Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate’s renewed questioning of former minister and Madhyamgram MLA Rathin Ghosh has put the spotlight back on a growing cluster of legal troubles surrounding members of the Trinamool rebel camp, with multiple netas facing probes, ranging from alleged recruitment scams and corruption to an NIA probe linked to protests and highway blockades.Ghosh…
KOLKATA: Hours after Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking protection from any coercive action in the CID case of Trinamool MLA signature forgery case, the Enforcement Directorate issued summons to him in the primary teachers’ recruitment irregularity case.Banerjee was asked to appear before ED’s Kolkata zonal office on June…
Tollygunge BJP MLA Papiya Adhikari at Technician studio at Tollygunge on Wednesday.Photo Basabdatta Sarkar Kolkata: In the presence of major Tollywood stakeholders and actors, Tollygunge BJP MLA Papiya Adhikary on Wednesday introduced the Eastern India Motion Pictures & Cultural Confederation (EIMPCC), an organization she now leads as president. According to her, the confederation will, among…
KOLKATA: City mayor Firhad Hakim, reportedly rattled by the loss of control over Kolkata Municipal Corporation after Trinamool’s poll defeat, is likely to step down this week, possibly on Friday.Hakim is said to have told party chairperson Mamata Banerjee that he was feeling “suffocated”, and sought her permission to resign.“I have not resigned,” Hakim said…
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee is synonymous with the Trinamool Congress, and the Trinamool Congress is synonymous with her, echoed party loyalists, including the MLAs and the workers as the party faces one of its biggest defections in 28 years following the defeat in assembly polls.“Mamata Banerjee represents the real Trinamool, the very woman who gave birth…
The legislative wing of Trinamool Congress — the party that has governed Bengal for the last 15 years after being formed by Mamata Banerjee on Jan 1, 1998 — split on Wednesday. KOLKATA: The legislative wing of Trinamool Congress — the party that has governed Bengal for the last 15 years after being formed by…
Kolkata: Ritabrata Banerjee, the Trinamool Uluberia East MLA, who claimed the Leader of Opposition seat at the assembly on Wednesday with support of 58 out of 80 MLAs, said no MLA will be treated as servants but everyone will be given equal status. He also pointed out Abhishek Banerjee as the main reason behind the…
Kolkata: State health officials said six flyers who arrived in Kolkata from either Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or Uganda in recent weeks are under home surveillance by health officials. While none of them have any symptoms this surveillance was part of an SOP to be followed after the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic…
Indradeb Bhattacharyya, a senior West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) officer serving as a Joint Secretary, suffered a critical fall from the 4th floor staircase at Khadya Bhavan (the Food and Supplies Department headquarters) in Kolkata. Pix:- Biplab Bhattacharjee Kolkata: Indradeb Bhattacharya (51), who was critically injured after a fall from the fourth-floor stairwell balcony of…
Surendra Nath College in Kolkata —— TOI Kolkata: Cops probing the recovery of a firearm and two suitcases stashed with cash — most of it destroyed by termites — from the college union room at Surendranath College on Tuesday have booked two Trinamool Congress functionaries under the Arms Act, criminal trespass, criminal intimidation and sections…
