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KOLKATA: After Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Partha Chatterjee in connection with the multi-crore SSC Scam, rumours were rife of the party abandoning the Bengal minister. Now, the arrest memo, which was accessed by The New Indian, suggested that Chatterjee had tried to reach TMC supremo and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee […]

NEW DELHI: In an embarrassment for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a poster that the party had put up honouring freedom fighters included a photograph of a scholar from Bangladesh. The poster, which was later removed, was put up in the Jamia Nagar area. The matter came to the fore on Sunday when people spotted […]

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) completed organizing Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) on Sunday in which more than 15 lakh students appeared. RBSE officials on Sunday evening announced that the exams were conducted peacefully in which all the state machinery was involved. REET exam coordinator Meghna Chaudhary said that all the state […]

DEHRADUN: Rare optical phenomenon ‘Sun Halo’ or 22-degree halo in which a rainbow appears around the Sun was visible in Dehradun skies on Sunday. Bikram Singh, director of Meteorological Centre, Dehradun, said, “The phenomena occur due to refraction of sunlight in millions of hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Our eyes see the colours […]

NEW DELHI: Calcutta High Court on Sunday ordered to shift arrested All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) Minister Partha Chatterjee to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar from Kolkata’s SSKM Super Speciality Hospital. The High Court order came after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) approached it challenging a lower court order of sending arrested Bengal […]