Addressing the annual Martyr's Day Trinamool Congress rally, Banerjee, also the Trinamool supremo, spent almost the entire speech attacking the BJP, concluding by leading a chorus of party leaders and supporters shouting the slogan "BJP, Bharat chorho" (BJP, Quit India).

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday congratulated India women's team captain Mithali Raj on becoming the leading run-getter in One-day Internationals (ODI), going past England player Charlotte Edwards record of 5992 ODI runs.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday indicated she was open to holding discussions with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the Darjeeling situation, even as she blamed "foreign forces" close to the BJP for playing a part in the flare-up in the hills.

Using unusually strong language, Banerjee said the Governor spoke a functionary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and not like the state's constitutional head.

Backing Banerjee, senior state minister Subrata Mukherjee reprimanded Tripathi for "adopting a tone of hatred" during his telephonic talk with Banerjee, and virtually challenged the governor to "do what he can".

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday squarely blamed the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) for unleashing violence in northern West Bengal hills where protests and arson took center stage, as GJM activists, including the women's wing, clashed with the police, ratcheting up their demand for a separate Gorkhaland state.

The battle between the Mamata Banerjee dispensation and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) in the picturesque Darjeeling hills may not have an end in sight yet, but humanity, under the hashtag 'Darjeeling Spirit' did put up a strong fight and won amid all the ugliness.

A countrywide row over the new rules restricting the sale of cattle with Youth Congress activists in Kerala publicly killing an ox and the state's ruling Left Front holding over 300 "beef festivals" while West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee threatened legal measures against the "unconstitutional" provision seemed to force the government to rethink.

Upbeat after the ruling Trinamool Congress made impressive gains in the civic polls in the West Bengal hills, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said a new era has started in the region after decades.

In West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's backyard, BJP chief Amit Shah entered the shabby dwelling of Arjun Maity, a sugarcane juice vendor, at the Chetla lockgate slum. The senior politician enquired about Maity's well-being, had 'rosogolla' and sweetened buttermilk at his home, and left after learning about the shortage of toilets and basic amenities for women there.