US Ambassador to meet Buddhadeb Oct 13

August 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee cancelled his trip to New Delhi for the internal security conference of chief ministers convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday due to ill-health. The chief minister was down with fever for the last few days and was still very weak, said an official in his secretariat.

June 23rd, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal government Tuesday said the central government's decision to extend the ban on the Communist Party of India-Maoists under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act was also applicable to the state. "This act is applicable in the whole country.

June 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal Government has convened a second round of an all-party meeting in Kolkata on Sunday evening over cyclone relief issue. The meet to be presided over the Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is meant to expedite relief and restoration works in Aila-hit districts in the state.

May 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee held a 45-minute meeting here Friday night but they did not speak to the media. The duo met at the NSC Bose International Airport, where Mukherjee flew in after a day's visit to his Lok Sabha constituency of Jangipur in Murshidabad district.

May 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Amid speculation about his offering to resign, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday met Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch Jyoti Basu but refused to speak to the media. The chief minister went to the state secretariat, Writers' Buildings in the morning and came out of it in the evening only, and left for Basu's house in the satellite Salt Lake township.

May 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday said the Left parties did not consider Congress party "untouchable". But they were working to form a Third Front government at the Centre and might join it if they could play any meaningful role in it.

May 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Left will join a government in which it can play a 'meaningful role', Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here Monday. 'If an alternate government is formed according to an unified agenda, there is a change in the country's internal, economic and foreign policies, and we can play a meaningful role to achieve that, we will join that government,' Bhattacharjee told reporters at a meet-the-press programme here.

May 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday accused the opposition Trinamool Congress of playing with the sentiments of the Muslims to strengthen their vote bank in the state. 'We've been noticing that Trinamool Congress is mentioning the word 'Muslim' everywhere.

May 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday said the Left would join the government if it can play a meaningful role in policy making and implementation. Addressing at the 'meet the press' programme here, he said, "We are trying to form a Third Front Government at the Centre with like-minded secular and democratic parties and the Left will play a meaningful role in it." Keeping his options open, he said, "Let the elections be over and results be announced.

April 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission over alleged hate remarks made by a Trinamool Congress candidate against West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. CPI-M politburo member Sitaram Yechury said: 'We have brought to the notice of the commission one of the interviews given by Kalyan Bandopadhyay, a candidate of Trinamool Congress, during which he made wild and improper allegations against Buddhadeb.' Yechury said the statement aired by a private television channel was on record.

April 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - Chinese auto major First Automobile Works (FAW) officials Monday met West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and discussed proposals for setting up an automobile manufacturing facility in the state. 'The FAW officials had come.

April 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - It was his dream that Tata Motors small car Nano would roll out from the Singur facility, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here Saturday. 'It was my dream that Nano will roll out from Singur and that dream is not completely shattered,' Bhattacharjee said while releasing a book, 'Creating Employment Generation and Opportunity', by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) candidate for Lok Sabha election from South Kolkata Robin Deb.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A majority of people in West Bengal believe that Tata Motors moving out of Singur is not good for the state, and many have given the electoral thumbs down to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, whose sustained anti-land acquisition campaign forced Tata to move the Nano plant to Gujarat, according to an opinion poll. The poll conducted by NDTV news channel says that West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is the most popular leader in the state and is likely to retain his post.

March 29th, 2009 SILIGURI - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday said the possibility of the Left supporting a Congress-led government at the centre after the coming Lok Sabha elections cannot be ruled out, but that would depend on the post-election scenario. 'Now our attempt is to form a non-Congress and non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the centre,' Bhattacharjee told reporters after a party conference in northern West Bengal's Siliguri town.

March 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's escaped unhurt in an accident on Thursday after the police pushed a person who drove his two-wheeler into Bhattacharjee's convoy. Bhattacharjee was heading towards the state secretariat from his 59A Palm Avenue residence in the southern part of Kolkata.