Author: Joymala Bagchi

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 […]

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: In the wake of rising cases of Covid-19, the Centre on Saturday asked the governments of Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana to ramp up vaccination and testing. In a letter to health secretaries of seven worst-affected states, the Union health ministry cautioned them against the rise of Covid infections further […]

KOLKATA: Japan has approved the booster shot of Covaxin, the anti-Covid vaccine developed by India’s Bharat Biotech, for travellers, the drug maker announced on Friday. “We are proud to announce that Japan has approved COVAXIN booster dose for travellers. Another global recognition of the effectiveness of our universal COVID vaccine,” Bharat Biotech stated. Earlier in April, […]

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: Ending all speculations and a strong protest from the state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bengal Chief Minister will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi today at 4.30 pm. Later on, Banerjee is also likely to meet President Draupadi Murmu. In her meeting with PM Modi, Banerjee is likely to raise issues like MGNREGA […]

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 […]

KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee-led Bengal government on Wednesday inducted nine new faces including famous singer Babul Supriyo into the cabinet. The new ministers were sworn in at Raj Bhavan. Among the prominent names, Supriyo gets the IT and Tourism ministry while Snehasis Chakraborty gets the transport ministry. Pradip Majumder was allotted the department of panchayat and […]

KOLKATA: A Special Court in Kolkata has sent former Minister Partha Chatterjee and his close associate Arpita Mukherjee to two more days of ED custody till August 5th in the alleged SSC recruitment scam on Wednesday. But the war of words between the learned counsels from both sides once again lit up the courtroom. Looking […]