NIA searches former TMC MLA Saukat Mollah’s house in Bhangar blast case KOLKATA: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted searches at the residence of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Saukat Mollah in South 24 Parganas district as part of its investigation into a bomb blast in Bhangar ahead of the recently concluded West…
KOLKATA: The BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya posted a video on social media purportedly showing a TMC leader hiding under his bed to escape a furious crowd, and said the “cut-money scam” in West Bengal was “producing scenes straight out of a political farce” on Thursday .He said the video was from Cooch Behar…
Tourism in Sundarbans Tiger Reserve Kolkata: A new rule on guide allotment introduced in the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve has led to confusion over hiring of guides by tourists in the delta.Sources said the rule, which mandates allotment of guides during the online booking itself, is unprecedented and is not in effect in any tiger reserve…
Representative image generated using AI KOLKATA: As World Environment Day approaches on June 5, this year hosted by Azerbaijan under the theme “Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future”, the conversation globally tends to drift toward the visible and the vivid: forests, oceans, melting glaciers. Steel rarely makes the cut. It is unglamorous, industrial,…
Bidhannagar mayor Krishna Chakraborty resigns KOLKATA: Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) mayor Krishna Chakraborty resigned from her post on Thursday, submitting her resignation letter to BMC commissioner Ravi Agarwal at Salt Lake Poura Bhavan.In her resignation letter, Chakraborty cited personal reasons for stepping down.“I have resigned fully for personal reasons. There is nothing else behind it….
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…
