Committee has called for a 12hour long statewide bandh on Friday, to protest against the alleged police atrocities on its workers during Thursday's 12 hour long shutdown. Congress called for 12hour long shut down on Thursday to protest against the attack on its MLA s in Mongalkote in Burdwan district on Wednesday.

June 18th, 2009 LALGARH - The West Bengal Police, supported by central paramilitary forces, initiated the operation to flush out Maoist from Lalgarh in West Midnapore District of West Bengal. It was the forth day, since the red brigade captured nearly fifty villages in and around Lalgarh, which is nearly 150 Km from the state capital Kolkatta, and declared it as the liberated zone.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - To boost urban transport under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), states have placed orders for buying 7,815 buses under the one time economic measure of funding of buses by the Ministry of Urban Development. Government has so far sanctioned the purchase of 14,695 buses for the various mission cities under JNNURM.

April 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) faces a tough fight in the Lok Sabha elections but would get a majority of seats in West Bengal, the party's general secretary Prakash Karat said here Tuesday. 'We will have a tough battle in the elections, but we have faced situations in the past when the opposition had virtually come together without an alliance,' Karat told reporters in response to the Congress and Trinamool Congress joining hands in the state.

March 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Activists of Trinamool Congress and Congress party organised a yagna here for the success of the alliance of these two parties in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha. This was consequent to the finalisation of the tie-up and sharing of seats between the two parties in West Bengal.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Election commissioners are leaving for West Bengal and Orissa later Wednesday to review poll preparedness in the two states. The three members of the Election Commission (EC) - Chief Election Commissioner N.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party will contest 14 out of 42 seats of West Bengal, where as its ally the Trinamool Congress (TC) will contest from 28 seats. Announcing the seat sharing agreement, AICC in-charge of West Bengal K Keshav Rao that they have entered into a seat sharing pact with the TC with the objective of ending the over 30 years of misrule of the CPI-M, which has shattered the economy of West Bengal.

January 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal government may start rationing petrol and diesel, a senior official said here Friday on day-three of the crippling oil sector officers' strike. 'We might consider rationing of petrol and diesel in the state if this panic situation prevails, people are procuring petrol or diesel more than actually required,' Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty told reporters.

January 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Two buses were set ablaze Saturday by protesting Trinamool Congress-backed auto-rickshaw operators protesting a court ban on ageing public transport vehicles in the city and to demand the release of 18 arrested protesters. Commuters were greatly inconvenienced as very few auto-rickshaws and taxis plied on the road in response to the Trinamool Congress-sponsored 12-hour strike.

December 25th, 2008 NEW DELHI - As the Delhi government announced it would phase out 100 Blueline buses every month starting from March next year, the authorities Friday impounded over 150 of these privately-owned buses and cancelled their licences. The Delhi Police spokesperson said permits of 158 Blueline buses were cancelled for flouting norms.