Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee's promise to return 400 acres of Singur land back to the farmers has run into not one, but a possible seven road blocks, reports CNBC-TV18.

The West Bengal government’s announcement of returning the proposed 400 acres land to the farmers has made the vendors of Tata Motors heave a sigh of relief as atleast 35-40 out of 56 vendors have made advance payments on land to the government, reports CNBC-TV18’s Swati Khandelwal Jain.

After the Singur and Nandigram incidents, land acquisition is one boiling issue that the new West Bengal government will have to deal with. But that's not the only one, report CNBC-TV18 Amrita Panja and Vidhi Godiawala.

Now that the elections are over, the real challenge facing West Bengal is the economic state that Mamata Banerjee and her ministers have inherited. Can they turnaround a stagnant economy in just five years and if so, how will they do it or will the task prove far too daunting?

In the state election, Amit Mitra defeated former West Bengal finance minister Asim Dasgupta by a 26,000 vote margin. Amit Mitra hopes UPA and Mamata will bring steady change in West Bengal’s fiscal health. Tatas will undoubtedly come back to Bengal, Mitra said.

For thirty-four years, the mighty Left front has proved to be India’s most durable political machine winning election after election with massive majorities. When the election results began to pour out, people were stunned. It was a moment when most of Bengal believed would never come.

Parthasarathi Shome, the Director and Chief Executive at ICRIER and Cho Ramaswamy, the Editor of Thuglak, in an interview on CNBC-TV18, spoke about the implications the election verdict would have on the UPA-II's reform agenda.

In an interview with CNBC-TV18’s Karan Thapar, Kapil Sibal, from the Congress party; D Raja, from the CPI; Saugata Roy, from the Trinamool Congress, Editor-in-Chief of the Hindu, N Ram and the well-known political analyst Yogendra Yadav, analyse the message from the people of India in election results.

CNBC-TV18 catches up with Arvind Gemini, director, Kalindee Rail Nirman to discuss the growth prospects of the industry under the new regime. He said he expects the Mamata government to push for quick execution of the pending projects.

Trinamool Congress candidate and FICCI secretary-general Amit Mitra, in an interview with CNBC-TV 18's Anuj Singhal termed the assembly polls victory in West Bengal as 'historical' change.

I am a bit surprised by the way market has reacted to the Assembly election result, says Udayan Mukherjee.

West Bengal and Tamil Nadu election results will give us a clear idea of what is the future of Mamata Banerjee, the Left, Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi? But already tension and anticipation are bubbling over as everyone predicts the outcome. CNBC-TV18’s Karan Thapar discusses the issue with an eminent set of panelists.

Friday the 13th may prove to be a make or break day for the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA). In an interview with CNBC-TV18's Shereen Bhan, CNN-IBN's Rajdeep Sardesai, speaks about his expectations.

Investors across India would keep an eye on tomorrow's Assembly polls results of key states as voters finally decide who will rule their states.

The CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll surveys conducted by the CSDS reveal surprising trends among voters in all four states.

After 34 continuous years in power, the mighty Left Front may finally be destroyed. West Bengal has found a new Maa Durga in a crumbled Saree and that Maa Durga is 56 year old Mamata Banerjee.

As the campaign in Bengal gets underway we ask how realistic is the widespread expectation that Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress heading for certain victory or after 35 years in power are we foolishly forgetting the Left’s strengths.

Baba Kalyani, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Forge talks about his expections from the budget this year. He expects to see some tinkering on the import duty. “There will be some tinkering on this import duties but the import duties are fairly low right now, so any reduction would help,” he says.

With the Union Budget announcement around the corner, Sanjaya Baru of Business Standard tells Udayan Mukherjee and Mitali Mukherjee, that he does not expect any surprises to be rolled out this budget. He believes that the Finance Minister has chance with this budget to prove he is a forward thinking policy maker.

Indian Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee presented a populist Railway Budget for financial year 2011 in Parliament on Friday.