Mamata shows her humane side, orders lowering of food prices in new train

October 4th, 2009 SILIGURI - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday announced a new train service between this northern West Bengal town and the coastal tourist destination of Digha in East Midnapore from Monday. "We'll flag off a new train from Siliguri to Digha tomorrow (Monday), which will connect two tourist spots of the state.

September 21st, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Home Minster P. Chidambaram flagged off the super fast Duronto Express train between Chennai and New Delhi on Monday.

September 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee flagged off Sealdah-New Delhi Duronto express, the country's first point-to-point non-stop train in Kolkata. The Duronto express will cover the 1447-km distance between Sealdah and New Delhi in 16 hours and 20 minutes.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has lauded Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's train ride as part of his party's austerity drive. Mamata Banerjee, who inaugurated the newly spruced up terminal of New Delhi railway station in the capital along with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday, lauded the austerity act.

August 23rd, 2009 PATNA - Women activists of Janata Dal (United) women's cell staged a protest here against soaring prices of essentials commodities on Saturday. The protestors wearing vegetable garlands and holding brooms raised slogans against the UPA Government for not checking the price rise.

August 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the first ever 'Only Ladies' EMU train services in Northern Railway between Delhi-Palwal at New Delhi station today. In the same function, Union Minister and Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh will also inaugurate another 'Only Ladies' EMU train services by remote, which will run from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to Panvel in Mumbai suburban in Central Railway.

July 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee kept up her promise of a 'ladies special' for harried commuters in Kolkata on Sunday. Banerjee flagged off the ladies special EMU, which will run between Howrah and Bandel stations in Kolkata.

July 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian Railways has over 1.7 lakh vacancies for various grades, which will be filled in after reviving the existing recruitment process, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee informed the Rajya Sabha today. Replying to a question, Banerjee said the review of the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) would also examine regional aspirations and problems raised during the railway recruitment process in Maharashtra, Assam, and Karnataka.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday said her ministry would look at providing infrastructure and land for setting up Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). "We might even look at building IITs in the future," Banerjee told the Lok Sabha in a discussion on the railway budget.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Inflation stayed at -1.3 percent for the third consecutive week ended on June 20. Inflation fell down even though the prices of fruits and vegetables rose compared to the prices during this time in last year.

June 14th, 2009 HOWRAH - Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday publicly disagreed with the prices fixed for food items on board a new express train and asked the officials to reduce the rates. "I have seen the price chart.

May 26th, 2009 KAKDEEP - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee drew cheering crowds by the hundreds on her train ride to a cyclone-hit West Bengal district shortly after taking charge as railways minister in Kolkata. The 110-km ride in a three-coach special inspection train to Kakdeep in South 24 Parganas saw the 'Didi of Kalighat' in high spirits as she chatted with her party colleagues and exchanged pleasantries with accompanying mediapersons.

May 9th, 2009 CHENNAI - Admitting that foodgrain prices had remained high even as the inflation rate came down, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Saturday that the common man will have relief soon. 'It is true that the consumer prices of food grains haven't come down when inflation rates came down.

April 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It was an unusual sight. Residents of South Kolkata were startled to find hundreds of Mamata Banerjees walking in a procession, canvassing for votes for the Trinamool Congress chief.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's annual rate of inflation fell by as much as 200 basis points to a historic low of 0.44 percent for the week ended March 7 against 2.43 percent for the week before, official data showed Thursday. The statistics on wholesale price index, released by the commerce and industry ministry here, showed that the inflation rate dropped to an all-time low because of a decline of 1 percent in the index for primary articles and 0.8 percent in that for fuels over the week.