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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: Ahead of the Congress’ planned protest against inflation, unemployment and a host of other issues, former party chief Rahul Gandhi lambasted the government, saying that India is witnessing the “death of democracy” and those standing up against the “onset of dictatorship” are being viciously attacked, arrested and jailed. Addressing a press conference here […]

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 […]

NEW DELHI: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) on Thursday nabbed a man at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) trying to smuggle USD 52,800 concealed in plastic thread rolls. The money was tied around the rolls, with black scotch tape used to conceal these notes, officials said. As per the CISF, at about 11 […]

SRINAGAR: Police on Thursday said that 250gm heroin and cash of over one crore rupees were recovered from two persons, one of whom was killed in an accident while attempting to flee, in the Udhampur district. “On August 3, at about 10.30 pm a patrolling party of police station Udhampur noticed two persons moving in […]