SSC scam: Former WB Education Minister Partha Chatterjee's arrest followed after Rs 21 crore in cash and jewellery worth more than Rs 1 crore were recovered from the Kolkata residence of his close aide Arpita Mukherjee.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) member Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar took a bite out of a raw brinjal in the Lok Sabha to make a point about high LPG cost.
Chatterjee, the secretary-general of the TMC held the portfolios of commerce & industry, parliamentary affairs, information technology and electronics, and public enterprises & industrial reconstruction in the Mamata Banerjee cabinet.
The two states had in March decided to end their five-decade-old border dispute in six of the 12 contested locations along the 884.9-km boundary that often led to tensions between them.
ED personnel had on July 22 carried out raids at various places in Bengal as part of their probe into the money trail involved in a teacher recruitment scam at government-sponsored and aided schools.
Partha Chatterjee, who was the state education minister when the scam took place, was arrested after around 26 hours of grilling in connection with the probe.
The saffron party also accused Banerjee of playing “narrow politics” over central government projects with her attempts to rename them.
Mamata Banerjee was in the city to meet the Governor of West Bengal and the Chief Minister of Assam.
According to a new booklet by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, use of terms like 'jumlajeevi', 'baal buddhi', 'Covid spreader' and 'Snoopgate' and even commonly used words like 'ashamed', 'abused, 'betrayed', 'corrupt', 'drama', 'hypocrisy' and 'incompetent' will henceforth be considered unparliamentary in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
She was scheduled to visit Kolkata on July 9, but it was cancelled in the wake of the one-day national mourning as a mark of respect to former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe.
"Sinha is eminently qualified to uphold secular and democratic character of the Indian Republic and its constitutional values," the Opposition parties said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to participate in the meeting due to prior engagements.
Lashing out at the saffron camp "for trying to fan separatism" in the state, ahead of the general election in 2024, the TMC supremo maintained that all communities in north Bengal had been living in harmony for decades.
The Calcutta High Court dismissed a petition seeking suo motu cognizance of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee's criticism of a section of the judiciary at a public rally in Haldia on Saturday, stating that the comments by him do not in any way scandalize the court's authority.
Mamata Banerjee stated that central agencies should be given autonomy” to protect democracy.
TMC national spokesperson Sukhendu Sekhar Ray said the BJP government's slogan Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas' (Taking along everyone, Development for all) has turned into Sabka Sath, Sabka Sarwanash', (Taking along everyone, debacle for all).
Ripun Bora, an ex-minister of Assam Minister, quit the Congress and joined the TMC a week ago in the presence of the party's national general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee.
The Trinamool Congress on Saturday made a clean sweep winning both the Asansol Lok Sabha and the Ballygunge assembly seats in West Bengal while the Congress and the RJD bagged one constituency each in Maharashtra and Bihar in the bypolls to these seats with the BJP drawing a blank.
The party, quoting a list recently issued by the Centre, said that the eastern state has topped the chart in providing employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), giving work to 1.1 crore people in 2021-22, and has come second in generating mandays under the scheme.
In the over 20-page report, the central probe agency has also stated that the seven persons whose charred bodies were recovered from inside one of the burnt houses in Bogtui village, were assaulted before being burnt alive.
The Calcutta HC had earlier ordered a CBI investigation into the killings of the nine people at Bogtui village.
TMC’s push for the Women’s Reservation Bill is seen as a political move by the party, which is led by country's only woman Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and has the highest percentage of Women MPs in the Parliament.
Maintaining that among all major political parties the Trianmool Congress (TMC) has the maximum percentage of women MPs, he said the notice has been given for motion under Rule 168 to introduce the bill.
Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), and his wife Rujira Banerjee have been asked to depose before the investigation officer here next week, they said.
Abhishek Banerjee is the nephew of Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and is also the national secretary of the party