Trinamool Congress

NEW DELHI: Nothing happens in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) without the approval of Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said Sukanta Majumdar, the state chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He blamed the TMC supremo for Bengal’s corruption. “Without the direction of Mamata Banerjee, Partha Chatterjee couldn’t have anything because it is a very common […]

KOLKATA: In a twist in the Bengal Cattle Smuggling Scam, the physician who advised Anubrata Mondal to take a 14-day bed rest later admitted that he was compelled to recommend bed rest for the Trinamool strongman. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who arrested Mondal on Friday night, also questioned the two doctors of Bolpur […]

  KOLKATA: After skipping the Vice Presidential election, the Trinamool Congress has decided not to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Vice President elect Jagdeep Dhankar on Thursday.  According to sources, TMC Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien and Lok Sabha leader Sudeep Bandhopadhyay have been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony that is scheduled for 11.45 am […]

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will probe how the properties of leaders and ministers of West Bengal are growing phenomenally. As many as 19 leaders will be under the scanner and most of them are ministers, MLAs, and leaders of the ruling party Trinamool Congress (TMC). The list includes names such as Arjun Singh, Sovan […]

  NEW DELHI: It was not a Louis Vuitton this time, but a different handbag, raising questions if it was an attempt to tone down flamboyance, vanity or gravitas. But firebrand Mahua Moitra is uncompromising when it comes to her fashion statement. The proof is: She dropped her classy Louis Vuitton but came to attend […]

KOLKATA: Ignoring Mamata Banerjee’s diktat to abstain from the Vice Presidential election, two Trinamool Congress Members of Parliament Shishir Adhikari and Dibyendu Adhikari exercised their franchise on Saturday. Shishir Adhikari is the father of the current Leader of Opposition in the Bengal Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari. Dibyendu, on the other […]

  KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the cattle smuggling case on Monday. The TMC leader has been asked to appear before the agency’s office in Kolkata at 11 am for questioning. Mondal has already appeared before the agency on two occasions […]

KOLKATA: The raging high-voltage drama at the special courtroom hearing of Kolkata’s multi-crore scam case, involving a suspended minister from CM Mamata Banerjee’s Cabinet Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee became more pronounced on Friday. The defense counsel and Enforcement Directorate (ED) lawyer continued to be at loggerheads during the hearing. While praying for […]

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has called the daughter and son-in-law of tainted former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee to join its investigation in the multi-crore SSC recruitment scam.    The financial probe agency had sent emails to Chatterjee’s US-based daughter Sohini Bhattacharya and son-in-law Kalyanmay Bhattacharya to immediately come to Kolkata and join the investigation.  The […]

NEW DELHI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday. The meeting between the two has raised much speculation, concern and heartburn in the West Bengal BJP. Justifying the scheduled meeting, a senior BJP leader told The New Indian, “The concerns of West Bengal BJP are […]