'Floor coordination between Cong, TMC not to be affected' The West Bengal Congress today said that the abstention by the Trinamool Congress during voting on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha would not come in the way of floor coordination between the two parties in the state assembly.Read »

Bail plea of Haldiram owner rejected by HC The Calcutta High Court today rejected the bail plea of the owner of Haldiram Bhujiawala, Prabhu Shankar Agarwal, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring and attempting to kill a tea stall owner.Read »

Mamata turns in favour of the Women's Bill TMC chief Mamata Banerjee today defended her party's decision to abstain from voting on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha but said she was in favour of the Constitutional amendment. "Our party is committed to the Bill. We will do it," she told reporters outside Parliament.Read »

TMC abstains from voting on Women's Bill Accusing the government of trying to bulldoze the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, UPA ally Trinamool Congress abstained from voting, stating that it was not intimated about it. Read »