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Somnath Chatterjee

Type: Person

Name: Somnath Chatterjee

Title: Speaker of the 14th Lok Sabha

Organization: Lok Sabha

Date of Birth: 25/07/1929

Place of Birth: Tezpur (Assam)

Nationality: India

Fact Sheet: Biography for Somnath Chatterjee

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Digvijay Singh

Cong wants debate on comment trend

The current mood in the Congress is in favour of a wider debate on the trend of judicial comments, observations made during hearing of cases before judges.There is nothing wrong in it, let us have a healthy debate on it, viewed the party officials privately ... [Published Asian Age - May 15 2013]

Entities: Digvijay Singh, Somnath Chatterjee, Mamata Banerjee, Lok Sabha

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Marxist Communist Party of India

Police lathicharge students in Kolkata

Kolkata, May 14 (IBNS): Police on Tuesday lathicharged hundreds of students in Kolkata who were protesting against the chit fund scam that hit the state recently. The police reportedly lathicharged the crowd before violently dispersing the students.However, ... [Published India Blooms - May 14 2013]

Entities: Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Marxist Communist Party of India, Police, Somnath Chatterjee

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Lok Sabha

Govt mulls ordinance option on food security bill

NEW DELHI: The government is exploring options of issuing an ordinance on the . KV Thomas told ET , constitutional and legal aspects of bringing about an ordinance were being considered. An ordinance will help the legal framework for implementing the ... [Published Economic Times - May 09 2013]

Entities: Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee, New Delhi (India)

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

BA Packaging appoints Somnath Chatterjee as additional director

BA Packaging India has informed that Mr. Ranadurjoy RoyChoudhury, Managing Director of the Company has resigned from the directorship of the Company with effect from April 29, 2013. Further, Mr. Somnath Chatterjee has been appointed as the Additional ... [Published Moneycontrol.com - May 06 2013]

Entities: Somnath Chatterjee, Appointed, India

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Nara Chandrababu Naidu

NTR statue unveiling at Parliament: TDP upset

The 13-year-old controversy over installation of the statue of TDP founder president N.T. Rama Rao in Parliament House has developed fresh strains at the goal post with the TDP nursing a grouse that it did not receive invitations from the Lok Sabha Speaker's ... [Published The Hindu - May 05 2013]

Entities: D Purandeswari, Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Rajya Sabha, Tanguturi Prakasam

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Rashtriya Janata Dal

Sacked ex-MP rejoins Rashtriya Janata Dal

Medininagar: Manoj Kumar Bhuyan, who was expelled from the Parliament on cash-for query in 2007, rejoined Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Friday.He was taken back at a function presided by RJD's Jharkhand legislature party leader Annapurna ... [Published Jagran Post - May 04 2013]

Entities: Rashtriya Janata Dal, Lok Sabha, Annapurna Devi, Somnath Chatterjee, Manoj Kumar

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Somnath Chatterjee

Somanath worried over house stalling

Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Monday expressed concern over repeated stalling of the Parliament proceedings and said it would not augur well for the nation. ... [Published Times of India - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Somnath Chatterjee, Lok Sabha

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Saradha Group effect: Questions over retrospective nature of chit fund legislation

ll will empower govt to punish enterprises & individualsWith the Mamata Banerjee regime readying to crack the whip on the chit funds by bringing a new bill, a debate has begun whether it will stand up to judicial scrutiny as the government has apparently ... [Published Financial Express - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Hashim Abdul Halim, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Somnath Chatterjee, Partha Chatterjee, Calcutta High Court

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 3 reports

After Saradha scam, West Bengal chit fundbill to have retrospective effect

KOLKATA: The new bill that aims to crack down on sham deposit companies will have retrospective effect and also allow confiscation of properties, a minister said today in a move by the to try to contain the political fallout of Saradha chit fund scam ... [Published Economic Times - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Partha Chatterjee, Somnath Chatterjee, West Bengal Government

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Tributes pour in for 'makeover king'

Late was the quintessential Bengali whose faith in Bengal withstood the test of time. RP?s friends and industry captains on Thursday described him as the ?makeover king? for changing lives.For former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, RPG was like ... [Published Hindu Business Line - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Somnath Chatterjee, Industrial Development Corporation, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and I..., Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Appeal to stall exam nod to failed 25

April 14: The principal of a Bolpur college has written to Burdwan University requesting it to stall the registration process of 25 students who were permitted to apply for their Part-I exam although they failed their selection test. The request by the ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Somnath Chatterjee, M. K. NARAYANAN, Resignation

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

College return plea to Somnath

Suri, April 3: Purni Devi Chaudhuri Girls? College in Bolpur today faxed a letter to Somnath Chatterjee requesting him to withdraw his resignation and rejoin as the president of the institution?s governing body. The former Lok Sabha speaker said he would ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Somnath Chatterjee, Resignation, Lok Sabha

Quotes

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee backed the view, saying, "there is no constitutional or legal bar on the government in promulgating, when parliament is not sitting, an ordinance to enforce the provisions of any bill, even one in the house."

Govt mulls ordinance option on food security bill [Published Economic Times - May 09 2013]

"once it becomes an act, the new legislation will be able to effectively deal with scams like saradha group. the new bill will be more stringent and empower authorities to confiscate and not merely attach the assets of perpetrators of frauds" Chatterjee said

After Saradha scam, West Bengal chit fundbill to have retrospective effect [Published Economic Times - Apr 28 2013]

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Govt mulls ordinance option on food security bill [Published Economic Times - May 09 2013]
BA Packaging appoints Somnath Chatterjee as add... [Published Moneycontrol.com - May 06 2013]
NTR statue unveiling at Parliament: TDP upset [Published The Hindu - May 05 2013]
Sacked ex-MP rejoins Rashtriya Janata Dal [Published Jagran Post - May 04 2013]
Somanath worried over house stalling [Published Times of India - Apr 30 2013]
Saradha Group effect: Questions over retrospect... [Published Financial Express - Apr 29 2013]
After Saradha scam, West Bengal chit fundbill t... [Published Economic Times - Apr 28 2013]
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New bill on chit funds by WB govt sparks off de... [Published zeenews.com - Apr 28 2013]
Exam bar on failed students [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 18 2013]
‘Amidst flight of capital Goenka reposed faith ... [Published The Hindu - Apr 18 2013]
Tributes pour in for 'makeover king' [Published Hindu Business Line - Apr 18 2013]
The tycoon who stuck by Bengal: The loyalties o... [Published Firstpost.com - Apr 15 2013]
Appeal to stall exam nod to failed 25 [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 15 2013]
A-touch-of-crass [Published Hindustan Times - Apr 14 2013]
Eight MPs failed to declare their assets despit... [Published Money Life - Apr 12 2013]
College return plea to Somnath [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 03 2013]
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College bends, Somnath resigns [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Apr 02 2013]
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Dr. Swamy [Published Times of India Blogs - Apr 02 2013] The legal profession has thrown up some gems that adorn the political sphere from every political party including the Congress, BJP and the Left- P. Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, Ashwani Kumar, Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Manish Tiwari, H.R. Bharadwaj, Ram ...