Calcutta HC orders CBI probe into appointment of 350 SSC Group C staff

February 16, 2022

The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe into the appointment of 350 Group C employees of School Service Commission (SSC). Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay also ordered immediate suspension of salaries of these 350 staff. He also ordered the district school inspectors to return the...

Trinamool Congress Clean Sweeps All Four Civic Bodies With Siliguri Being Big Win After 28 Years

February 15, 2022

The Trinamool Congress on Monday received a thumping victory in the elections to four municipal corporations in West Bengal - Bidhannagar, Siliguri, Chandernagore and Asansol. West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee congratulated the people of Bidhannagar, Siliguri, Chandernagore and Asansol for supporting TMC candidates. “It is...

IPAC unfollows Mamata; speculation on aunt-nephew rift

February 12, 2022

After days of speculation regarding tension between Trinamool Congress (TMC) and poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC), the organisation on Friday unfollowed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Twitter. Reports of differences between Kishor’s IPAC and senior Trinamool leaders, including Mamata, have been doing the rounds...

CBI Summons Actor And TMC MP Dev In Cow Smuggling Case

February 10, 2022

KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sent a notice to Trinamool Congress MP and actor Dev in a cattle smuggling case. The agency has ordered Dev to appear before it on February 15. The actor-MP has been instructed to visit the CBI office at Nizam Palace for questioning....

Nominations filed outside Trinamool’s final list in Diamond Harbour seat

February 10, 2022

Trinamool Congress has recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Now, it is over its pre-poll candidate in Diamond Harbour constituency. It is reported that nominations are being submitted for re-election of party candidate in TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s parliamentary constituency apart from the list...

Calcutta HC Expels 573 In SSC Recruitment ‘Scam’

February 10, 2022

The Calcutta High Court has ordered the dismissal of 573 people in a case of massive alleged corruption in Group D recruitment by the School Service Commission (SSC). Questions have been raised on whose recommendation the appointments were made. In the case, the court had earlier ordered to stop the...

MLAs Ashish Saha, Sudip Roy Barman quit BJP; may join Cong

February 8, 2022

Tripura BJP MLAs Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Saha on Monday left the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Assembly elections next year. The MLAs handed over their resignations to the Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty on Monday and said that the Speaker had accepted the letter. According to sources,...

Rift Between Trinamool Congress, Ipac Over List Of Municipal Poll Candidates

February 8, 2022

Tension has been brewing in Trinamool Congress since the release of list of candidates for elections to 107 municipalities, scheduled on February 27. It is also learnt that everything is not well between the party and its consulting organisation, poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s IPAC. While minister and TMC secretary general...

In Nandigram, Huji Brought Explosives From Bangladesh, Former DG Reveals In His Book

February 5, 2022

The presence of Maoists in the Nandigram movement has been repeatedly exposed. But former state police DG Dilip Mitra has revealed more sensational information in his new book. He claimed that ISI or the militant group HuJI was also in. Mitra further claimed that Pakistan had planned not only the...

Mamata Directs Officials Not To Initiate New Projects

February 4, 2022

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday directed various departments not to start new projects apart from the essential ones. Addressing an administrative meeting at Netaji Indore Stadium, the chief minister said: “The government's revenue in various sectors has declined owing to Covid pandemic in the past two years....