Rebel Trinamool Congress MP Arup Chakraborty alleged Mamata Banerjee faces “family pressure” and cannot function freely, fueling a deepening party rift KOLKATA: The ongoing rift within the Trinamool Congress escalated further on Monday morning after rebel MP Arup Chakraborty made explosive claims about the circumstances surrounding party chief Mamata Banerjee’s leadership and the role of…

Kolkata: Stronger enforcement measures are needed to stop manufacture, distribution and sale of illicit liquor, said the Society for the Welfare of West Bengal Foreign Liquor Licenses. At an event on Sunday, the society called upon the state govt to consider reforms in the liquor trade. It has also called for the rationalisation of trade…

Kolkata: TMC Barasat MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar resigned from the post of the party’s Barasat organisational district president on Sunday. In a letter addressed to state party president Subrata Bakshi, she stated that she was stepping down taking moral responsibility for the party’s defeat in Barasat. While doing so, she attacked political consultancy agency I-PAC…