Politics

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 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday warned Rahul Gandhi and Congress that the way they are behaving in the investigation of the National Herald case is inappropriate. “The way Rahul Gandhi and senior leadership of the Congress is behaving in this National Herald investigation case is uncalled for and inappropriate. First, you […]

NEW DELHI: The Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for over seven hours on Thursday in connection with the National Herald alleged money laundering case. Kharge, who left the Parliament during the mid-session, arrived at the Herald House at around 12.30 […]