Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned trader Barik Biswas as part of its investigation into the ration scam in West Bengal, said the central investigation agency officials on Monday.The rice trader has been asked to appear at the ED’s CGO Complex office in the Salt Lake area of the city on Monday afternoon. According to officials, this rice trader, Barik Biswas, is ‘close’ to former state food minister Jyotipriya Mallick.Incidentally, in August 2024, the ED condu…
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Kolkata, April 10 (IANS) The officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are conducting simultaneous raids and search operations in 12 locations in different pockets of West Bengal since Friday morning in connection with the ration distribution case.The places where the ED raids and search operations are being conducted include those in the state capital of Kolkata as well as districts like North 24 Parganas, Murshidabad, and Kolkata-adjacent, Howrah, sources aware of the development said.Amon…
Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced 291 candidates for the two-phase April elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, dropping almost all the leaders under the scanner of central agencies in various scams, while nearly a fifth of the nominees are women. There are a total of 52 women candidates, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, or around 18 per cent of the total candidates. The Chief Minister is contesting from Bhabanipur in south Kolkata, where th…
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Former heavyweight member of the West Bengal cabinet, Jyotipriya Mallick, an accused in the PDS irregularities case, who was in jail after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), wants to contest from a different Assembly constituency.Mallick is currently a Trinamool Congress legislator from the Habra constituency in North 24 Parganas district, from where he was elected for three consecutive terms in 2011, 2016, and 2021. Earlier, he was a two-time Trinamool Con…