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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: 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

NEW DELHI: To break the impasse between the Bengal Police CID team and Delhi Police in connection with the cash recovery case involving Congress MLAs from Jharkhand, a senior Bengal Police official reached New Delhi on Wednesday evening. Siddh Nath Gupta, Assistant Director General (ADG) of Bengal Police, travelled to the capital city to meet […]

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 […]

KOLKATA: Former Union minister Babul Supriyo is among the eight new faces who will be inducted into the Bengal government helmed by Mamata Banerjee. Supriyo was with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before switching allegiance to TMC last year after being dropped from the Modi cabinet. The famous singer now represents the Ballygunge constituency in the […]

NEW DELHI: The Leader of Opposition in the Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday met Union home minister Amit Shah. The meeting came against the backdrop of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) tightening its noose around prominent Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee in the multi-crore SSC Recruitment Scam. Sources told The New Indian that Adhikari briefed […]

KOLKATA: Unapologetic during her heydays, Bengal’s indomitable Mamata Banerjee is trying to balance her moves following Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials putting one of her trusted lieutenants, Partha Chatterjee, under custody in a multi-crore Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam. The opinion may be divided but the once defiant Banerjee was more silent in recent times – with […]

KOLKATA: Amidst mounting pressure, Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday suspended Partha Chatterjee from the party till the investigations are over. The TMC disciplinary committee met in Kolkata today and took the decision to suspend Chatterjee, a fellow committee member as well as an influential party leader. TMC’s all-powerful national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee announced, “Partha […]