Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) told on Friday that the probe agency’s Kolkata Zonal Office has filed the second supplementary charge sheet against the former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress’ Secretary General, Partha Chatterjee, his close aide Arpita Mukherjee, and others before a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata on June 25 in connection with the multi-crore cash-for-school job scam. “The complaint has been f…
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Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) A complaint has been lodged against former Education Minister and ex-Trinamool Congress MLA Partha Chatterjee on charges of extortion and issuing death threats, police said on Monday. Former Kolkata Municipal Corporation councillor Ghanashree Bagh and her associates, identified as Tilak Bhattacharya and Sudip Ghosh, have also been named in the complaint on similar charges. According to the police, the incident took place in 2020, two years before Partha Chatterjee was arr…
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) Cash amounting to Rs 1.44 crore was recovered from a private English-medium school in Kanchrapara in North 24 Parganas district, police said on Thursday.The recovery was made after a search operation was launched at the school on Wednesday night. Till 4 30 a.m. on Thursday, 1 crore 44 lakh rupees were found. Apart from the cash, a packet of condoms was also found in a cupboard in the school’s ‘sick room’, said the police.The police said two people have been arrested in co…
Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) The Suvendu Adhikari government’s decision to appoint two ministers separately for the school education and higher education departments in the recent portfolio distribution has been prompted by multiple goals, insiders from the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Thursday.While journalist-turned-politician Jagannath Chattopadhyay has been made the state higher education minister, veteran BJP legislator Deepak Burman is the new school education mi…
Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) Two Trinamool Congress leaders, a sitting councillor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and a former MLA, have been arrested on various charges, including extortion and corruption, the police said on Sunday.The sitting Trinamool councillor who was arrested on Saturday is Bappaditya Dasgupta, the councillor from ward number 101 of the KMC. Officers from Patuli police station arrested him on charges of extortion. After taking Bappaditya to the police station, an angr…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) The new and the ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday announced the state government’s decision to clear hurdles for the commencement of a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teachers in Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA)-run schools in the Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong regions in the northern zone of West Bengal.Although the Calcutta High Court had earlier directed a CBI p…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) Sajal Ghosh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s newly elected legislator from Baranagar Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district and a party Councillor in Kolkata Municipal Corporation, on Saturday hinted at the possibilities of the deletion of chapters on land movement at Singur in Hooghly district and Nandigram in East Midnapore district spearheaded by the Trinamool Congress during the former Chief Minister late Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Left F…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) With the first Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in West Bengal having already taken charge with Suvendu Adhikari as the first BJP Chief Minister, Siddhartha Majumdar, the chairman of the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), an autonomous body under the State Education Department, has tendered his resignation on Tuesday.The WBSSC has faced scrutiny due to the multi-crore cash-for-school job scandal that occurred during the previous Trinamool Congress governme…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) In February 2019, Mamata Banerjee wrote an 18-line poem titled ‘Key’, lamenting what she saw as a ‘shrinking’ democratic space under the regime at the Centre. The poem spoke of voices being stifled, of lips metaphorically locked, and of a reckoning that would one day confront those in power. It was a political message wrapped in verse — sharp, accusatory, and unambiguous in its intent. Seven years on, those very lines seem to echo differently — an uncomfortable reflecti…
Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday conducted raids at the residence of Kolkata Police Deputy Commissioner (DCP) Shantanu Sinha Biswas.The ED officials reached the DCP’s house on Fern Road in Ballygunge at 7 a.m. It is reported that a search is underway at the house.Officials said the search operation was being held in connection with the Sona Pappu syndicate case in the Ballygunge area of South Kolkata. Biswas was once the Officer-in-Charge of Kalighat police sta…