Author: Joymala Bagchi

KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee government sacked tainted mantri Partha Chatterjee on Thursday, six days after he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the teacher recruitment scam. “Partha Chatterjee, minister in charge, department of industry, commerce and enterprises, department of information technology and electronics, department of parliamentary affairs and department of public enterprises and […]

KOLKATA: Sharpening its voice against the SSC Recruitment Scam, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee plans to organise a massive protest rally and agitation programme on Saturday. West Bengal Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Choudhury will be present in the protest rally that will begin from PCC Headquarters, Bidhan Bhavan to Dharmatala Y Channel. The protest […]

KOLKATA: In a big development in the ongoing Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into the Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam, Arpita Mukherjee said that state industries minister Partha Chatterjee used to keep money at her home. Mukherjee, a key aide of the Bengal minister, is in the spotlight after ED recovered more than ₹51 crores from her […]

KOLKATA: The skeletons started tumbling out of the closet on Wednesday as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered more cash from Arpita Mukherjee’s Belghoria residence in Kolkata. ED conducted the searches in connection with the Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam after the financial probe agency got the 10-day custody of Mukherjee, a close aide of Bengal industries […]

KOLKATA: From the plush accommodation to a makeshift lock-up on the seventh floor of Kolkata’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) office, the change in fortune of Bengal industries minister Partha Chatterjee was quite apparent. ED sources told The New Indian that Partha Chatterjee is living in a 7 by 8 feet well-furnished room at the office. However, […]

KOLKATA: The ₹21 crores SSC Recruitment scam, that involved one of the top leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), is like an onion, opined Enforcement Directorate (ED) counsel Abhijit Bhadra. Talking to The New Indian, Bhadra said, “This stage of the investigation is just like an onion. The more you peel, the more you […]

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien slammed the central government on the suspension of 19 opposition RS MPs on Tuesday. “More than suspension of MPs, its democracy that has been suspended in India,” O’Brien said as 19 Rajya Sabha MPs from the opposition camp have been suspended for the week to attend the […]

KOLKATA: With Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee finding herself caught in the quagmire over the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s arrest of her industries minister Partha Chatterjee in the multi-crore SSC recruitment scam, Congress is leaving no opportunity to target the beleaguered TMC supremo. Senior congressman Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, president of the Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, wrote […]

KOLKATA: At the special court’s hearing regarding the SSC scam matter, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday produced a deed that shows that both the accused — West Bengal tainted minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee —  are associated with each other since 2012. “During the search at residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee, […]

KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) inventory of items recovered from the aide of tainted Mamta cabinet minister Partha Chatterjee, now under the custody of the agency at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, includes ₹76 lakh jewellery items, 27 phone models of Apple, Samsung, Nokia and Blackberry and deeds of company agreements . Arpita Mukherjee is a former […]